Territory

What do we mean by territory?

An area of land; a region. noun

The land and waters under the jurisdiction of a government. noun

A political subdivision of a country. noun

A geographic region, such as a colonial possession, that is dependent on an external government. noun

A subdivision of the United States that is not a state and is administered by an appointed or elected governor and elected legislature. noun

A similarly organized political subdivision of Canada or Australia. noun

An area for which a person is responsible as a representative or agent. noun

The area of a field defended by a specified team. noun

An area occupied by a single animal, mating pair, or group and often vigorously defended against intruders, especially those of the same species. noun

A sphere of action or interest; a province. synonym: field. noun

The extent or compass of land and the waters thereof within the bounds or belonging to the jurisdiction of any sovereign, state, city, or other body; any separate tract of land as belonging to a state; dominion; sometimes, also, a domain or piece of land belonging to an individual. noun

Any extensive tract, region, district, or domain: as, an unexplored territory in Africa. noun

capitalized In the United States, an organized division of the country, not admitted to the complete rights of Statehood (see state, 13). noun

Synonyms and Quarter, province. noun

A large extent or tract of land; a region; a country; a district. noun

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. noun

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. noun

A large extent or tract of land; a region; a country; a district. noun

A large extent or tract of land; for example a region, country or district.

One of three of Canada's federated entities, located in the country's Arctic, with fewer powers than a province and created by an act of Parliament rather than by the Constitution: Yukon, Northwest Territories, and Nunavut.

One of three of Australia's federated entities, located in the country's north and southeast, with fewer powers than a state and created by an act of Parliament rather than by the Constitution: Northern Territory, Australian Capital Territory and Jervis Bay Territory.

A geographic area under control of a single governing entity such as state or municipality; an area whose borders are determined by the scope of political power rather than solely by natural features such as rivers and ridges.

An area that an animal of a particular species consistently defends against its conspecifics.

The part of the playing field or board over which a player or team has control.

A geographic area that a person or organization is responsible for in the course of work.

A location or logical space which someone owns or controls.

A market segment or scope of professional practice over which an organization or type of practitioner has exclusive rights.

An area of subject matter, knowledge, or experience.

A very big place for wealth-starter person Urban Dictionary

Your not jealous your territorial protecting what's yours Urban Dictionary

A drinking game in which a 25 cup diamond (5 cups wide) is placed in the middle of a table. Teams of up to three compete using three ping pong balls to eliminate the opposing teams territory by shooting the balls into the 10 cup triangle opposite the middle five cups, called borderline. The row called borderline are the only five cups not filled with beer, they are filled normally with water or soda. When you make a borderline cup, you have the option to either take an additional shot, or add that cup to your territory causing the other team to have another cup to make. Urban Dictionary

A person who is overly emotional, a tad bit psycho, and has to get laid before their ex gets laid. Urban Dictionary

The act of coitus motivated by jealousy and a desire to reassert sexual ownership through aggressive love-making. Urban Dictionary

The 7000s range in VR. In Mario Kart Wii, your skill is tracked by VR, points you lose or gain depending on your position at the end of a race when playing online. Being in the 7000s is Nmeade Territory according to TWD98 and Nmeade5, two prominent Mario Kart Wii players, due to Nmeade5 having been in that range for awhile in the past. Urban Dictionary

The act of farting in order to clear an area for your own personal enjoyment Urban Dictionary

A highly addictive game that is responsible for countless children and adults ditching their friends and living at their computers. Also known as ET Urban Dictionary

It's basically the space of skin between a girl's miniskirt and higher-than-the-knee thighs. coming from the japanese phrase, "絶対領域" (zettai ryoiki), it was first a slang coined up by otakus. now it's used in japan pretty commonly by the public. it's also a way to tease guys, since they normally like that more that full nudity. a good example of where this term is used is in the anime, ナナマル サンバツ (nana maru sau batsu), meaning "fastest finger first," by character mari fukami (深見 真理). Urban Dictionary

Award given to the winner of the Duel in the Desert: Arizona State University or the University of Arizona. Urban Dictionary

Words that are spelled similarly to territory:
territory, traitory, meritory, termitary, territo, territoire, territorio.

