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TERRITORY
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
An area of knowledge or interest
Example:
his questions covered a lot of territory
Classified under:
Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents
Hypernyms ("territory" is a kind of...):
area (a subject of study)
Sense 2
Meaning:
The geographical area under the jurisdiction of a sovereign state
Example:
American troops were stationed on Japanese soil
Synonyms:
Classified under:
Nouns denoting spatial position
Hypernyms ("territory" is a kind of...):
geographic area; geographic region; geographical area; geographical region (a demarcated area of the Earth)
Derivation:
territorial (of or relating to a territory)
Sense 3
Meaning:
A region marked off for administrative or other purposes
Synonyms:
district; dominion; territorial dominion; territory
Classified under:
Nouns denoting spatial position
Hypernyms ("territory" is a kind of...):
region (a large indefinite location on the surface of the Earth)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "territory"):
British West Africa (the former British territories of western Africa, including Nigeria, Cameroon, Gambia, Togo, Sierra Leone, and the Gold Coast)
British East Africa (the former British territories of eastern Africa, including Kenya, Tanganyika, Uganda, and Zanzibar)
trust territory; trusteeship (a dependent country; administered by another country under the supervision of the United Nations)
possession (a territory that is controlled by a ruling state)
associated state; protectorate (a state or territory partly controlled by (but not a possession of) a stronger state but autonomous in internal affairs; protectorates are established by treaty)
mandate; mandatory (a territory surrendered by Turkey or Germany after World War I and put under the tutelage of some other European power until they are able to stand by themselves)
jurisdiction (in law; the territory within which power can be exercised)
goldfield (a district where gold is mined)
administrative district; administrative division; territorial division (a district defined for administrative purposes)
border district; borderland; march; marchland (district consisting of the area on either side of a border or boundary of a country or an area)
city district (a district of a town or city)
congressional district (a territorial division of a state; entitled to elect one member to the United States House of Representatives)
development (a district that has been developed to serve some purpose)
enclave (an enclosed territory that is culturally distinct from the foreign territory that surrounds it)
palatinate (a territory under the jurisdiction of a count palatine)
community; residential area; residential district (a district where people live; occupied primarily by private residences)
Instance hyponyms:
Louisiana Purchase (territory in the western United States purchased from France in 1803 for $15 million; extends from the Mississippi River to the Rocky Mountains and from the Gulf of Mexico to Canada)
Kordofan (a mountainous province of central Sudan)
Darfur (an impoverished region of western Sudan)
Catalonia (a region of northeastern Spain)
Castile; Castilla (a region of central Spain; a former kingdom that comprised most of modern Spain and united with Aragon to form Spain in 1479)
Aragon (a region of northeastern Spain; a former kingdom that united with Castile in 1479 to form Spain (after the marriage of Ferdinand V and Isabella I))
American Samoa; AS; Eastern Samoa (a United States territory on the eastern part of the island of Samoa)
KwaZulu-Natal; Natal (a region of eastern South Africa on the Indian Ocean)
Malaya; Peninsular Malaysia; West Malaysia (the region of Malaysia on the Malay Peninsula; shares a land border with Thailand to the north)
East Malaysia (the part of Malaysia that is on the island of Borneo)
Lothian Region (a district in southeast central Scotland (south side of the Firth of Forth) and the location of Edinburgh)
Galloway (a district in southwestern Scotland)
Lake District; Lakeland (a popular tourist area in northwestern England including England's largest lake and highest mountain)
Acre (a territory of western Brazil bordering on Bolivia and Peru)
Northern Mariana Islands; Northern Marianas (a self-governing territory comprising all of the Mariana Islands except Guam)
Northern Territory (a territory in north central Australia)
Yukon; Yukon Territory (a territory in northwestern Canada; site of the Klondike gold rush in the 1890s)
Nunavut (an Arctic territory in northern Canada created in 1999 and governed solely by the Inuit; includes the eastern part of what was the Northwest Territories and most of the islands of the Arctic Archipelago)
Northwest Territories (a large territory in northwestern Canada; part is now Nunavut)
Acadia (the French-speaking part of the Canadian Maritime Provinces)
Papal States (the temporal dominions belonging to the pope (especially in central Italy))
Boeotia (a district of ancient Greece to the northwest of Athens)
Attica (the territory of Athens in ancient Greece where the Ionic dialect was spoken)
Athos; Mount Athos (an autonomous area in northeastern Greece that is the site of several Greek Orthodox monasteries founded in the tenth century)
Palatinate; Pfalz (a territory in southwestern Germany formerly ruled by the counts palatine)
Derivation:
territorial (of or relating to a territory)
Context examples:
An Arctic territory in northern Canada created in 1999 and governed solely by the Inuit; includes the eastern part of what was the Northwest Territories and most of the islands of the Arctic Archipelago.
(Nunavut, NCI Thesaurus)
It is justifiable to enter into war against our nearest ally, when one of his towns lies convenient for us, or a territory of land, that would render our dominions round and complete.
(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)
For a time, it seemed that the spotted owl was also threatened by competition from the faster-breeding barred owl, which had moved west into its territory.
(Researchers find preserving spotted owl habitat may not require a tradeoff with wildfire risk after all, Wikinews)
There exist twenty-five territories, including sovereign states, overseas departments and dependencies.
(Caribbean, NCI Thesaurus)
Denotes a person with ethnic origins in the Semitic people originally from the Arabian peninsula and surrounding territories in the Middle East and northern Africa.
(Arab, NCI Thesaurus)
A collective name for the West Bank and the Gaza Strip, two territories in Palestine.
(Palestinian Territory, Occupied, NCI Thesaurus)
I was exploring virgin territory.
(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)
Competition comes with the territory.
(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)
On the cliffs on either side might also be seen the flash of arms and the waving of pennons where the force of Navarre looked down upon the army of strangers who passed through their territories.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Several research teams will use Webb to explore the mysterious nature of brown dwarfs, looking for insight into both star formation and exoplanet atmospheres, and the hazy territory in-between where the brown dwarf itself exists.
(NASA’s Webb Telescope to Investigate Mysterious Brown Dwarfs, NASA)
