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