noun
Meaning 1
The district within which a bailie or bailiff has jurisdiction.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Examples
- The Bailiwick of Jersey.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: jurisdiction
Antonyms: none provided
Standard Lemma guide
bailiwick
Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.
Sound
Pronunciation
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bā'lĭ-wĭk
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/ˈbeɪ.lɪ.wɪk/
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CMU ARPABET: B EY1 L IH0 W IH2 K Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
noun
Meaning 2
A person's concern or sphere of operations, their area of skill or authority.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: broadly
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: domain, department, sphere, province, territory, turf, wheelhouse
Antonyms: none provided
noun
Meaning 3
a branch of knowledge
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- in what discipline is his doctorate?
- teachers should be well trained in their subject
- anthropology is the study of human beings
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: discipline, subject, subject area, subject field, field, field of study, study
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: knowledge domain, knowledge base, domain
Narrower terms: occultism, communications, communication theory, major, frontier, genealogy, allometry, bibliotics, ology, science, scientific discipline, architecture, engineering, engineering science, applied science, technology, futurology, futuristics, humanistic discipline, humanities, liberal arts, arts, theology, divinity, military science, escapology, graphology, numerology, protology, theogony
noun
Meaning 4
the area over which a bailiff has jurisdiction
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: jurisdiction
History
Etymology
From bailie (“bailiff”) and wick (“dwelling”), from Old English wīc.
Across languages
Translations
24 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Dutch: meierij — precincts within which a bailiff has jurisdiction
- Dutch: baljuwschap — precincts within which a bailiff has jurisdiction
- French: bailliage — precincts within which a bailiff has jurisdiction
- German: Vogtei — precincts within which a bailiff has jurisdiction
- Icelandic: fógetaumdæmi — precincts within which a bailiff has jurisdiction
- Italian: bailiato — precincts within which a bailiff has jurisdiction
- Manx: bayleeaght — precincts within which a bailiff has jurisdiction
- Manx: bayleeys — precincts within which a bailiff has jurisdiction
- Polish: baliwat — precincts within which a bailiff has jurisdiction
- Russian: бейливик (bejlivik) — precincts within which a bailiff has jurisdiction
- Spanish: bailía — precincts within which a bailiff has jurisdiction
- Swedish: verksamhetsområde — precincts within which a bailiff has jurisdiction
- Dutch: gezag — area or subject of authority or involvement
- Dutch: domein — area or subject of authority or involvement
- Dutch: competentie — area or subject of authority or involvement
- French: bailliage — area or subject of authority or involvement
- French: compétence — area or subject of authority or involvement
- French: autorité — area or subject of authority or involvement
- Icelandic: þekkingarsvið — area or subject of authority or involvement
- Icelandic: starfssvið — area or subject of authority or involvement
- Icelandic: áhugasvið — area or subject of authority or involvement
- Icelandic: valdsvið — area or subject of authority or involvement
- Serbo-Croatian: nadležnost — area or subject of authority or involvement
- Spanish: bailía — area or subject of authority or involvement