- an area of knowledge or activity; especially one that somebody is responsible for
- Financial matters are her domain.
- Physics used to be very much a male domain.
- things that happen outside the domain of the home
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective- private
- public
- Internet
- …
- name
- registration
- in a/the domain
- within a/the domain
- outside a/the domain
- …
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- (computing) a set of websites on the internet that end with the same group of letters, for example ‘.com’, ‘.org’
- top-level domains
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective- private
- public
- Internet
- …
- name
- registration
- in a/the domain
- within a/the domain
- outside a/the domain
- …
- lands owned or ruled by a particular person, government, etc., especially in the past
- The Spice Islands were within the Spanish domains.
- (mathematics) the range of possible values of a particular variableTopics Maths and measurementc2
Word Originlate Middle English (denoting heritable or landed property): from French domaine, alteration (by association with Latin dominus ‘lord’) of Old French demeine ‘belonging to a lord’, from Latin dominicus, from dominus ‘lord, master’.
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