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dominion

n.

The acknowledged right to govern
authority, seniority, jurisdiction, control, power, rule, sway, authorization, reign, ascendancy, sovereignty, supremacy, mastership, lordship, prerogative, privilege, regency, commission, empire; see also administration 1, power 2.
Antonyms anarchy*, subjugation, bondage.
Actual control
management, control, domination; see administration 1, government 1.
A governed area
domain, territory, realm, kingdom; see area 2, nation 1, territory 2. See syn. study at power.

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Another word for dominion

noun

The right and power to command, decide, rule, or judge:
authority, command, control, domination, jurisdiction, mastery, might, power, prerogative, sovereignty, sway. (Informal) say-so. See over
The fact of possessing or the legal right to possess something:
ownership, possession, proprietorship, title. See owned
The act of exercising controlling power or the condition of being so controlled:
command, control, dominance, domination, mastery, reign, rule, sway. See over

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Having thus extended his dominion he became king of Ireland in 915.
The remainder of the population is chiefly made up of English-speaking people horn the other provinces of the Dominion, from the United States, from England and Scotland and the north of Ireland.
In the extent and importance of her colonial dominion France is second only to Great Britain.
In that year the newly formed Dominion of Canada bought from the company its territorial and.
It was precisely at this time that Flanders, and gradually the other feudal states of the Netherlands, by marriage, purchase, treachery or force, fell under the dominion of the house of Burgundy.

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