Definitions for dominions

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dominions do·min·ion

Spelling: [duh-min-yuh n]

IPA: /dəˈmɪn yən/

Dominions is a 9 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 12 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 15 points.

You can make 183 anagrams from letters in dominions (diimnnoos).

Definitions for dominions

noun

1. the power or right of governing and controlling; sovereign authority.
2. rule; control; domination.
3. a territory, usually of considerable size, in which a single rulership holds sway.
4. lands or domains subject to sovereignty or control.
5. Government. a territory constituting a self-governing commonwealth and being one of a number of such territories united in a community of nations, or empire: formerly applied to self-governing divisions of the British Empire, as Canada and New Zealand.
6. dominions, Theology. domination (def 3).

Origin of dominions

1400-50; late Middle English Middle French Medieval Latin *dominiōn- (stem of *dominiō) lordship, equivalent to Latin domin(ium) dominium + -iōn- Examples for dominions

He had greatly enlarged his dominions, taking one country after another.

She assured me of her protection, and that she was glad of my being in her dominions.

The three dominions together engaged some 40% of the German army.

In his own dominions the voice of execration has been raised against him.

We are fairly entered within the dominions of his majesty the king of Holland.

These you behold before you are the chief warriors of my dominions.

He even offers to make a gift of his dominions to the Republic.

This was her phrase for having entered on the dominions of England.

Yet when British troops left their African, Middle Eastern, and Asian dominions, they left behind many embryonic democracies, too.

She was a wise and discreet lady and assisted her husband to govern his dominions.