realm meaning

• Noun: realm  relm
  1. A domain in which something is dominant
     "the rise of the realm of cotton in the south"
     - kingdom, land 
  2. The domain ruled by a king or queen
     - kingdom 
  3. A knowledge domain that you are interested in or are communicating about
     "it was a limited realm of discourse"; "the realm of the occult"
     - region

  Derived forms: realms

  Type of: area, arena, demesne, domain, field, knowledge base, knowledge domain, land, orbit, sphere

  Encyclopedia: Realm

• abjure the realm:     (historical)  ...
• estate of the realm:    Noun: estate of th ...
• peer of the realm:    Noun: peer of the ...

Examples

1. his poems discovered vast realms of the spirit ...
2. this is one of the fundamental estates of the realm.
3. the king maintained order within the bound of his realm.
4. in the realm of words and ideas, he might be the teacher.
5. the hypothesis no longer belongs to the realm of science fiction.