territorial

• POS: Adjective, Noun
• HYPHEN: ter=ri=to=ri=al

CIDE DICTIONARY

territorial, a. [L. territorialis: cf. F. territorial.].

•  Of or pertaining to territory or land; as, territorial limits; territorial jurisdiction.  [1913 Webster]
•  Limited to a certain district; as, right may be personal or territorial.  [1913 Webster]
•  Of or pertaining to all or any of the Territories of the United States, or to any district similarly organized elsewhere; as, Territorial governments.  [1913 Webster]
•  exhibiting territoriality; -- of individual animals or species.  [PJC]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

territorial, adj. & n.
--adj.
1 of territory (territorial possessions).
2 limited to a district (the right was strictly territorial).
3 (of a person or animal etc.) tending to defend an area of territory.
4 (usu. Territorial) of any of the Territories of the US or Canada.
--n. (Territorial) (in the UK) a member of the Territorial Army.

Idiom

Territorial Army (in the UK) a volunteer force locally organized to provide a reserve of trained and disciplined manpower for use in an emergency (known as Territorial and Army Volunteer Reserve 1967-79). territorial waters the waters under the jurisdiction of a State, esp. the part of the sea within a stated distance of the shore (traditionally three miles from low-water mark).

Derivative

territoriality n. territorialize v.tr. (also -ise). territorialization n. territorially adv.

Etymology

LL territorialis (as TERRITORY)

ROGET THESAURUS

territorial

Region

N region, sphere, ground, soil, area, field, realm, hemisphere, quarter, district, beat, orb, circuit, circle, reservation, pale, compartment, department, clearing, (property) &c 780 (Government), 1 arena, precincts, enceinte, walk, march, patch, plot, parcel, inclosure, close, field, court, enclave, reserve, preserve, street, clime, climate, zone, meridian, latitude, biosphere, lithosphere, territorial, local, parochial, provincial, regional.

Land

N land, earth, ground, dry land, terra firma, continent, mainland, peninsula, chersonese, delta, tongue of land, neck of land, isthmus, oasis, promontory, highland, coast, shore, scar, strand, beach, playa, bank, lea, seaboard, seaside, seabank, seacoast, seabeach, ironbound coast, loom of the land, derelict, innings, alluvium, alluvion, ancon, riverbank, river bank, levee, soil, glebe, clay, loam, marl, cledge, chalk, gravel, mold, subsoil, clod, clot, rock, crag, acres, real estate, landsman, earthy, continental, midland, coastal, littoral, riparian, alluvial, terrene, landed, predial, territorial, geophilous, ripicolous, ashore, on shore, on land.