Hypertext Webster Gateway: "Realm"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Realm \Realm\, n. [OE. realme, ream, reaume, OF. reialme,
roialme, F. royaume, fr. (assumed) LL. regalimen, from L.
regalis royal. See {Regal}.]
1. A royal jurisdiction or domain; a region which is under
the dominion of a king; a kingdom.
The absolute master of realms on which the sun
perpetually alone. --Motley.
2. Hence, in general, province; region; country; domain;
department; division; as, the realm of fancy.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
realm
n 1: a domain in which something is dominant; "the untroubled
kingdom of reason"; "a land of make-believe"; "the rise
of the realm of cotton in the south" [syn: {kingdom}, {land}]
2: a knowledge domain that you are interested in or are
communicating about; "it was a limited domain of
discourse"; "here we enter the region of opinion"; "the
realm of the occult" [syn: {domain}, {region}]
3: the domain ruled by a king or queen [syn: {kingdom}]
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