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PRINCIPALITY
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Territory ruled by a prince
Synonyms:
princedom; principality
Classified under:
Nouns denoting spatial position
Hypernyms ("principality" is a kind of...):
demesne; domain; land (territory over which rule or control is exercised)
Instance hyponyms:
Cambria; Cymru; Wales (one of the four countries that make up the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland; during Roman times the region was known as Cambria)
Monaco; Principality of Monaco (a constitutional monarchy in a tiny enclave on the French Riviera)
Muscovy (a Russian principality in the 13th to 16th centuries; Moscow was the capital)
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