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REALM
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A knowledge domain that you are interested in or are communicating about
Example:
the realm of the occult
Synonyms:
realm; region
Classified under:
Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents
Hypernyms ("realm" is a kind of...):
domain; knowledge base; knowledge domain (the content of a particular field of knowledge)
Sense 2
Meaning:
The domain ruled by a king or queen
Synonyms:
kingdom; realm
Classified under:
Nouns denoting spatial position
Hypernyms ("realm" is a kind of...):
demesne; domain; land (territory over which rule or control is exercised)
Instance hyponyms:
Numidia (an ancient kingdom (later a Roman province) in North Africa in an area corresponding roughly to present-day Algeria)
Sense 3
Meaning:
A domain in which something is dominant
Example:
the rise of the realm of cotton in the south
Synonyms:
kingdom; land; realm
Classified under:
Nouns denoting stable states of affairs
Hypernyms ("realm" is a kind of...):
area; arena; domain; field; orbit; sphere (a particular environment or walk of life)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "realm"):
lotus land; lotusland (an idyllic realm of contentment and self-indulgence)
Context examples:
I had learned to look more closely at life as it was lived, to recognize that there were such things as facts in the world, to emerge from the realm of mind and idea and to place certain values on the concrete and objective phases of existence.
(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)
NIH Emphasis Area — In the realm of genetic medicine, the rapid progress of the Human Genome Project, a growing understanding of the genomes of other species, and new methods for the manipulation of genes are swiftly changing concepts of disease and possibilities for its control.
(Genetic Medicine, NCI Thesaurus)
A five-year, $48 million program which seeks to stimulate development of radically new technologies in cancer care that can transform what is now impossible into the realm of the possible for detecting, diagnosing, and intervening in cancer at its earliest stages of development.
(NCI Unconventional Innovations Program, NCI Thesaurus)
On my affording an opportunity, through the medium of the currency of the realm, of the allaying, at a later period, this beneficial evil, one of the men remarked:—That 'ere 'ouse, guv'nor, is the rummiest I ever was in.
(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)
Similar to Voyager 1 and 2's historic observations, New Horizons also is on a path toward potential discoveries in the Kuiper Belt, which is a disc-shaped region of icy objects past the orbit of Neptune, and other unexplored realms of the outer solar system and beyond.
(NASA Pluto-Bound Spacecraft Crosses Neptune's Orbit, NASA)
That minister was galbet, or admiral of the realm, very much in his master’s confidence, and a person well versed in affairs, but of a morose and sour complexion.
(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)
The new moon on February 23 will encourage talks about your career, but this time, the conversation will move into the confidential realm.
(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)
In the meantime he drifted, resting and recuperating after the long traverse he had made through the realm of knowledge.
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
My hopes of being numbered in the band who have merged all ambitions in the glorious one of bettering their race—of carrying knowledge into the realms of ignorance—of substituting peace for war—freedom for bondage—religion for superstition—the hope of heaven for the fear of hell?
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
An interview with a surly gatekeeper and a surlier foreman, both of whom were appeased with the coin of the realm, put me on the track of Bloxam; he was sent for on my suggesting that I was willing to pay his day's wages to his foreman for the privilege of asking him a few questions on a private matter.
(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)
