TERRITORIAL

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does territorial mean? 

• TERRITORIAL (noun)
  The noun TERRITORIAL has 2 senses:

1. nonprofessional soldier member of a territorial military unit

2. a territorial military unit

  Familiarity information: TERRITORIAL used as a noun is rare.

• TERRITORIAL (adjective)
  The adjective TERRITORIAL has 3 senses:

1. of or relating to a territory

2. displaying territoriality; defending a territory from intruders

3. belonging to the territory of any state or ruler

  Familiarity information: TERRITORIAL used as an adjective is uncommon.

 Dictionary entry details 

• TERRITORIAL (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Nonprofessional soldier member of a territorial military unit

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Hypernyms ("territorial" is a kind of...):

soldier (an enlisted man or woman who serves in an army)

Domain category:

armed forces; armed services; military; military machine; war machine (the military forces of a nation)

Holonyms ("territorial" is a member of...):

home reserve; National Guard (United States military reserves recruited by the states and equipped by the federal government; subject to call by either)

Territorial Army (British unit of nonprofessional soldiers organized for the defense of Great Britain)

Sense 2

Meaning:

A territorial military unit

Classified under:

Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects

Synonyms:

territorial; territorial reserve

Hypernyms ("territorial" is a kind of...):

guard (a military unit serving to protect some place or person)

Domain category:

armed forces; armed services; military; military machine; war machine (the military forces of a nation)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "territorial"):

home reserve; National Guard (United States military reserves recruited by the states and equipped by the federal government; subject to call by either)

Territorial Army (British unit of nonprofessional soldiers organized for the defense of Great Britain)

Holonyms ("territorial" is a part of...):

militia; reserves (civilians trained as soldiers but not part of the regular army)

• TERRITORIAL (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Of or relating to a territory

Classified under:

Relational adjectives (pertainyms)

Context example:

territorial claims made by a country

Pertainym:

territory (a region marked off for administrative or other purposes)

Derivation:

territory (the geographical area under the jurisdiction of a sovereign state)

territory (a region marked off for administrative or other purposes)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Displaying territoriality; defending a territory from intruders

Context example:

strongly territorial birds

Domain category:

biological science; biology (the science that studies living organisms)

Antonym:

nonterritorial (not displaying territoriality)

Derivation:

territoriality (the behavior of a male animal that defines and defends its territory)

Sense 3

Meaning:

Belonging to the territory of any state or ruler

Context example:

territorial rights

Similar:

jurisdictional (restricted to the geographic area under a particular jurisdiction)

regional (related or limited to a particular region)

sectional (related or limited to a distinct region or subdivision of a territory or community or group of people)

Antonym:

extraterritorial (outside territorial limits or jurisdiction)

 Context examples 

A region created by territorial division for the purpose of local government.

(County, NCI Thesaurus)

Norway and Iceland allow hunting in their territorial waters.

(Brazil to support South Atlantic whale sanctuary bid, Agência BRASIL)

Such a murder case, occurring before the instalment of territorial law and officials, might well have been taken down to the United States for trial before a Federal court.

(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)