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Type Words
Synonyms district, territorial dominion, territory
Type of region
Has types possession, associated state, development, palatinate, administrative division, administrative district, enclave, residential area, goldfield, jurisdiction, trusteeship, border district, borderland, british east africa, marchland, british west africa, trust territory, territorial division, mandate, mandatory, march, residential district, city district, community, protectorate, congressional district
Type Words
Synonyms rule
Type of ascendance, control, ascendency, dominance, ascendence, ascendancy
Has types sovereignty, suzerainty, raj, paramountcy, reign
Derivation dominate


France held undisputed dominion over vast areas of Africa.
Type Words
Type of country, land, commonwealth, nation, res publica, body politic, state

Examples of dominion

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Dominion Rd is a haven for great little eateries of all ethnicities and origins.
From the nzherald.co.nz
By 1792, the whole of Malabar including Calicut came under the British dominion.
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Although it was never a dominion, it was treated as a dominion in many respects.
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It was decided that the King should act on the advice of his dominion ministers.
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But you, being ignorant of how long he will have dominion, hold another opinion.
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So what leverage does Turkey actually have over its erstwhile Ottoman dominion?
From the economist.com
It's true that a president often has little dominion over escalating pump prices.
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Photos The Sweet Science Syrup production isn't solely the dominion of Vermont.
From the washingtonpost.com
Through the first term, Cheney's dominion over foreign policy was unchallenged.
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  • Dominance or power through legal authority; "France held undisputed dominion over vast areas of Africa"; "the rule of Caesar"
  • District: a region marked off for administrative or other purposes
  • One of the self-governing nations in the British Commonwealth
  • A dominion, often Dominion, refers to one of a group of semi-autonomous polities that were nominally under British sovereignty, constituting the British Empire and British Commonwealth, from the late 19th century. ...
  • According to medieval Christian theologians, the Angels are organized into several orders, or Angelic Choirs.
  • Dominion were a British band from Thornhill, Dewsbury, that played mix of death metal and doom metal, featuring a female singer (Michelle Richfield) and two male singers (Mass Firth and Arno Cagna). The band released two albums in the late 1990s on Peaceville Records and then split up. ...
  • Dominion is a designer card game created by Donald X. Vaccarino, and published by Rio Grande Games. The game was released at Spiel 2008 in multiple languages. It was voted the best game of the fair by the Fairplay polls with a rating of 1.75 from 147 votes. ...
  • Dominion Resources Inc. , commonly referred to as Dominion, is a power and energy company headquartered in Richmond, Virginia that supplies electricity in parts of Virginia and North Carolina and supplies natural gas to parts of West Virginia, Ohio, Pennsylvania, and eastern North Carolina. ...
  • Dominion is an original novel written by Nick Walters and based on the long-running British science fiction television series Doctor Who. It features the Eighth Doctor, Sam and Fitz.