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Realm

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realm
a royal domain; kingdom (now chiefly in such phrases as Peer of the Realm)
Realm 

the largest unit of zoogeographic regionalization (seeZOOLOGICAL REGIONALIZATION). The land areas of the earth are divided into three realms: Arctogea, Neogea, and Notogea. Some zoogeographers use the term “region” instead of realm, for example, the Holarctic region. The Pacific Ocean is also divided into three realms: the realm of the cold and temperate sea of the northern hemisphere, the tropical realm, and the realm of the cold and temperate seas of the southern hemisphere.
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They then fell upon each other's neck and wept scalding rills down each other's spine in token of their banishment to the Realm of Ineffable Bosh.
Fantastic-Fables by Bierce, Ambrose View in context
Thus, after the death of the King, "the realm stood in great jeopardy a long while, for every lord that was mighty of men made him strong, and many weened to have been King.
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The realm of France, it is well known, was divided betwixt the Norman and Teutonic race, who spoke the language in which the word Yes is pronounced as oui, and the inhabitants of the southern regions, whose speech bearing some affinity to the Italian, pronounced the same word oc.
Ivanhoe by Scott, Walter View in context
 
 
 
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