Territorial Meaning
/ˌtɛɹ.ɪˈtɔː.ɹi.əl/Definition, CEFR level B2, pronunciation, examples, and quiz.
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Definition
adjOf, relating to, or restricted to a specific geographic area, or territory.
adjOf or relating to geography or territory.
Sentence Examples
Cats can be quite territorial creatures.
Tawny owls are highly territorial.
After 1946 the British Government treated the four territorial divisions as a single unit.
CEFR Practice Quiz
Male lions are extremely ____, always defending their pride's area from other lions.
CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)
Many birds are very ____ and will fight to defend their nesting area from any other birds that come too close today.
Word Origin & History
Borrowed from Late Latin territorialis, from Latin territorium; equivalent to territory + -al.
Literary Quotations & Historical Citations
"Rumania, Serbia, and Montenegro should be evacuated ; occupied territories restored ; Serbia accorded free and secure access to the sea ; and the relations of the several Balkan states to one another determined by friendly counsel along historically established lines of allegiance and nationality ; and international guarantees of the political and economic independence and territorial integrity of the several Balkan states should be entered into."
— 1918, Woodrow Wilson, Fourteen Points, pages 6–7:
"Studies have narrowed the territorial focus to signage used in specific cities, townships, suburbs, precincts, etc."
— 2019, Li Huang, James Lambert, “Another Arrow for the Quiver: A New Methodology for Multilingual Researchers”, in Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, →DOI, page 2:
"The territorials initiated about as many ground contacts (7,175) as the communists initiated against them (7,391) and more than those initiated by the army. As expected, the enemy attacked the territorials almost three times as often as it did the army."
— 2013, Ira A. Hunt Jr., Losing Vietnam: How America Abandoned Southeast Asia, University Press of Kentucky, →ISBN, page 166:
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CEFR Practice Quiz
Male lions are extremely ____, always defending their pride's area from other lions.
CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)
Many birds are very ____ and will fight to defend their nesting area from any other birds that come too close today.