territorial

Borrowed from Late Latin territorialis, from Latin territorium; equivalent to territory +‎ -al.

• IPA^(key): /ˌtɛ.ɹɪˈtɔː.ɹi.əl/

territorial (comparative more territorial, superlative most territorial)

1. Of, relating to, or restricted to a specific geographic area, or territory.
2. Of or relating to geography or territory.
   • 1918, Woodrow Wilson, “Fourteen Points,” pages 6–7:

     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.

3. (often capitalized) Organized for home defence - such as the Territorial Army.
4. (biology) Displaying territoriality.

• extraterritorial
• territorial waters

territorial (plural territorials)

1. A non-professional member of a territorial army.
   • 2013, Ira A. Hunt Jr., Losing Vietnam: How America Abandoned Southeast Asia, University Press of Kentucky (→ISBN), page 166

     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.

Borrowed from Late Latin territorialis, from Latin territorium; equivalent to territori +‎ -al.

territorial (masculine and feminine plural territorials)

1. territorial

Borrowed from French territorial.

territorial

1. territorial

• “territorial” in Den Danske Ordbog

Borrowed from Late Latin territorialis, from Latin territorium; equivalent to territoire +‎ -al.

territorial (feminine singular territoriale, masculine plural territoriaux, feminine plural territoriales)

1. territorial

territorial m (plural territoriaux)

1. territorial

• “territorial” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

• IPA^(key): [tɛʀitoˈʀi̯aːl]

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• Hyphenation: ter‧ri‧to‧ri‧al

territorial (not comparable)

1. territorial

• Territorialgewalt
• Territorialhoheit
• Territorialprinzip
• Territorialstaat

• territorial in Duden online

From French territorial, from Late Latin territorialis.

territorial (masculine and feminine territorial, neuter territorialt, definite singular and plural territoriale)

1. territorial

• “territorial” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
• “territorial” in Det Norske Akademis ordbok (NAOB).

From French territorial, from Late Latin territorialis.

territorial (masculine and feminine territorial, neuter territorialt, definite singular and plural territoriale)

1. territorial

• “territorial” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Borrowed from Late Latin territorialis, from Latin territorium; equivalent to território +‎ -al.

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /tɨ.ʁi.tu.ˈɾjaɫ/
• Hyphenation: ter‧ri‧to‧ri‧al

territorial m or f (plural territoriais, not comparable)

1. territorial

• território

Borrowed from Late Latin territorialis, from Latin territorium; equivalent to territorio +‎ -al.

• IPA^(key): /teritoˈɾjal/, [t̪erit̪oˈɾjal]
• Hyphenation: ter‧ri‧to‧rial

territorial (plural territoriales)

1. territorial