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demesne
noun as in domain
noun as in dominion
Strong matches
- ascendancy
- authorization
- bailiwick
- command
- commission
- control
- country
- district
- domain
- dominance
- domination
- empire
- enclave
- field
- government
- jurisdiction
- management
- power
- preeminence
- prepotency
- prerogative
- privilege
- property
- province
- realm
- regency
- regiment
- regimentation
- region
- reign
- rule
- seniority
- sovereignty
- sphere
- state
- supremacy
- sway
- terrain
- territory
- turf
- walk
Weak matches
noun as in estate
Weak matches
noun as in field
Strong matches
Weak matches
noun as in province
noun as in region
Strongest matches
Strong matches
Weak matches
noun as in sphere
Example Sentences
The show has also expanded outside the demesne walls.
The names on the blue and white city signs rarely memorialize the Native Americans whose lands these were, nor the Spanish missionaries and ranchers who divvied them up into demesnes more enormous than dukedoms.
And as the years progress, she gives up dreams of royalty to focus on the demesne she can control: the convent and its lands.
This was especially the case in England, where the aristocracy was more dependent on the cultivation of the demesne.
“My demesne,” he says with a grin, happy to be caught out.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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