The three dominions together engaged some 40% of the German army.
Yet when British troops left their African, Middle Eastern, and Asian dominions, they left behind many embryonic democracies, too.
This was her phrase for having entered on the dominions of England.
In his own dominions the voice of execration has been raised against him.
He even offers to make a gift of his dominions to the Republic.
She was a wise and discreet lady and assisted her husband to govern his dominions.
These you behold before you are the chief warriors of my dominions.
We are fairly entered within the dominions of his majesty the king of Holland.
She assured me of her protection, and that she was glad of my being in her dominions.
He had greatly enlarged his dominions, taking one country after another.
early 15c., from Old French dominion "dominion, rule, power," from Medieval Latin dominionem (nominative dominio), corresponding to Latin dominium "property, ownership," from dominus (see domination).
British sovereign colonies often were called dominions, hence the Dominion of Canada, the formal title after the 1867 union, and Old Dominion, the popular name for the U.S. state of Virginia, first recorded 1778.
