Meaning & use
demesne
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land attached to a manor or estate that is kept for the owner's own use, or more broadly, a region under someone's control
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The lord's demesne included the fields closest to the castle.
Critics called the scandal-plagued agency the minister's personal demesne.
A note on using this word
A historical and legal term from feudal England; today it's mostly used in historical writing or figuratively to mean a person's private domain or sphere of control.
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