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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