DOMINION

Dominion

Dominions were autonomous polities that were nominally under British sovereignty, constituting the British Empire and British Commonwealth, beginning in the later part of the 19th century. They have included Canada, Australia, Pakistan, India, Ceylon, New Zealand, Newfoundland, the Union of South Africa, and the Irish Free State. Over the decades after 1930, the British dominions each became independent of the United Kingdom. Those that became sovereign constitutional monarchies within the Commonwealth of Nations and maintained as their own the same royal house and royal succession from before independence became known after the year 1953 as Commonwealth realms.

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dominion

Noun

  1. Power or the use of power; sovereignty over something; supremacy.
  2. predominance; ascendancy
  3. A kingdom, nation, or other sphere of influence; governed territory.
    the dominions of a king
    the dominion of the passions
  4. One of the colonies of the British Empire given self-government through the Statute of Westminster, such as Canada or Newfoundland.
  5. An order of angel in Christian angelology, ranked above angels and below thrones.


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