domain

Main Entry:
topography [tuh-pog-ruh-fee]
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: terrain
Synonyms: area, bailiwick, contour, country, domain, dominion, field, form, ground, land, profile, province, region, shape, soil, sphere, territory, the lay of the land, turf
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Concept: Class.
Category: 4. DISTRIBUTIVE ORDER
Synonyms:
-nouns
class, division, category, categorema, head, order, section; department, subdepartment, province, domain., kind, sort, genus, species, variety, family, order, kingdom, race, tribe, caste, sept, clan, breed, type, subtype, kit, sect, set, subset; assortment; feather, kidney; suit; range; gender, sex, kin., manner, description, denomination, designation, character, stamp; predicament; indication, particularization, selection, specification., similarity.
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Concept: [Definite space] Region.
Category: 1. ABSTRACT SPACE
Synonyms:
-nouns
region, sphere, ground, soil, area, realm, hemisphere, quarter, district, beat, orb, circuit, circle; pale (limit); compartment, department; clearing; domain, tract, territory, country, canton, county, shire, province, arrondissement, mofussil, parish, township, commune, ward; wapentake, hundred, riding, lathe, garth, soke, tithing, bailiwick; principality, duchy, kingdom; archduchy, archdukedom., arena, precincts, enceinte, walk, march; patch, plot, inclosure, close, enclave, field, court; street (abode)., clime, climate, zone, meridian, latitude.
-adjectives
territorial, local, parochial, provincial, regional.
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Concept: World.
Synonyms:
-nouns
world, creation, nature, universe; earth, globe, wide world; cosmos; kosmos; terraqueous globe, sphere; macrocosm, megacosm; music of the spheres., heavens, sky, welkin, empyrean; starry cope, starry heaven, starry host; firmament; Midgard; supersensible regions; varuna; vault of heaven, canopy of heaven; celestial spaces., heavenly bodies, stars, asteroids; nebulae; galaxy, milky way, galactic circle, via lactea., sun, orb of day, Apollo, Phoebus; photosphere, chromosphere; solar system; planet, planetoid; comet; satellite, moon, orb of night, Diana, silver-footed queen; aerolite, meteor; planetary ring; falling star, shooting star; meteorite, uranolite., constellation, zodiac, signs of the zodiac, Charles's wain, Big Dipper, Little Dipper, Great Bear, Southern Cross, Orion's belt, Cassiopea's chair, Pleiades., colures, equator, ecliptic, orbit., [Science of heavenly bodies] astronomy; uranography, uranology; cosmology, cosmography, cosmogony; eidouranion, orrery; goedesy (measurement); star gazing, star gazer; astronomer; observatory; planetarium.
-adjectives
cosmic, cosmical; mundane, terrestrial, terrestrious, terraqueous, terrene, terreous, telluric, earthly, geotic, under the sun; sublunary, subastral., solar, heliacal; lunar; celestial, heavenly, sphery; starry, stellar; sidereal, sideral; astral; nebular; uranic.
-adverbs
in all creation, on the face of the globe, here velow, under the sun.
-phrases
die Weltgeschichte ist das Weltergesicht; "earth is but the frozen echo of the silent voice of God" [Hageman]; "green calm below, blue quietness above" [Whittier]; "hanging in a golden chain this pendant World" [Paradise Lost]; "nothing in nature is unbeautiful" [Tennyson]; "silently as a dream the fabric rose" [Cowper]; "some touch of nature's genial glow" [Scott]; "this majestical roof fretted with golden fire" [Hamlet]; "through knowledge we behold the World's creation"
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