Noun
- 1. sphere, domain, area, orbit, field, arena, environment
- usage: a particular environment or walk of life; "his social sphere is limited"; "it was a closed area of employment"; "he's out of my orbit"
- 2. domain, demesne, land, region
- usage: territory over which rule or control is exercised; "his domain extended into Europe"; "he made it the law of the land"
- 3. domain, domain of a function, set
- usage: (mathematics) the set of values of the independent variable for which a function is defined
- 4. world, domain, class, stratum, social class, socio-economic class
- usage: people in general; especially a distinctive group of people with some shared interest; "the Western world"
- 5. knowledge domain, knowledge base, domain, content, cognitive content, mental object
- usage: the content of a particular field of knowledge
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