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territory
Part of speech: NounA large tract of land; region; district; entire extent of land and water under the control of one ruler or government: Territory, in the United States, a region, sometimes undeveloped, under a temporary government, that may become a State; as, Alaska Territory.
Usage examples "territory":- But we cannot regard an agricultural future as promising for the new territory. - "On Something", H. Belloc.
- The present Wisconsin was a part of this great territory. - "Stories of the Badger State", Reuben Gold Thwaites.
- Two of their number, however, had explored the southern portion of the Territory in the preceding July. - "Thirty Years in the Itinerancy", Wesson Gage Miller.