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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
realm
noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
physical
▪ Consequently, the notion of force becomes a link between the metaphysical and physical realms.
▪ The philosophy of homeopathy is based on the holistic idea that the mental and physical realms are inseparable.
▪ In the physical realm, the nutrition and the mainline medicine were part of it, but more was needed.
▪ The physical realm is the realm of contingent, temporal, concrete and fuzzy particulars.
public
▪ In the public realm Christians identified themselves almost without reservation with the political and social order of the Roman empire.
▪ His was too literary, and now too deliberate, a talent to flourish in the public realm of the theatre.
▪ As civic republicanism asserts, the individual can exert a meaningful existence within society in the public realm.
whole
▪ These beautiful buildings, along with a whole realm of cultivated human intellect, are closed to the vast majority of humankind.
▪ In other words, marriage is a picture in miniature of the whole realm of the Gospel.
▪ Such feelings belong to a whole realm of events and reactions often stretching back many years to our earliest days.
■ VERB
belong
▪ They would regard the question of the initial conditions for the universe as belonging to the realm of metaphysics or religion.
▪ Undoubtedly the most modern method devised to preserve human bodies might well be said to belong to the realm of science fiction.
▪ Such feelings belong to a whole realm of events and reactions often stretching back many years to our earliest days.
▪ It would be up to the scientists to decide which is the viable option and which belongs to the realm of science fiction.
enter
▪ Here we almost enter the realms of the calligrapher.
▪ Jarmila Kratochvilova and her teammates enter the athletic realm on male terms.
▪ And then he said something which, entering the realms of my own modest experience, I knew to be wrong.
▪ This is a complex question; any complete answer necessarily leaps the boundary of facts and enters the realm of values.
▪ This starts out as sensible cost-saving and value.engineering but imperceptibly the boundary is crossed arid we enter the realm of skimping.
▪ Though he was not yet prepared to admit it, he had tried and failed to enter the realm of marriage.
▪ One seemed bolder than the others and came so close that it began to enter the realm of ordinary vision.
lie
▪ One possible source of change lies in the political realm.
move
▪ First, in talking of adding all truths at once we seem to have moved firmly into the realm of fiction.
▪ It for ever remains unalterable in form as it moves through the celestial realm in eternal rotation.
▪ Thereafter his researches had moved into the realms of fantasy.
▪ The receipts from his shows have long since moved from the realms of the fantastic into those of the ludicrous.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
this blessed plot, this earth, this realm, this England
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ new discoveries in the realm of science
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ But they do not exist in some half-real realm, neither fully actual nor merely possible.
▪ Family stories reach into even more private realms of experience to warn and instruct, however subliminally.
▪ Feminism exists outside the realm of political instrumentality, as an idea.
▪ It is true that mathematical laws, if they exist, must exist in a quasi-Platonic realm of pure thought.
▪ One possible source of change lies in the political realm.
▪ The fourth and final section takes leave of society to look at the realm of theory.
▪ Word processing on the Macintosh has always bordered on the realm of page makeup and recent announcements here only serve that view.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Realm

Realm \Realm\ (r[e^]lm), n. [OE. realme, ream, reaume, OF. reialme, roialme, F. royaume, fr. (assumed) LL. regalimen, from L. regalis royal. See Regal.]

  1. A royal jurisdiction or domain; a region which is under the dominion of a king; a kingdom.

    The absolute master of realms on which the sun perpetually shone.
    --Motley.

  2. Hence, in general, province; region; country; domain; department; division; as, the realm of fancy.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
realm

late 13c., "kingdom," from Old French reaume, probably from roiaume "kingdom," altered (by influence of Latin regalis "regal") from Gallo-Roman *regiminem, accusative form of Latin regimen "system of government, rule" (see regimen). Transferred sense "sphere of activity" is from late 14c.

Wiktionary
realm

n. An abstract sphere of influence, real or imagined.

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WordNet
realm

  1. n. a domain in which something is dominant; "the untroubled kingdom of reason"; "a land of make-believe"; "the rise of the realm of cotton in the south" [syn: kingdom, land]

  2. a knowledge domain that you are interested in or are communicating about; "it was a limited domain of discourse"; "here we enter the region of opinion"; "the realm of the occult" [syn: domain, region]

  3. the domain ruled by a king or queen [syn: kingdom]

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Realm (disambiguation)

Realm may refer to:

Realm (magazine)

Realm was a Canadian magazine that operated from 1998 to 2003. Originally focused on self-employment for twentysomethings, the magazine evolved to cover careers and education. Some companies looked to the magazine to provide insights for recruiting young workers.

Distributed across Canada, Realm was available on newsstands and university campuses. The magazine used submissions from both English and French writers, and was available in French as Sphere.

