dominion
noun/dəˈmɪnjən/
/dəˈmɪnjən/
- [uncountable] dominion (over somebody/something) (literary) authority to rule; control
- Man has dominion over the natural world.
- Soon the whole country was under his sole dominion.
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- [countable] (formal) an area controlled by one political leader
- the vast dominions of the Roman Empire
- (often Dominion)[countable] (in the past) any of the countries of the British Commonwealth that had their own government compare colony, protectorate
Word OriginMiddle English: via Old French from medieval Latin dominio(n-), from Latin dominium, from dominus ‘lord, master’.
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