- [uncountable] dominion (over somebody/something) (literary)
authority to rule; control 统治（权）；管辖；支配 - [countable] (formal)
an area controlled by one political leader 领土；版图 the vast dominions of the Roman Empire 罗马帝国的辽阔疆域
- (often Dominion)[countable]
(in the past 旧时 any of the countries of the British Commonwealth that had their own government （英联邦）自治领
Word OriginMiddle English: via Old French from medieval Latin dominio(n-), from Latin dominium, from dominus ‘lord, master’.