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power's fancy word for everything you can point at and call mine.
means Sovereign authority or control over a territory or domain — or the territory itself that falls under that rule.
from From Latin dominium, "property, ownership," rooted in dominus, "lord, master" — itself from domus, "house, home." So the whole word grows out of the household: the dominus was the master of the domus, the man who ruled the home, and his dominium was everything that home contained. English borrowed it through Old French dominion, and the same Latin master-of-the-house lineage gives us dominate, domain, and even the polite domino. By the 19th century the British Empire dressed the word in capital letters — the self-governing Dominions like Canada — proving the essence's point: a household's authority, stretched to fit a map.
- latin root
- From dominus, lord of the household and slaves
- canada's name
- Called the Dominion of Canada until 1982
- genesis line
- Humanity given dominion over fish, birds, beasts
- board game
- Launched the entire deck-building genre in 2008
- colonial label
- Self-governing parts of the British Empire wore it proudly
dominion of canada — british dominion from 1867-1982, first self-governing colony in the british empire
dominion energy — fortune 500 utility company serving 7.7 million customers across us east coast
dominion of new zealand — british dominion from 1907-1947, now independent commonwealth realm