Dictionary entry

Territory

Pronunciation: /ˈtɛrɪt(ə)ri/

Pronunciation

/ˈtɛrɪt(ə)ri/

Myanmar Meaning

(n) မြေ။ ပိုင်နက်။ နယ်မြေ။ မြေမျိုး။ အမေရိကန်ပြည်ထောင်စု၊ဩစတြေးလျ၊ကနေဒါတွင်ပြည်နယ်အဆင့်အောက်ဒေသ။ နယ်။ နယ်ပယ်။ နယ်ဝန်း။ ပိုင်နက်။ စိတ်ဝင်စားရာ၊ကျက်စားရာ၊ပိုင်နိုင်ရာနယ်ပယ်၊ပိုင်နက်။

Definition

territory /'terǝtri; US -tↄ:ri/ n ၁။ [C, U] ေျမ။ ပိုင္နက္။ နယ္ေျမ။ Turkish territory ❍ occupying enemy territory ❍ conquer new territories. ၂။ [U] ေျမ (မ်ဳိး)။ fertile territory. ၃။ Territory [C] (အေမရိကန္ျပည္ေထာင္စု၊ ဩစေၾတးလ်၊ ကေနဒါတြင္ ျပည္နယ္အဆင့္ ေအာက္) ေဒသ။ North West Territory. ၄။ [C, U] နယ္။ နယ္ပယ္။ နယ္ဝန္း။ Our representatives cover a very large territory. ၅။ [C, U] ပိုင္နက္။ He seems to regard that end of the office as his territory. ❍ Mating blackbirds will defend their territory against intruders. ၆။ [U] (စိတ္ဝင္စားရာ၊ က်က္စားရာ၊ ပိုင္ႏိုင္ရာ) နယ္ပယ္၊ ပိုင္နက္။ Legal problems are Andrew's territory (ie He handles them). ❍ Mail-order business is very much unknown territory for us.

Examples

  1. The French army invaded the Austrian territories of Piedmont and Lombardy.
  2. [occupied territory] : They are still refusing to withdraw troops from the occupied territories.
  3. US territories and possessions
  4. A lion will fearlessly defend its territory and family.
  5. Male birds compete for territories and mates.
  6. The Water Authority’s territory covers 5
  7. 000 square miles.
  8. These two rooms are my territory
  9. so stay out.
  10. He kicked the ball deep into United’s territory.
  11. Social work is familiar territory to her.