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demesne

 
Noun demesne has 2 senses
  1. estate, land, landed estate, acres, demesne - extensive landed property (especially in the country) retained by the owner for his own use; "the family owned a large estate on Long Island"
    --1 is a kind of real property, real estate, realty
    --1 has particulars:
     freehold; glebe; leasehold; smallholding; homestead; fief, feoff; barony; countryseat; Crown land; manor; seigneury, seigniory, signory; hacienda; plantation; entail
  2. domain, demesne, land - territory over which rule or control is exercised; "his domain extended into Europe"; "he made it the law of the land"
    --2 is a kind of region
    --2 is a part of country, state, land
    --2 has particulars:
     archduchy; barony; duchy, dukedom; earldom; emirate; empire; fiefdom; grand duchy; viscounty; khnate; kingdom, realm; principality, princedom; Kingdom of God; sheikdom, sheikhdom; suzerainty
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