Past publishers and editors include the magazine's founder, Elisa Hendricks, and Lisa Manfield.

It was art directed by Frances Tycho and designed by Paul Wohlstetter and Angela Chan.

Realm (British magazine)

Realm is a picture magazine available in the United Kingdom. It focuses on sites and topics of interest to tourists from North America, and carries frequent coverage of the British Royal Family and British government.

It is not to be confused with the short-lived Canadian magazine, also called Realm.

Category:British magazines Category:Magazines with year of establishment missing Category:Local interest magazines Category:Tourism magazines

Realm

A realm is a community or territory over which a sovereign rules; it is commonly used to describe a kingdom or other monarchical or dynastic state.

The Old French word reaume, modern French royaume, was the word first adopted in English; the fixed modern spelling does not appear until the beginning of the 17th century. The word supposedly derives from medieval Latin regalimen, from regalis, of or belonging to a rex, (king). The word rex itself is derived from the Latin verb regere, which means "to rule". Thus the literally meaning of the word realm is the territory of a ruler, traditionally a monarch (emperor, king, grand duke, prince, etc.).

"Realm" is particularly used for those states whose name includes the word kingdom (for example, the United Kingdom), as elegant variation, to avoid clumsy repetition of the word in a sentence (for example, "The Queen's realm, the United Kingdom..."). It is also useful to describe those countries whose monarchs are called something other than "king" or "queen"; for example, the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg is a realm but not a kingdom since its monarch holds the title Grand Duke rather than King.

"Realm" is also frequently used to refer to territories that are "under" a monarch, yet are not a physical part of his or her "kingdom" (e.g. the Realm of Sweden, or to Holstein, which until the Second War of Schleswig was an important part of the Danish King's realm stretching to the border of Hamburg, although not a part of the Danish Kingdom). Similarly, the Cook Islands and Niue are considered parts of the Realm of New Zealand, although they are not part of New Zealand proper. Likewise, Denmark, the Faroe Islands and Greenland remain parts of the Unity of the Realm.

Realm may commonly also be used to describe the Commonwealth realms which all are kingdoms in their own right and share a common monarch, though they are fully independent of each other.

Realm (video game)

Realm is a Super Nintendo Entertainment System platform video game with shooting elements that was originally released in 1996.

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Usage examples of "realm".

Every day, top lawyers and accountants bustled in and out, hoping to catch the ear of the man who ruled this realm: Arthur Levitt, the SEC chairman.

In such positions the growth of forms which secrete solid skeletons is so rapid that great walls of their remains accumulate next the shore, the mass being built outwardly by successive growths until the realm of the land may be extended for scores of miles into the deep.

In the next place, we are warranted by several considerations in asserting that Peter believed that down there, in the gloomy realm of shades, were gathered and detained the souls of all the dead generations.

To those ends, I am here to serve, even if it means having to practice the more bellicose side of the art in defense of your realm.

The bull was particularly bellicose in tone and the French retaliated, expelling Italian bankers from the realm and, much more to the point, cutting off the export of money, which denied the papacy a considerable part of its income.

It was whiter than bleached bone, but here and there were glimmerings, like gems of the same berylline color as the sky, life within the monolith, revealed to Riane, so newly come to this creased and pitiless realm.

Assuming that you could transport men and mounts through all the perils that bestrew the way between here and the Realm Amphibious, once there they would be utterly defeated.

Little girls and their dreams were out of the realm of his expertise but there was something about Billie that would be easy to get used to.

The third realm was in the serene blue sky among the stars, the zone of blessedness, where the accepted dwell in immortal peace and joy.

They were now confirming for the two emulations that they were indeed associating with each other, for this was better than being subject to the breeding program of this realm.

In this realm, as in the realm of action, it was exclusiveness that kept the Western soul pure in its expressions, and it was the victory of quantitative ideas, methods, and feelings that laid the life of the West open to the entrance of the Culture-distorter.

Indeed, he and the late Emperor of the Holy Roman Empire were the only two then-ruling monarchs to offer our excommunicant king sanctuary in their realms during the very darkest days, a few years ago, for all that had they taken him in, they could then have been themselves excommunicated and the lands they ruled been put under interdict.

Change our homuncules, and observe forthwith How the High Influence sways the English realm, And how the jacks lip out their reasonings there.

After five years of a kingdom-wide war, you know that his realms must be aswarm with veteran soldiers, and Zastros is offering them anything that he feels might tempt themamnesties and lands to nobles who fought against him, manumissions to escaped slaves, excellent wages to mercenaries, and mountains of loot for all.

They all came to earth in their time, achieved communion with the higher powers, reached the blessed stage of masterhood, and departed to join us in the realms of spirit.