1 an area of knowledge or activity; especially one that sb is responsible for:
The care of older people is being placed firmly within the domain of the family. * Physics used to be very much a male domain.
seealsoPUBLICDOMAIN
2 lands owned or ruled by a particular person, government, etc., especially in the past:
The Spice Islands were within the Spanish domains.
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