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territory
noun
1 territory
A region marked off for administrative or other purposes.
synonyms: district, dominion, territorial dominion.
Roget 780:
property,
possession,
suum cuique [Lat.],
meum et tuum [Lat.].
ownership,
proprietorship,
lordship;
seignority†;
empire
etc.
(dominion)
737.
interest,
stake,
estate,
right,
title,
claim,
demand,
holding;
tenure
etc.
(possession)
777;
vested interest,
contingent interest,
beneficial interest,
equitable interest;
use,
trust,
benefit;
legal estate,
equitable estate;
seizin [Law],
seisin [Law].
absolute interest,
paramount estate,
freehold;
fee tail,
fee simple;
estate in fee,
estate in tail,
estate tail;
estate in tail male,
estate in tail female,
estate in tail general.
limitation,
term,
lease,
settlement,
strict settlement,
particular estate;
estate for life,
estate for years,
estate pur autre vie [Fr.];
remainder,
reversion,
expectancy,
possibility.
dower,
dowry,
jointure†,
appanage,
inheritance,
heritage,
patrimony,
alimony;
legacy
etc.
(gift)
784;
Falcidian law,
paternal estate,
thirds.
assets,
belongings,
means,
resources,
circumstances;
wealth
etc.
803;
money
etc.
800;
what one is worth,
what one will cut up for;
estate and effects.
landed property,
landed real estate property;
realty;
land,
lands;
tenements;
hereditaments;
corporeal hereditaments,
incorporeal hereditaments;
acres;
ground
etc.
(earth)
342;
acquest†,
messuage,
toft†.
territory,
state,
kingdom,
principality,
realm,
empire,
protectorate,
sphere of influence.
manor,
honor,
domain,
demesne;
farm,
plantation,
hacienda;
allodium
etc.
(free)
748†;
fief,
fieff†,
feoff†,
feud,
zemindary†,
dependency;
arado†,
merestead†,
ranch.
free lease-holds,
copy lease-holds;
folkland†;
chattels real;
fixtures,
plant,
heirloom;
easement;
right of common,
right of user.
personal property,
personal estate,
personal effects;
personalty,
chattels,
goods,
effects,
movables;
stock,
stock in trade;
things,
traps,
rattletraps,
paraphernalia;
equipage
etc.
633.
parcels,
appurtenances.
impedimenta;
luggage,
baggage;
bag and baggage;
pelf;
cargo,
lading.
rent roll;
income
etc.
(receipts)
810;
maul and wedges [U.S.].
patent,
copyright;
chose in action;
credit
etc.
805;
debt
etc.
806.
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Dutch: regio, gebied, district, grondgebied, rayon, werkgebied
2 territory
An area of knowledge or interest.
3 territory
The geographical area under the jurisdiction of a sovereign state.
synonym: soil.
Moby thesaurus: Kreis, Lebensraum, acres, air space, airspace, alluvion, alluvium, ally, ambit, arable land, archbishopric, archdiocese, archduchy, archdukedom, area, arrondissement, back country, bailiwick, belt, bishopric, body politic, borough, buffer state, canton, captive nation, champaign, chieftaincy, chieftainry, city, city-state, clay, clear space, clearance, clearing, clod, colony, commonweal, commonwealth, commune, confines, congressional district, constablewick, constituency, continental shelf, corridor, country, county, crust, demesne, departement, department, desert, diocese, dirt, distant prospect, district, division, domain, dominion, dry land, duchy, dukedom, dust, earldom, earth, electoral district, electorate, empery, empire, empty view, environs, footing, free city, freehold, glade, glebe, government, grand duchy, grassland, ground, hamlet, heartland, hinterland, hundred, kingdom, land, landholdings, lithosphere, living space, magistracy, mandant, mandate, mandated territory, mandatee, mandatory, marginal land, marl, metropolis, metropolitan area, milieu, mold, nation, nationality, neighborhood, oblast, offshore rights, okrug, open country, open space, orbit, outback, parish, part, parts, patch, place, plain, polis, polity, possession, power, prairie, precinct, precincts, premises, principality, principate, protectorate, province, puppet government, puppet regime, purlieu, purlieus, quarter, real estate, real property, realm, region, regolith, republic, riding, salient, satellite, section, sector, seneschalty, settlement, sheriffalty, sheriffwick, shire, shrievalty, sod, soil, soke, sovereign nation, space, sphere, sphere of influence, stake, stamping ground, state, steppe, subaerial deposit, subsoil, sultanate, superpower, terra, terra firma, terrain, the country, three-mile limit, toparchia, toparchy, topsoil, town, township, tract, turf, twelve-mile limit, vantage, vicinage, vicinity, village, walk, wapentake, ward, wide-open spaces, wilderness, woodland, zone ... show more.
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