realm
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: rĕlm
ipa: /ɹɛlm/
ipa: /rɛːm/
ipa: /rɛlm/
rhymes: -ɛlm
Forms: form: realms
form: realme
Etymology: From Middle English rewme, realme, reaume, from Old French reaume, realme, reialme (“kingdom”), of unclear origins. A postulated *rēgālimen (“domain, kingdom”), Late Latin or Vulgar Latin cross of regimen with rēgālis is usually cited.
The modern spelling predominates from around 1600. The modern pronunciation with /l/ is either a spelling pronunciation or influenced by the etymology.
Senses: examples: text: And, of this island realm, he and his companion were the undisputed sovereigns.
ref: 1874, Horatio Alger, “Chapter XXXI”, in Brave and Bold:
text: 1913, Leslie Alexander Toke, Catholic Encyclopedia, "St. Dunstan",
Then seeing his life was threatened he fled the realm and crossed over to Flanders, […]
topics: law
glosses: A territory or state, as ruled by an absolute authority, especially by a king; a kingdom.
topics: fantasy
law
glosses: A territory or state, as ruled by an absolute authority, especially by a king; a kingdom.
An otherworldly dimension or domain — magical, ethereal, or otherwise.
qualifier: roleplaying games
topics: law
glosses: A territory or state, as ruled by an absolute authority, especially by a king; a kingdom.
The spiritual state of which God is the head; the Kingdom of Heaven.
examples: text: the realm of physics
text: the realm of corporate governance
text: Why should we despise anything in the realm of Buddha?
ref: 1907, Tada Kanai, “The World and How to Pass Through It”, in Arthur Lloyd, transl., Seven Buddhist Sermons:
text: One thing more which the scientific man does is to accord primacy to that realm of truth which is primary in importance.
ref: 1922, Judson Eber Conant, “Truth Must be Classified Scientifically”, in The Church The Schools and Evolution:
text: At home in Moscow, Mikhail Sergeyevitch Gorbachev, who had launched a campaign to rejuvenate the Soviet realm […]
ref: 2006 November 22, Christian Neef, “Diary of a Collapsing Superpower”, in Spiegel Magazine:
text: In order to grant the rich these pleasures, the social contract is reconfigured. […] The public realm is privatised, the regulations restraining the ultra-wealthy and the companies they control are abandoned, and Edwardian levels of inequality are almost fetishised.
ref: 2013 May 17, George Monbiot, “Money just makes the rich suffer”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 188, number 23, page 19:
glosses: A sphere of knowledge or of influence; a domain.
topics: biology
ecology
natural-sciences
glosses: A primary zoogeographical division of the earth's surface.
topics: biology
microbiology
natural-sciences
taxonomy
virology
glosses: A taxonomic rank in the phylogeny of viruses, higher than kingdoms.
glosses: A region or zone forming part of a cosmological system.
Synonyms: sense: a territory or state
word: country
sense: a territory or state
word: land
sense: a territory or state
word: kingdom
sense: a sphere of activity or influence
word: field
sense: a sphere of activity or influence
word: province
Derived terms: abjuration of the realm
abjure the realm
abstract realm
coin of the realm
Commonwealth realm
custom of the realm
Eastern Realm
experience realm
floristic realm
hell realm
Ice Realm
Indomalayan realm
interrealm
in the realm of shades
Northern Realm
Oriental realm
peer of the realm
realmless
realmlessness
realmlet
realm of fantasy
realm of possibility
realm of the dead
Schengen realm
shadow realm
Snow Realm
Southern Realm
unrealmed
Western Realm