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Realm vs. Empire — What's the Difference?

Realm vs. Empire — What's the Difference?

Difference Between Realm and Empire

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Realm

A realm is a community or territory over which a sovereign rules. The term is commonly used to describe a monarchical or dynastic state.

Empire

An empire is a sovereign state made up of several territories and peoples subject to a single ruling authority, often an emperor. A state can become an empire either by a narrow definition through having an emperor and being named as such, or by a broad definition as stated above as an aggregate territory under the rule of supreme authorities such as the Roman Empire.

Realm

A community or territory over which a sovereign rules; a kingdom.

Empire

An extensive group of states or countries ruled over by a single monarch, an oligarchy, or a sovereign state
The Roman Empire

Realm

An area or sphere, as of knowledge or activity
The realm of science.
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Empire

A large commercial organization owned or controlled by one person or group
Her business empire grew

Realm

An abstract sphere of influence, real or imagined.

Empire

Denoting a style of furniture, decoration, or dress fashionable chiefly during the First Empire in France. The decorative style was neoclassical but marked by an interest in Egyptian and other ancient motifs.

Realm

The domain of a certain abstraction.

Empire

Denoting produce from the Commonwealth.

Realm

(computing) A scope of operation in networking or security.

Empire

Of, relating to, or characteristic of a neoclassic style, as in clothing or the decorative arts, prevalent in France during the early 1800s.

Realm

A territory or state, as ruled by a specific power, especially by a king.

Empire

A variety of apple having dark red skin and white flesh.

Realm

An otherworldly dimension or domain — magical, ethereal, or otherwise — usually ruled or created by a mystical character.

Empire

A political unit having an extensive territory or comprising a number of territories or nations and ruled by a single supreme authority.

Realm

A taxonomic rank in the phylogeny of viruses, higher than kingdoms.

Empire

The territory included in such a unit.

Realm

A royal jurisdiction or domain; a region which is under the dominion of a king; a kingdom.
The absolute master of realms on which the sun perpetually shone.

Empire

An extensive enterprise under a unified authority:a publishing empire.

Realm

Hence, in general, province; region; country; domain; department; division; as, the realm of fancy.

Empire

Imperial or imperialistic sovereignty, domination, or control:the extension of empire to distant lands.

Realm

A domain in which something is dominant;
The untroubled kingdom of reason
A land of make-believe
The rise of the realm of cotton in the south

Empire

A political unit, typically having an extensive territory or comprising a number of territories or nations (especially one comprising one or more kingdoms) and ruled by a single supreme authority.
The Russian empire

Realm

A knowledge domain that you are interested in or are communicating about;
It was a limited domain of discourse
Here we enter the region of opinion
The realm of the occult

Empire

A political unit ruled by an emperor or empress.
The Empire of Vietnam was a short-lived client state of Japan governing Vietnam between March 11 and August 23, 1945.

Realm

The domain ruled by a king or queen

Empire

The group of states or other territories that owe allegiance to an imperial power (foreign to them), when distinguished from the native territory of that power; imperial possessions.

Empire

An expansive and powerful enterprise under the control of one person or group.
The McDonald's fast food empire

Empire

(Absolute) control, dominion, sway.

Empire

Alternative case form of Empire.

Empire

Supreme power; sovereignty; sway; dominion.
Over hell extendHis empire, and with iron scepter rule.

Empire

The dominion of an emperor; the territory or countries under the jurisdiction and dominion of an emperor (rarely of a king), usually of greater extent than a kingdom, always comprising a variety in the nationality of, or the forms of administration in, constituent and subordinate portions; as, the Austrian empire.
Empire carries with it the idea of a vast and complicated government.

Empire

Any dominion; supreme control; governing influence; rule; sway; as, the empire of mind or of reason.
Another force which, in the Middle Ages, shared with chivalry the empire over the minds of men.

Empire

The domain ruled by an emperor or empress

Empire

A group of countries under a single authority;
The British empire

Empire

A monarchy with an emperor as head of state

Empire

A group of diverse companies under common ownership and run as a single organization

Empire

An eating apple that somewhat resembles a McIntosh; used as both an eating and a cooking apple

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