territory
Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
territory/ˈterətri/
▶noun (pl. territories)
- 1 an area under the jurisdiction of a ruler or state.
- 2 (Territory) (especially in the US, Canada, or Australia) an organized division of a country not having the full rights of a state.
- 3 Zoology an area defended by an animal against others of the same sex or species.
- 4 an area defended by a team or player in a game or sport.
- 5 an area in which one has certain rights or responsibilities.
- 6 an area of knowledge or experience.
- 7 land with a specified characteristic: woodland territory.
– origin ME: from L. territorium, from terra ‘land’.
'territory' also found in these Oxford entries:
Abkhaz
- Achinese
- ACT
- annex
- ayah
- bridgehead
- cabotage
- capital territory
- cede
- cession
- city state
- confine
- conquest
- country
- dismember
- district
- dominion
- duchy
- enclave
- encroach
- exclave
- expansion
- extraterritorial
- foray
- grand duke
- ground
- hoist
- home
- irredentist
- jurisdiction
- kingdom
- landgrave
- Lebensraum
- mainland
- mandate
- manor
- marchioness
- MI5
- nation
- NT
- palatinate
- palatine
- panhandle
- possession
- province
- retrocede
- revanchism
- soil
- spray
- state
