| Main Entry: | area |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | region, district |
Synonyms: |
belt, block, city, county, division, domain, dominion, enclosure, field, kingdom, locality, neck of the woods, neighborhood, parcel, patch, plot, precinct, principality, quarter, section, sector, sphere, square, state, stretch, territory, township, tract, turf, vicinity, ward, zone |
| Main Entry: | kingdom |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | historically, an area ruled by a monarch |
Synonyms: |
commonwealth, country, county, crown, division, domain, dominion, dynasty, empire, field, lands, monarchy, nation, possessions, principality, province, realm, reign, rule, scepter, sovereignty, sphere, state, suzerainty, sway, territory, throne, tract |
| Main Entry: | nation |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | country with its own government |
Synonyms: |
body politic, commonwealth, community, democracy, domain, dominion, empire, land, monarchy, people, populace, population, principality, public, race, realm, republic, society, sovereignty, state, tribe, union |
| Notes: | country really refers to geographical characteristics while nation refers to political and social characteristics; country comes from Latin contrata (terra) 'the landscape in front of one, the landscape lying opposite to the view' and nation is from Latin nation-/natio 'race, class of person' a nation is made up of states - and a country is a nation defined geographically |
| Main Entry: | realm |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | area of responsibility or rule |
Synonyms: |
branch, compass, country, department, dimension, domain, dominion, empire, expanse, extent, field, ground, kingdom, land, monarchy, neck of the woods, neighborhood, orbit, place, principality, province, purview, radius, range, reach, region, scope, sphere, state, stomping grounds, sweep, territory, turf*, world, zone |
| Main Entry: | settlement |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | community |
Synonyms: |
colonization, colony, encampment, establishment, foundation, habitation, hamlet, inhabitancy, occupancy, occupation, outpost, plantation, principality, residence |
| Main Entry: | supremacy |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | total domination |
Synonyms: |
absolute rule, ascendancy, authority, command, control, dominance, dominion, driver's seat, paramountcy, power, predominance, preeminence, preponderance, prepotence, primacy, principality, sovereignty, superiority, supreme authority, sway, transcendence |
Antonyms: |
subservience |
| Main Entry: | supremacy |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
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Adjectives: |
beyond compare, beyond comparison, crowning, culminating, dioristically, distinguished, egregious, enlarged, exceeding, exemplary, eximious, first, great, greater, greatest, higher, incomparable, increased, inexsuperable, inimitable, insigne, invictive, major, matchless, more than a match for, nonesuch, nonpareil, palmary, paramount, peerless, preeminent, pukka, ratherest, second to none, signate, skookum, sovereign, superior, superlative, supreme, transcendent, transcendental, ultra, unapproached, unequaled, unparagoned, unparalleled, unrivaled, unsurpassed, utmost, vaulting, without parallel
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