- plural of dominion.
dominions
Britishplural noun
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Slavery was widespread in ancient Rome and its dominions.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 21, 2026
Prince Baltasar Carlos, Philip’s only son and likely heir to all the king’s dominions, had died at 16, apparently a smallpox victim.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 17, 2024
Australia has no treaty with its Indigenous people, and has done little in comparison to other British dominions like Canada, New Zealand and the United States to include and uplift its First Nations people.
From Reuters ● Jun. 23, 2023
Those countries, known as dominions, had a high level of independence from Britain, but were not fully independent countries as they are today.
From BBC ● Dec. 6, 2021
I say, therefore, that those dominions, upon being conquered and added to the long-established state of the one who acquires them, are either of the same region and language or they are not.
From "The Prince" by Niccolò Machiavelli
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