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Noun: dominion  du'mi-nyun
  1. Dominance or power through legal authority
    "France held undisputed dominion over vast areas of Africa";
    - rule, raj [Asia]
     
  2. A region marked off for administrative or other purposes
    - district, territory, territorial dominion
Noun: Dominion
  1. One of the self-governing nations in the British Commonwealth

Derived forms: Dominions, dominions

Type of: ascendance, ascendancy, ascendence, ascendency, body politic, commonwealth, control, country, dominance, land, nation, region, res publica, state

Encyclopedia: Dominion, Yukon