realm meaning
EN
[rɛlm] [-ɛlm] 
US WRealm
- A realm /ˈrɛlm/ is a community or territory over which a sovereign rules; it is commonly used to describe a kingdom or other monarchical or dynastic state.
- The Old French word reaume, modern French royaume, was the word first adopted in English; the fixed modern spelling does not appear until the beginning of the 17th century.
- "Realm" is particularly used for those states whose name includes the word kingdom (for example, the United Kingdom), as elegant variation, to avoid clumsy repetition of the word in a sentence (for example, "The Queen's realm, the United Kingdom...").
- NounPLrealmsPREré-
- An abstract sphere of influence, real or imagined.
- The domain of a certain abstraction.
- (formal or law) A territory or state, as ruled by a specific power, especially by a king.
- An abstract sphere of influence, real or imagined.
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- Used in the Middle of Sentence
- o abjure the realm (to swear to abandon it forever).
- Asturia's former margraviate Castilia became a realm itself, annexed all Asturia in 1037 and turned it into a titular principality as Castilia's (and later Spain's) royal primogeniture in 1388
- Used in the Ending of Sentence
- Just as Augustine notes that a true virgin must be a virgin physically and spiritually, so too a monk's single-heartedness of purpose in Christ cannot be left to an ethereal realm.
- Used in the Middle of Sentence
Definition of realm in English Dictionary
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Source: Wiktionary
Grammatically, this word "realm" is a noun, more specifically, a countable noun.