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English noun: domain | |||
| 1. | domain (state) a particular environment or walk of life | ||
| Samples | His social sphere is limited. It was a closed area of employment. He's out of my orbit. | ||
| Synonyms | area, arena, field, orbit, sphere | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | environment | ||
| Narrower (hyponym) | distaff, front, kingdom, land, lap, political arena, political sphere, preserve, province, realm, responsibility | ||
| 2. | domain (location) territory over which rule or control is exercised | ||
| Samples | His domain extended into Europe. He made it the law of the land. | ||
| Synonyms | demesne, land | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | region | ||
| Narrower (hyponym) | archduchy, barony, duchy, dukedom, earldom, emirate, empire, fiefdom, grand duchy, imperium, khanate, kingdom, princedom, principality, realm, sheikdom, sheikhdom, suzerainty, viscounty | ||
| Part meronym | country, land, state | ||
| 3. | domain (group) (mathematics) the set of values of the independent variable for which a function is defined | ||
| Synonyms | domain of a function | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | set | ||
| Domain category | math, mathematics, maths | ||
| 4. | domain (group) people in general; especially a distinctive group of people with some shared interest | ||
| Samples | The Western world. | ||
| Synonyms | world | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | class, social class, socio-economic class, stratum | ||
| Narrower (hyponym) | academe, academia, Grub Street | ||
| 5. | domain (cognition) the content of a particular field of knowledge | ||
| Synonyms | knowledge base, knowledge domain | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | cognitive content, content, mental object | ||
| Narrower (hyponym) | bailiwick, discipline, field, field of study, realm, region, scientific knowledge, study, subject, subject area, subject field | ||
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