Words that are triggered by (strongly associated with) the word territory:
unorganized, statehood, ceded, annexed, territorial, darwin, gibraltar, territories, conquered, duchy, diocese, unincorporated, inhabited, treaty, administered, settlers, occupied, oklahoma, serbia, hawaii, tribe, guinea, borders, jurisdiction, dakota, lands, boundaries, alaska.

Words that rhyme with territory:
story, allegory, aleatory, inventory, glory, desultory, mandatory, quarry, derogatory, category, repository, laboratory, statutory, dilatory, signatory, dory, storey, purgatory, hoary, conciliatory, lorry, ambulatory, oratory, exculpatory, dormitory, recore, obligatory, mori, transitory, lavatory, respiratory, tory, depilatory, inflammatory, regulatory, gory, predatory, auditory, tori, kauri, repertory, laudatory, observatory, preparatory, lory, defamatory, revelatory, explanatory, depository, morey, celebratory, cory, torii, pylori, montessori, discriminatory, accusatory, compensatory, exploratory, memento mori, ori, understory, circulatory, promissory, aurae, interrogatory, migratory, incantatory, participatory, corrie, corey, reformatory, cacciatore, lori, boree, tempore, rory, confirmatory, contributory, anticipatory, congratulatory, horae, saury, aurei, torrey, oscillatory, retaliatory, ory, laurie, declaratory, maury, gorey, inhibitory, lorrie, tauri, jory, life story, excretory, articulatory, outlawry.

Adjectives that are often used to describe territory:
new, own, british, vast, national, whole, occupied, indian, french, german, chinese, neutral, entire, disputed, russian, foreign, conquered, american, soviet, spanish, western, much, roman, mexican, familiar, unknown, hostile, former, uncharted, polish, extensive, turkish, virgin, adjacent, unfamiliar, tribal, portuguese, held, additional, northern, egyptian, colonial, wide, unexplored, immense, austrian, ceded, federal, southern, lost, dangerous, italian, belgian, contiguous, canadian, mandated, dutch, arab, controlled, fertile, greek, papal, friendly, rich, sovereign, japanese, limited, venetian, sacred, alien, african, west, exclusive, unoccupied, eastern, huge, hungarian.

Nouns that are often described by the adjective territory:
border, west, government, north, governments, south, quality, size, management, subject, east, managers, northwest, boundaries, law, population, legislation, wools, economics, people, defense, owners, slavery, acquisition, area, formation, bands, dimension, community, development, southwest, tributary, economy, wool, authorities, land, the, communities, residents, holder, mapping, service, westward, side, characteristics, laws, station, tribes, manager, production, establishment, coast, inheritance, industry, sales, lie, object, cattle, town, jurisdictions, police, free, stations, freedom, pastoralists, towns, settlements, matters, election, agencies, folks, wide, forest, authority, defence, ministers, product, aborigines, services, centres, representation, bear, oklahoma, property, ownership, slaves, record, preparatory, affairs.

Consonant match to territory:
terutero.

Words that sound like territory:
territory, territories, feretory, territorial, tornatore, tortora, tertry, territorium, tessitore, torrey tree, territoire, dormitory, oratory, toy story, true story, tear it up, trattoria, tessitura, tartary, moratory, gyratory, traitory, tor tor, tuatara, cherry tree, delatorre, war story, teriyaki, dilatory, pterosaur, tarrytown, pterosaurs, teratoid, terry towel, taret organ, hortatory, trickery, dietary, tandoori, totoro, teodora, tetri, teodoro, trottier, dear diary, twittery, territorially, meritor, paratore, trinary, adjuratory, operatory, akrotiri, home territory, turturro.