Territory

Noun

 * 1) A large extent or tract of land; a region; a country; a district.
 * 2) 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.

Adjectives for Territory
extensive; adjacent; contiguous; debatable adjoining; valuable; disputed; immense imperial; worthless; contracted; neutral condemned; excellent; dangerous; virgin ideal; productive; paltry; vast; annexed choice; rich; unassigned; inexhaustible; restricted; best; protected.

Verbs for Territory
abandon—; absorb—; administer—s; annex—; border—; cede—; claim—; commandeer—; covet—; devastate—; dispose of—; embrace—; endow with—;  expropriate—; flank—; forfeit—; fortify—; gain—; impound—; invade—; lay waste—; lease—; mandate—; partition—; patrol—; ravage—; reconquer—; retain—; reward with—; rule—; seek—; skirt—; traverse—; value—; yield—; —confronts; —flourishes; — revolts; —seethes.

Thesaurus
landholdings, lithosphere, living space, magistracy, mandant, mandate, mandated territory, mandatee, mandatory, marginal land, marl, metropolis, metropolitan area, milieu, mold, nation, nationality, neighborhood, oblast, offshore rights, okrug, open country, open space, orbit, outback, parish, part, parts, patch, place, plain, polis, polity, possession, power, prairie, precinct, precincts, premises, principality, principate, protectorate, province, puppet government, puppet regime, purlieu, purlieus, quarter, real estate, real property, realm, region, regolith, republic, riding, salient, satellite, section, sector, seneschalty, settlement, sheriffalty, sheriffwick, shire, shrievalty, sod, soil, soke, sovereign nation, space, sphere, sphere of influence, stake, stamping ground, state, steppe, subaerial deposit, subsoil, sultanate, superpower, terra, terra firma, terrain, the country, three-mile limit, toparchia, toparchy, topsoil, town, township, tract, turf, twelve-mile limit, vantage, vicinage, vicinity, village, walk, wapentake, ward, wide-open spaces, wilderness, woodland, zone, Kreis, Lebensraum, acres, air space, airspace, alluvion, alluvium, ally, ambit, arable land, archbishopric, archdiocese, archduchy, archdukedom, area, arrondissement, back country, bailiwick, belt, bishopric, body politic, borough, buffer state, canton, captive nation, champaign, chieftaincy, chieftainry, city, city-state, clay, clear space, clearance, clearing, clod, colony, commonweal, commonwealth, commune, confines, congressional district, constablewick, constituency, continental shelf, corridor, country, county, crust, demesne, departement, department, desert, diocese, dirt, distant prospect, district, division, domain, dominion, dry land, duchy, dukedom, dust, earldom, earth, electoral district, electorate, empery, empire, empty view, environs, footing, free city, freehold, glade, glebe, government, grand duchy, grassland, ground, hamlet, heartland, hinterland, hundred, kingdom, land,

Etymology
territorium, from terra the earth

Pronunciation




Related terms

 * terra
 * terrace
 * terracotta
 * terrain
 * terrene
 * terrier
 * territorial
 * terrestrial

Translations

 * Arabic: إقليم
 * Catalan: territori
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: 領土, 领土, 領地, 领地, 地區, 地区
 * Czech:
 * Dutch: ,
 * Esperanto: teritorio
 * French: territoire
 * German:
 * Hebrew:
 * Indonesian: teritori
 * Interlingua: territorio


 * Italian:
 * Japanese: 領土
 * Latin:
 * Latvian:
 * Old English:
 * Persian: قلمرو, سرزمين
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian: teritoriu
 * Russian: территория
 * Scottish Gaelic: dùthaich, talamh, tìr
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish:


 * Catalan: territori
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: 特區, 特区


 * Korean: 준주
 * Russian: территория