Territory vs Abode - What's the difference?
territory | abode |
A large extent or tract of land; a region; a country; a district.
(Canada) One of three of Canada's federated entities, located in the country's Arctic, with fewer powers than a province and created by Act of Parliament rather than by the Constitution: Yukon, Northwest Territories, and Nunavut.
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.
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, title= (zoology) An area that an animal of a particular species consistently defends against its conspecifics.
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* 12 July 2012 , Sam Adams, AV Club Ice Age: Continental Drift
(obsolete) Act of waiting; delay.
* 1590 , (Edmund Spenser), (The Faerie Queene) , III.viii:
(obsolete) Stay or continuance in a place; sojourn.
* 1661 , , [http://archive.org/stream/a615775104worduoft/a615775104worduoft_djvu.txt The Life of the most learned, reverend and pious Dr. H. Hammond]
* (rfdate), (Henry Fielding) (1707-1754)
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, passage=The humor of my proposition appealed more strongly to Miss Trevor than I had looked for, and from that time forward she became her old self again;
(formal) A residence, dwelling or habitation.
* (rfdate), (William Wordsworth) (1770-1850)
(abide)
(obsolete) An omen; a foretelling.
* High-thundering Juno's husband stirs my spirit with true abodes . -
As nouns the difference between territory and abode
is that territory is a large extent or tract of land; a region; a country; a district while abode is (obsolete) act of waiting; delay or abode can be (obsolete) an omen; a foretelling .As a verb abode is
(abide) or abode can be (obsolete) to bode; to foreshow; to presage .territory
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Noun
(territories)Boundary problems, passage=Economics is a messy discipline: too fluid to be a science, too rigorous to be an art. Perhaps it is fitting that economists’ most-used metric, gross domestic product (GDP), is a tangle too. GDP measures the total value of output in an economic territory . Its apparent simplicity explains why it is scrutinised down to tenths of a percentage point every month.}}
Rugby World Cup 2011: England 16-12 Scotland, passage=Scotland had the territory and the momentum, forcing England into almost twice as many tackles and rattling them repeatedly at set-pieces.}}
- The matter of whether the world needs a fourth Ice Age movie pales beside the question of why there were three before it, but Continental Drift feels less like an extension of a theatrical franchise than an episode of a middling TV cartoon, lolling around on territory that’s already been settled.
Derived terms
* come with the territory * territorial * Territorial Army * territoriality * territorially * territorial watersabode
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Alternative forms
* (obsolete)Etymology 1
From (etyl) abod, abad, from (etyl) . For the change of vowel, compare ''abode'', preterit of ''abide .Noun
(en noun)- Vpon his Courser set the louely lode, / And with her fled away without abode .
- During the whole time of his abode in the university he generally spent thirteen hours of the day in study; by which assiduity besides an exact dispatch of the whole course of philosophy, he read over in a manner all classic authors that are extant
- He waxeth at your abode here.
- of no fixed abode .
- Come, let me lead you to our poore abode .