dominion

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noun

1. The right and power to command, decide, rule, or judge: authority, command, control, domination, jurisdiction, mastery, might, power, prerogative, sovereignty, sway. Informal say-so. See over/under.
2. The fact of possessing or the legal right to possess something: ownership, possession, proprietorship, title. See owned/unowned.
3. The act of exercising controlling power or the condition of being so controlled: command, control, dominance, domination, mastery, reign, rule, sway. See over/under.

Definition: area of rule; authority
Antonyms: outside

A synonym for power in early modern English, the term later denoted any realm over which a sovereign exercised authority. From the late nineteenth century it was applied particularly to self-governing states within the British Empire, such as Canada, to distinguish them from less autonomous dependencies of the Crown.

— Charles Jones

Perfect control in right of ownership. The word implies both title and possession and appears to require a complete retention of control over disposition. Title to an article of property, which arises from the power of disposition and the right of claiming it. Sovereignty; as in the dominion of the seas or over a territory.

In civil law, with reference to the title to property that is transferred by a sale of it, dominion is said to be either proximate or remote, the former being the kind of title vesting in the purchaser when he or she has acquired both the ownership and the possession of the article, the latter describing the nature of the title when he or she has legitimately acquired the ownership of the property but there has been no delivery.

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• Forms, Systems, and Philosophies - dominion: sovereignty, authority over; self-governing member of British Commonwealth giving allegiance to British monarch
• World Relations and Conditions - dominion: territory over which single government rules; sovereign authority over such territory

Dansk (Danish)
n. - herredømme, magtområde

Nederlands (Dutch)
heerschappij, domein, Overheden, Britse kolonie

Français (French)
n. - empire (sur), territoire, possessions, (GB, Pol) dominion

Deutsch (German)
n. - Herrschaft, Ländereien, Reich

Ελληνική (Greek)
n. - εξουσία, κυριαρχία, (ιστ.) (αποικιακή) κτήση

Italiano (Italian)
dominio

Português (Portuguese)
n. - domínio (m)

Русский (Russian)
владычество, владение, доминион

Español (Spanish)
n. - dominio

Svenska (Swedish)
n. - herravälde, område

中文（简体）(Chinese (Simplified))
主权, 统治权, 领土

中文（繁體）(Chinese (Traditional))
n. - 主權, 統治權, 領土

한국어 (Korean)
n. - 주권, 영역, 자치 지역

日本語 (Japanese)
n. - 支配権, 支配, 領地, 領土, 自治領

العربيه (Arabic)
‏(الاسم) سيادة, سلطان, ملكيه كامله‏

עברית (Hebrew)
n. - ‮שליטה, סמכות, ריבונות, אדנות, דומיניון‬

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