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[Middle English realme, from Old French, alteration (influenced by Old French reial, royal) of Latin regimen, government, from regere, to rule.]
noun
A Realm is the dominion of a monarch, king or queen, emperor or empress, or another personal sovereign ruler of some sort. The Old French reaume (modern French royaume) was the form of the word first adopted in English; the fixed modern spelling does not appear until the beginning of the 17th century. The word supposedly derives from Med. Lat. regalimen, from regalis, of or belonging to a rex, (king).[1] Realm directly translates into Reich in German, though the word reich is often used as a short form for kingdoms (Königreich) and especially empires (Kaiserreich).
"Realm" is particularly used for those states whose name includes the word Kingdom (for example, the United Kingdom), to avoid clumsy repetition of the word in a sentence (for example, "The Queen's realm, the United Kingdom...").
"Realm" is also frequently used to refer to territories that are "under" a monarch, yet are not a physical part of his or her "kingdom" (for example, the various Commonwealth Realms under the British crown, in Realm of Sweden, or to Holstein, which until the Second War of Schleswig was an important part of the Danish king's realm stretching to the border of Hamburg, although not a part of the Danish kingdom). Similarly, the Cook Islands, Niue, and Tokelau are considered parts of the Realm of New Zealand, although they are not part of New Zealand proper. Likewise, the Faroe Islands and Greenland remain parts of the Danish Realm.
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Dansk (Danish)
n. - kongerige, rige, verden
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Français (French)
n. - royaume, (fig) domaine
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Ελληνική (Greek)
n. - βασίλειο, σφαίρα επιρροής, τομέας, δικαιοδοσία, σφαίρα ενδιαφέροντος ή δικαιοδοσίας
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Italiano (Italian)
regno, ambito
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Português (Portuguese)
n. - reino (m), domínio (m)
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Русский (Russian)
королевство, царство
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Español (Spanish)
n. - reino, esfera, terreno
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Svenska (Swedish)
n. - konungarike, (abstr) värld
中文（简体） (Chinese (Simplified))
王国, 界, 领域, 国土, 领土, 范围
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中文（繁體） (Chinese (Traditional))
n. - 王國, 界, 領域, 國土, 領土, 範圍
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日本語 (Japanese)
n. - 領域, 範囲, 分野, 王国, 国土
العربيه (Arabic)
(الاسم) مملكه
עברית (Hebrew)
n. - תחום, עולם, ממלכה
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