What does territory mean?
Definitions for territory
ˈtɛr ɪˌtɔr i, -ˌtoʊr iter·ri·to·ry
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Princeton's WordNet
district, territory, territorial dominion, dominionnoun
a region marked off for administrative or other purposes
territorynoun
an area of knowledge or interest
"his questions covered a lot of territory"
territory, soilnoun
the geographical area under the jurisdiction of a sovereign state
"American troops were stationed on Japanese soil"
Wiktionary
territorynoun
A large extent or tract of land; a region; a country; a district.
territorynoun
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.
territorynoun
An area that an animal of a particular species consistently defends against its conspecifics.
Etymology: territorium, from terra the earth
Samuel Johnson's Dictionary
Territorynoun
Land; country; dominion; district.
Etymology: territorium, law Latin; territoire, Fr.
Linger not in my territories longer than swiftest expedition will give thee time to leave our royal court. William Shakespeare.
They erected a house within their own territory, half way between their fort and the town. John Hayward.
He saw wide territory spread
Before him, towns, and rural works between. John Milton.Ne’er did the Turk invade our territory,
But fame and terror doubl’d still their files. John Denham.Arts and sciences took their rise, and flourished only in those small territories where the people were free. Jonathan Swift.
Wikipedia
Territory
A territory is an administrative division, usually an area that is under the jurisdiction of a sovereign state. In most countries, a territory is an organized division of an area that is controlled by a country but is not formally developed into, or incorporated into, a political unit of the country that is of equal status to other political units that may often be referred to by words such as "provinces" or "regions" or "states". In international politics, a territory is usually either the total area from which a state may extract power resources or any non-sovereign geographic area which has come under the authority of another government; which has not been granted the powers of self-government normally devolved to secondary territorial divisions; or both.
ChatGPT
territory
A territory is a specific geographic area, often under the jurisdiction of a particular government, country or state, marked by boundaries or borders. It can also refer to an area of land, sea or sky inhabited or controlled by a particular group, country, or person. In animal behavior, territory refers to the area that an animal or group of animals defends against others of the same species.
Webster Dictionary
Territorynoun
a large extent or tract of land; a region; a country; a district
Territorynoun
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; as, the territory of a State; the territories of the East India Company
Territorynoun
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
Chambers 20th Century Dictionary
Territory
ter′i-tō-ri, n. the extent of land around or belonging to a city or state: domain: (U.S.) a portion of the country not yet admitted as a State into the Union, and still under a provisional government.—adj. Territō′rial, pertaining to territory: limited to a district.—v.t. Territō′rialise, to enlarge by addition of territory: to reduce to the state of a territory.—ns. Territō′rialism, a theory of church government according to which the ruler of a country has the natural right to rule also over the ecclesiastical affairs of his people; Territorial′ity, the possession of territory.—adv. Territō′rially.—adj. Terr′itoried, possessed of territory. [L. territorium—terra, the earth.]
Dictionary of Nautical Terms
territory
The protection of neutral territory operates to the restitution of enemy's property captured within its limits. Since the introduction of fire-arms that distance has usually been recognized to be almost three English miles.
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Spoken Corpus Frequency
Rank popularity for the word 'territory' in Spoken Corpus Frequency: #3131
Nouns Frequency
Rank popularity for the word 'territory' in Nouns Frequency: #1010
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Numerology
Chaldean Numerology
The numerical value of territory in Chaldean Numerology is: 1
Pythagorean Numerology
The numerical value of territory in Pythagorean Numerology is: 4
Examples of territory in a Sentence
[W]hat the Ukrainians are interested in is getting the Russians out of their sovereign territory, and I think that’s probably going to be their going-in point, but I’ll let the Ukrainians speak for themselves.
I would look at the following variables, which happens to be the same ones that the group I was just talking about, retail sales, payroll, employment, consumer spending, industrial production, all of those have not been flashing red, all of those are not in recessionary territory, now, if you're asking me to look around a corner and say where the economy is going to be, I got to tell you that everybody's crystal ball is a bit cracked right now, and I think the uncertainty out there makes it tough.
We flew the perimeter of The Calf Canyon Fire, and it's an astounding amount of territory and the impact on families that have been there for so long was so consequential.
State courts have proven to be surprisingly fertile territory for this, courts in both Republican states and Democratic states have been willing to strike down maps from the party in charge.
Serbian Prime Minister Aleksandar Vucic:
It is impossible to determine how many refugees have already reached European shores and are somewhere between Greece and Germany, but camps throughout The Balkans, as well as Western Europe, are packed with refugees in increasingly tense situations. Related ImageExpand / ContractPolice in Macedonia hold back hordes of refugees hoping to pass through The Balkans en route to Western Europe. ( FoxNews.com) After Hungary took action, refugees streamed into Croatia from Serbia, prompting Croatia to close its border and trapping some 11,000 inside Serbia. Refugees were still working their way through Macedonia and into Serbia, where they remained stuck at the Hungarian border as Serbian and Hungarian officials traded terse statements. Serbian Prime Minister Aleksandar Vucic accused Hungarian police of lobbing tear gas across the border and urged European Union to condemn the brutal behavior of the Hungarian police to refugees and media workers. Serbia itself can protect its territory and national dignity, and, if necessary, from the European Union, we will protect the European values.
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- إقْليمArabic
- əraziAzerbaijani
- এলাকাBengali
- territoriCatalan, Valencian
- territurialeCorsican
- územíCzech
- TerritoriumGerman
- έδαφοςGreek
- teritorioEsperanto
- territorioSpanish
- lurraldeBasque
- قلمرو, سرزمينPersian
- alue, reviiri, territorioFinnish
- territoireFrench
- tìr, dùthaich, talamhScottish Gaelic
- territorioGalician
- שטחHebrew
- प्रदेशHindi
- տարածքArmenian
- territorioInterlingua
- teritoriIndonesian
- territorioItalian
- 領土, 地域Japanese
- ტერიტორიაზეGeorgian
- ಪ್ರದೇಶವನ್ನುKannada
- 준주, 영토Korean
- territoriumLatin
- Territorium, TerritoireLuxembourgish, Letzeburgesch
- teritorijaLatvian
- whaituaMāori
- wilayahMalay
- grondgebied, territoriumDutch
- terytorium, rewirPolish
- territórioPortuguese
- teritoriuRomanian
- территорияRussian
- územieSlovak
- territorAlbanian
- revir, territoriumSwedish
- eneo, wilayaSwahili
- பிரதேசம்Tamil
- భూభాగంTelugu
- teritoryoTagalog
- lãnh thổVietnamese
- 领土Chinese
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