Settlement vs Dominion - What's the difference?
settlement | dominion |
The state of being settled.
A colony that is newly established; a place or region newly settled.
A community of people living together, such as a hamlet, village, town, or city.
(architecture) The gradual sinking of a building. Fractures or dislocations caused by settlement.
(finance) The delivery of goods by the seller and payment for them by the buyer, under a previously agreed trade or transaction or contract entered into.
(legal) A disposition of property, or the act of granting it.
(legal) A settled place of abode; residence; a right growing out of legal residence.
(legal) A resolution of a dispute.
Power or the use of power; sovereignty over something; stewardship, supremacy.
* Bible, Daniel iv. 34
* Jowett
predominance; ascendancy
* Dryden
(sometimes, figurative) A kingdom, nation, or other sphere of influence; governed territory.
(historical) One of the colonies of the British Empire given self-government through the Statute of Westminster, such as Canada or Newfoundland.
(Biblical tradition) An order of angel in Christian angelology, ranked above angels and below thrones.
* Bible, Colossians 1:16
As a noun settlement
is the state of being settled.As a proper noun dominion is
any of the self-governing nations of the british commonwealth.settlement
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(en noun)Synonyms
* (A resolution of a dispute) arrangementHyponyms
* See alsoDerived terms
* settlement agreementdominion
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(en noun)- I praised and honoured him that liveth forever, whose dominion is an everlasting dominion.
- To choose between dominion or slavery.
- Objects placed foremost ought have dominion over things confused and transient.
- the dominions of a king
- the dominion of the passions
- By him were all things created whether they be thrones, or dominions , or principalities, or powers.
