Other forms: territories
Territory is land under the control of a ruler or an animal. Enemy territory, defend the territory, uncharted territory.
In animals it is a defended area rather than a range, and the defence is usually by song and display rather than by fighting. Comes with the territory is the phrase for an unpleasant part of a job that cannot be separated from it.
1nounterritoryLand under the control of a ruler or an animal.
“The army crossed the river into enemy territory at night.”
territory is land.
Latin territorium means the land round a town, from terra, earth or land.
Proto-Indo-European
*ters-
Latin
territōrium
Middle English
territorie
English, today
territory
Middle English territorie, from Latin territōrium.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA