Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun dominion

3 senses of dominion

Sense 1
dominion, rule -- (dominance or power through legal authority; "France held undisputed dominion over vast areas of Africa"; "the rule of Caesar")
       => dominance, ascendance, ascendence, ascendancy, ascendency, control -- (the state that exists when one person or group has power over another; "her apparent dominance of her husband was really her attempt to make him pay attention to her")

Sense 2
district, territory, territorial dominion, dominion -- (a region marked off for administrative or other purposes)
       => region -- (a large indefinite location on the surface of the Earth; "penguins inhabit the polar regions")

Sense 3
Dominion -- (one of the self-governing nations in the British Commonwealth)
       => state, nation, country, land, commonwealth, res publica, body politic -- (a politically organized body of people under a single government; "the state has elected a new president"; "African nations"; "students who had come to the nation's capitol"; "the country's largest manufacturer"; "an industrialized land")