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realm | universe |

As a noun realm

is an abstract sphere of influence, real or imagined.

As a proper noun universe is

the sum of everything that exists in the cosmos, including time and space itself.

realm

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • An abstract sphere of influence, real or imagined.
  • * 1907 , Tada Kanai, translated by Arthur Lloyd, Seven Buddhist Sermons , ""
  • Why should we despise anything in the realm of Buddha?
  • * 2006 , Christian Neef, " Diary of a Collapsing Superpower", Spiegel Magazine , November 22,
  • At home in Moscow, Mikhail Sergeyevitch Gorbachev, who had launched a campaign to rejuvenate the Soviet realm  
  • * {{quote-magazine, date=2013-05-17
  • , author=George Monbiot, authorlink=George Monbiot , title=Money just makes the rich suffer , volume=188, issue=23, page=19 , magazine=(The Guardian Weekly) citation , passage=In order to grant the rich these pleasures, the social contract is reconfigured. […]  The public realm is privatised, the regulations restraining the ultra-wealthy and the companies they control are abandoned, and Edwardian levels of inequality are almost fetishised.}}
  • The domain of a certain abstraction.
  • * 1922 , Judson Eber Conant,The Church The Schools and Evolution , "",
  • One thing more which the scientific man does is to accord primacy to that realm of truth which is primary in importance.
  • (formal, or, legal) A territory or state, as ruled by a specific power, and particularly those territories ruled by a king.
  • * 1874 , ,
  • And, of this island realm , he and his companion were the undisputed sovereigns.
  • * 1913 , Leslie Alexander Toke, Catholic Encyclopedia , "",
  • Then seeing his life was threatened he fled the realm and crossed over to Flanders,

    Synonyms

    * (A territory or state) country, land, kingdom * (A sphere of activity or influence) field, province

    Derived terms

    * abstract realm * Commonwealth realm * custom of the realm * Eastern Realm * experience realm * floristic realm * Ice Realm * in the realm of shades * Northern Realm * realm of banking * realm of fantasy * realm of the dead * realm of possibility * Snow Realm * Southern Realm * Western Realm

    Anagrams

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    universe

    English

    Alternative forms

    * Universe (dated or religious)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • The sum of everything that exists in the cosmos, including time and space itself; same as the Universe.
  • I think that the universe was created by a life force rather than a deity .
  • An entity similar to our Universe; one component of a larger entity known as the multiverse.
  • Everything under consideration.
  • In all this universe of possibilities, there is only one feasible option.
  • An imaginary collection of worlds.
  • The universe in this comic book series is richly imagined.
  • Intense form of world in the sense of perspective or social setting.
  • That didn’t just rock my world, it rocked my universe .

    Derived terms

    * clockwork universe * known universe * observable universe * parallel universe * physical universe * universe of discourse

    See also

    * om * (disambig) * (projectlink) * * ----