Synonyms for TERRITORY
ˈtɛr ɪˌtɔr i, -ˌtoʊr iter·ri·to·ry

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1. territory

   Synonyms:
   center, citadel, estate, inside, interior, land, region

   Antonyms:
   barrier, border, bound, boundary, bourn, bourne, confines, edge, enclosure, frontier, landmark, limit, line, marches, marge, margin, term, termination, verge

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1. territory

   Synonyms:
   province, region, domain, country

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1. district, territory, territorial dominion, dominionnoun

   a region marked off for administrative or other purposes

   Synonyms:
   rule, soil, territory, dominion, district, territorial dominion

2. territorynoun

   an area of knowledge or interest

   "his questions covered a lot of territory"

   Synonyms:
   soil, dominion, district, territorial dominion

3. territory, soilnoun

   the geographical area under the jurisdiction of a sovereign state

   "American troops were stationed on Japanese soil"

   Synonyms:
   grunge, grease, filth, territory, dirt, territorial dominion, ground, district, soil, stain, land, grime, dominion

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1. habitat

   the place of where one dwells and holds ownership.

   home ground.

   Submitted by JP03 on November 24, 2014  

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1. territorynoun

   Synonyms:
   country, domain, district, quarter, province, land

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1. territorynoun

   Synonyms:
   province, region, district

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1. List of paraphrases for "territory":

   territories, territorial, land, territoire, territorio, soil, lands, area, turf, region, country, ground, earth, province, jurisdiction, homeland

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1. Ted Cruz:

   I got ahead of it on being born in the Canal Zone when I was running in 2008, i said, 'Look, there is a precedent set: Barry Goldwater ran for president; was born in Arizona when it was a territory.' The Panama Canal was a territory of the United States of America.

2. Dirk Hebel:

   They use ashes for landfill to extend the territory.

3. Abu Atwey:

   We've stopped ISIS more than 20 times. We went out with more than 50 cars and kicked them back, we told them they aren't allowed in our territory. We didn't shoot one bullet because if there was one bullet shot, there would be a (tribal) war.

4. Thomas Nybo:

   This region is no stranger to earthquakes, a lot of people had the same feeling : This is a tremor, it passed. When that wasn't the case, they were in uncharted territory... It's basically an unwritten book.

5. Philip Hammond:

   This man (Putin) has sent troops across an international border and occupied another country's territory in the 21st century acting like some mid-20th century tyrant. Civilized nations do not behave like that.