territory : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: territory	by the DICT Development Group
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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
territory n a region marked off for administrative or other purposes Synonym(s): district, territory, territorial dominion, dominion an area of knowledge or interest; "his questions covered a lot of territory" the geographical area under the jurisdiction of a sovereign state; "American troops were stationed on Japanese soil" Synonym(s): territory, soil
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Territory \Ter"ritory\, n.; pl. {Territories}. [L. territorium, from terra the earth: cf. F. territoire. See {Terrace}.] 1. A large extent or tract of land; a region; a country; a district. He looked, and saw wide territory spread Before him -- towns, and rural works between. --Milton. 2. The extent of land belonging to, or under the dominion of, a prince, state, or other form of government; often, a tract of land lying at a distance from the parent country or from the seat of government; as, the territory of a State; the territories of the East India Company. 3. In the United States, a portion of the country not included within the limits of any State, and not yet admitted as a State into the Union, but organized with a separate legislature, under a Territorial governor and other officers appointed by the President and Senate of the United States. In Canada, a similarly organized portion of the country not yet formed into a Province.