territory

Definition

A large extent or tract of land; for example a region, country or district.

Etymology

Inherited from Middle English territorie, from Latin territōrium.

Example Sentences

• "Lewis of France had his infancy attended by crafty and worldly men, who made extent of territory the most glorious instance of power, and mistook the acquisition of fame, for the spreading of honour."
• "Economics is a messy discipline: too fluid to be a science, too rigorous to be an art. Perhaps it is fitting that economists’ most-used metric, gross domestic product (GDP), is a tangle too. GDP measures the total value of output in an economic territory. Its apparent simplicity explains why it is scrutinised down to tenths of a percentage point every month."
• "Scotland had the territory and the momentum, forcing England into almost twice as many tackles and rattling them repeatedly at set-pieces."