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If you have a place that's all your own, somewhere real or in cyberspace that has your name all over it — literally or figuratively — it's your domain. And if you have something you really excel at, that is your domain too. You own it.

A domain used to mean only land owned by wealthy people, such as lords in the 15th century, but modern usage is much wider, or has a broader domain in the English language. On the Internet, a domain is a space with a specific address, but a domain also can have a physical address, like a home. It can be a specialty, too, as in, "The main domain of the art school was sculpture," or "She was so good at math that algebra became her domain."

PRIMARY MEANINGS OF: domain

1	n	a particular environment or walk of life
2	n	(mathematics) the set of values of the independent variable for which a function is defined

FULL DEFINITIONS OF: domain

n a particular environment or walk of life

Synonyms:: area, arena, field, orbit, sphere

Types:: show 10 types...; hide 10 types...; distaff
the sphere of work by women; front
a sphere of activity involving effort; kingdom, land, realm
a domain in which something is dominant; lap
an area of control or responsibility; political arena, political sphere
a sphere of intense political activity; preserve
a domain that seems to be specially reserved for someone; province, responsibility
the proper sphere or extent of your activities; lotus land, lotusland
an idyllic realm of contentment and self-indulgence; lap of the gods
beyond human control or responsibility; ecclesiastical province
the district within the jurisdiction of an archbishop or a metropolitan or one of the territorial divisions of an ecclesiastical order

Type of:: environment
the totality of surrounding conditions

n territory over which rule or control is exercised

“his domain extended into Europe”

Synonyms:: demesne, land

Examples:: show 9 examples...; hide 9 examples...; Numidia
an ancient kingdom (later a Roman province) in North Africa in an area corresponding roughly to present-day Algeria; Roman Empire
an empire established by Augustus in 27 BC and divided in AD 395 into the Western Roman Empire and the eastern or Byzantine Empire; at its peak lands in Europe and Africa and Asia were ruled by ancient Rome; Cambria
one of the four countries that make up the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland; during Roman times the region was known as Cambria; Egyptian Empire
an ancient empire to the west of Israel; centered on the Nile River and ruled by a Pharaoh; figured in many events described in the Old Testament; Persian Empire
an empire in southern Asia created by Cyrus the Great in the 6th century BC and destroyed by Alexander the Great in the 4th century BC; Principality of Monaco
a constitutional monarchy in a tiny enclave on the French Riviera; Russia
a former empire in eastern Europe and northern Asia created in the 14th century with Moscow as the capital; powerful in the 17th and 18th centuries under Peter the Great and Catherine the Great when Saint Petersburg was the capital; overthrown by revolution in 1917; Muscovy
a Russian principality in the 13th to 16th centuries; Moscow was the capital; Ottoman Empire
a Turkish sultanate of southwestern Asia and northeastern Africa and southeastern Europe; created by the Ottoman Turks in the 13th century and lasted until the end of World War I; although initially small it expanded until it superseded the Byzantine Empire

Types:: show 14 types...; hide 14 types...; archduchy
the domain controlled by an archduke or archduchess; barony
the domain of a baron; duchy, dukedom
the domain controlled by a duke or duchess; earldom
the domain controlled by an earl or count or countess; emirate
the domain controlled by an emir; empire, imperium
the domain ruled by an emperor or empress; the region over which imperial dominion is exercised; fiefdom
the domain controlled by a feudal lord; grand duchy
the domain controlled by a grand duke or grand duchess; viscounty
the domain controlled by a viscount or viscountess; khanate
the realm of a khan; kingdom, realm
the domain ruled by a king or queen; princedom, principality
territory ruled by a prince; sheikdom, sheikhdom
the domain ruled by a sheik; suzerainty
the domain of a suzerain

Type of:: region
a large indefinite location on the surface of the Earth

n people in general; especially a distinctive group of people with some shared interest

Synonyms:: world

Types:: academe, academia
the academic world; Grub Street
the world of literary hacks

Type of:: class, social class, socio-economic class, stratum
people having the same social, economic, or educational status

n the content of a particular field of knowledge

Synonyms:: knowledge base, knowledge domain

Types:: show 23 types...; hide 23 types...; bailiwick, discipline, field, field of study, study, subject, subject area, subject field
a branch of knowledge; realm, region
a knowledge domain that you are interested in or are communicating about; scientific knowledge
knowledge accumulated by systematic study and organized by general principles; occultism
the study of the supernatural; communication theory, communications
the discipline that studies the principles of transmiting information and the methods by which it is delivered (as print or radio or television etc.); major
the principal field of study of a student at a university; frontier
an undeveloped field of study; a topic inviting research and development; genealogy
the study or investigation of ancestry and family history; allometry
the study of the relative growth of a part of an organism in relation to the growth of the whole; bibliotics
the scientific study of documents and handwriting etc. especially to determine authorship or authenticity; ology
an informal word (abstracted from words with this ending) for some unidentified branch of knowledge; science, scientific discipline
a particular branch of scientific knowledge; architecture
the discipline dealing with the principles of design and construction and ornamentation of fine buildings; applied science, engineering, engineering science, technology
the discipline dealing with the art or science of applying scientific knowledge to practical problems; futuristics, futurology
the study or prediction of future developments on the basis of existing conditions; arts, humanistic discipline, humanities, liberal arts
studies intended to provide general knowledge and intellectual skills (rather than occupational or professional skills); divinity, theology
the rational and systematic study of religion and its influences and of the nature of religious truth; military science
the discipline dealing with the principles of warfare; escapology
the study of methods of escaping (especially as a form of entertainment); graphology
the study of handwriting (especially as an indicator of the writer's character or disposition); numerology
the study of the supposed occult influence of numbers on human affairs; protology
the study of origins and first things; theogony
the study of the origins and genealogy of the gods

Type of:: cognitive content, content, mental object
the sum or range of what has been perceived, discovered, or learned

n (mathematics) the set of values of the independent variable for which a function is defined

Synonyms:: domain of a function

Type of:: set
(mathematics) an abstract collection of numbers or symbols

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