Territory

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  • noun. undefined
  • noun. An area of land; a region.
  • noun. The land and waters under the jurisdiction of a government.
  • noun. A political subdivision of a country.
  • noun. A geographic region, such as a colonial possession, that is dependent on an external government.
  • noun. undefined
  • noun. A subdivision of the United States that is not a state and is administered by an appointed or elected governor and elected legislature.
  • noun. A similarly organized political subdivision of Canada or Australia.
  • noun. An area for which a person is responsible as a representative or agent.
  • noun. The area of a field defended by a specified team.
  • noun. An area occupied by a single animal, mating pair, or group and often vigorously defended against intruders, especially those of the same species.
  • noun. A sphere of action or interest; a province. synonym: field.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • noun. The extent or compass of land and the waters thereof within the bounds or belonging to the jurisdiction of any sovereign, state, city, or other body; any separate tract of land as belonging to a state; dominion; sometimes, also, a domain or piece of land belonging to an individual.
  • noun. Any extensive tract, region, district, or domain: as, an unexplored territory in Africa.
  • noun. [capitalized] In the United States, an organized division of the country, not admitted to the complete rights of Statehood (see state, 13).
  • noun. Synonyms and Quarter, province.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • noun. A large extent or tract of land; a region; a country; a district.
  • noun. The extent of land belonging to, or under the dominion of, a prince, state, or other form of government; often, a tract of land lying at a distance from the parent country or from the seat of government.
  • noun. In the United States, a portion of the country not included within the limits of any State, and not yet admitted as a State into the Union, but organized with a separate legislature, under a Territorial governor and other officers appointed by the President and Senate of the United States. In Canada, a similarly organized portion of the country not yet formed into a Province.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • noun. A large extent or tract of land; a region; a country; a district.
  • noun. A geographic area under control of a single governing entity such as state or municipality; an area whose borders are determined by the scope of political power rather than solely by natural features such as rivers and ridges.
  • noun. An area that an animal of a particular species consistently defends against its conspecifics.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • noun. an area of knowledge or interest
  • noun. a region marked off for administrative or other purposes
  • noun. the geographical area under the jurisdiction of a sovereign state
  • Word Usage
    "Both areas were then organized as one territory, Xinjiang (literally, “new territory”), with its capital at Urumchi; it became a province in 1884."
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