dominion

noun

/dəˈmɪnjən/

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[uncountable] dominion (over somebody/something) (literary) authority to rule; control统治（权）；管辖；支配
- Man has dominion over the natural world.人类拥有对自然界的统治权。
- Soon the whole country was under his sole dominion.不久，他便独揽了整个国家的大权。
[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 compare colony, protectorate

Word OriginMiddle English: via Old French from medieval Latin dominio(n-), from Latin dominium, from dominus ‘lord, master’.