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Definition of territory

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Territory (n.) In the United States, a portion of the country not included within the limits of any State, and not yet admitted as a State into the Union, but organized with a separate legislature, under a Territorial governor and other officers appointed by the President and Senate of the United States. In Canada, a similarly organized portion of the country not yet formed into a Province..

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Accession :: Accession (n.) Increase by something added; that which is added; augmentation from without; as, an accession of wealth or territory..

Delawares :: Delawares (n. pl.) A tribe of Indians formerly inhabiting the valley of the Delaware River, but now mostly located in the Indian Territory..

Chinook :: Chinook (n.) A warm westerly wind from the country of the Chinooks, sometimes experienced on the slope of the Rocky Mountains, in Montana and the adjacent territory..

Town :: Town (adv. & prep.) A township; the whole territory within certain limits, less than those of a country..

Ground :: Ground (n.) Any definite portion of the earth's surface; region; territory; country. Hence: A territory appropriated to, or resorted to, for a particular purpose; the field or place of action; as, a hunting or fishing ground; a play ground..

Landscape :: Landscape (n.) A portion of land or territory which the eye can comprehend in a single view, including all the objects it contains..

Electorality :: Electorality (n.) The territory or dignity of an elector; electorate.

Planter :: Planter (n.) A colonist in a new or uncultivated territory; as, the first planters in Virginia..

Region :: Region (n.) One of the grand districts or quarters into which any space or surface, as of the earth or the heavens, is conceived of as divided; hence, in general, a portion of space or territory of indefinite extent; country; province; district; tract..

Appanage :: Appanage (n.) A dependency; a dependent territory.

Township :: Township (n.) The district or territory of a town.

Beylic :: Beylic (n.) The territory ruled by a bey.

Archduchy :: Archduchy (n.) The territory of an archduke or archduchess.

Statehouse :: Statehood (n.) The condition of being a State; as, a territory seeking Statehood..

Boundary :: Boundary (n.) That which indicates or fixes a limit or extent, or marks a bound, as of a territory; a bounding or separating line; a real or imaginary limit..

Banlieue :: Banlieue (n.) The territory without the walls, but within the legal limits, of a town or city..

Dominion :: Dominion (n.) That which is governed; territory over which authority is exercised; the tract, district, or county, considered as subject; as, the dominions of a king. Also used figuratively; as, the dominion of the passions..

Landgraviate :: Landgraviate (n.) The territory held by a landgrave.

Retrocede :: Retrocede (v. t.) To cede or grant back; as, to retrocede a territory to a former proprietor..

Ballot :: Ballot (n.) The whole number of votes cast at an election, or in a given territory or electoral district..