Realm
Pronunciation
- UK enPR: rĕlm, IPA: /rɛlm/
- Rhymes: -ɛlm
Origin
From Old French reaume, realme ("kingdom"), of unclear origins. A postulated *rÄ“gÄlimen, Late Latin cross of regimen with rÄ“gÄlis is usually cited.
Full definition of realm
Noun
realm
(plural realms)- An abstract sphere of influence, real or imagined.
- 1907, Tada Kanai, translated by Arthur Lloyd, Seven Buddhist Sermons, ""Why should we despise anything in the realm of Buddha?
- 2006, Christian Neef, "Diary of a Collapsing Superpower", Spiegel Magazine, November 22,At home in Moscow, Mikhail Sergeyevitch Gorbachev, who had launched a campaign to rejuvenate the Soviet realm ...
- 2013-05-17, George Monbiot, Money just makes the rich suffer, In order to grant the rich these pleasures, the social contract is reconfigured. … The public realm is privatised, the regulations restraining the ultra-wealthy and the companies they control are abandoned, and Edwardian levels of inequality are almost fetishised.
- The domain of a certain abstraction.
- 1922, Judson Eber Conant,The Church The Schools and Evolution, "",One thing more which the scientific man does is to accord primacy to that realm of truth which is primary in importance.
- (formal or legal) A territory or state, as ruled by a specific power, and particularly those territories ruled by a king.
- 1874, Horatio Alger, Brave and Bold, ,And, of this island realm, he and his companion were the undisputed sovereigns.
- 1913, Leslie Alexander Toke, Catholic Encyclopedia, "",Then seeing his life was threatened he fled the realm and crossed over to Flanders, ...