Synonyms of the word

reign

• n. The exercise of sovereign power.
• n. The period during which a monarch rules.
• n. The territory or sphere over which a kingdom; empire; realm; dominion, etc. is ruled.
• v. (transitive, intransitive) To exercise sovereign power, or to rule as a monarch.

age

• n. The whole duration of a being being alive, whether animal, vegetable, or other kind.
• n. The amount of full years/months/days/hours etc. which someone, or something, has been alive.
• n. (uncountable) That part of the duration of a being or a thing which is between its beginning and any given…
• n. (uncountable) The latter part of life; an advanced period of life, eld; seniority; state of being old.
• n. (countable) One of the stages of life.
• n. (uncountable) Mature age; especially, the time of life at which one attains full personal rights and capacities.
• n. (countable) The time of life at which some particular power or capacity is understood to become vested.
• n. (countable) A particular period of time in history, as distinguished from others.
• n. (countable) A great period in the history of the Earth.
• n. (countable) A century; the period of one hundred years.
• n. The people who live at a particular period.
• n. (countable) A generation.
• n. (countable, hyperbolic) A long time.
• n. (poker) The right of the player to the left of the dealer to pass the first round in betting, and then…
• v. (transitive) To cause to grow old; to impart the characteristics of age to.
• v. (transitive, figuratively) To postpone an action that would extinguish something, as a debt.
• v. (transitive, accounting) To categorize by age.
• v. (intransitive) To grow aged; to become old; to show marks of age.

dominate

• v. To govern, rule or control by superior authority or power.
• v. To exert an overwhelming guiding influence over something or someone.
• v. To enjoy a commanding position in some field.
• v. To overlook from a height.

dominion

• n. Power or the use of power; sovereignty over something; stewardship, supremacy.
• n. predominance; ascendancy.
• n. (sometimes figuratively) A kingdom, nation, or other sphere of influence; governed territory.
• n. (historical) One of the dependencies of the British Empire given self-government and eventually independence,…
• n. (Biblical tradition) An order of angel in Christian angelology, ranked above angels and below thrones.

govern

• v. (transitive) To make and administer the public policy and affairs of; to exercise sovereign authority…
• v. (transitive) To control the actions or behavior of; to keep under control; to restrain.
• v. (transitive) To exercise a deciding or determining influence on.
• v. (transitive) To control the speed, flow etc. of; to regulate.
• v. (intransitive) To exercise political authority; to run a government.
• v. (intransitive) To have or exercise a determining influence.
• v. (transitive, grammar) To require that a certain preposition, grammatical case, etc. be used with a word;…

period

• adj. Appropriate for a given historical era.
• adj. (of a film, or play, or similar) Set in and designed to evoke a particular historical period, especially…
• interj. (chiefly Canada, US) And nothing else; and nothing less; used for emphasis.
• n. A length of time.
• n. A period of time in history seen as a single coherent entity; an epoch, era.
• n. (now chiefly Canada, US) The punctuation mark “.” (indicating the ending of a sentence or marking an abbreviation).
• n. The length of time during which the same characteristics of a periodic phenomenon recur, such as the repetition…
• n. Female menstruation.
• n. A section of an artist's, writer's (etc.) career distinguished by a given quality, preoccupation etc.
• n. Each of the divisions into which a school day is split, allocated to a given subject or activity.
• n. (chiefly Canada, US) Each of the intervals into which various sporting events are divided.
• n. (obsolete, medicine) The length of time for a disease to run its course.
• n. An end or conclusion; the final point of a process etc.
• n. (rhetoric) A complete sentence, especially one expressing a single thought or making a balanced, rhythmic…
• n. (obsolete) A specific moment during a given process; a point, a stage.
• n. (chemistry) A row in the periodic table of the elements.
• n. (geology) A subdivision of an era, typically lasting from tens to hundreds of millions of years, see Appendix:…
• n. (genetics) A Drosophila gene which gene product is involved in regulation of the circadian rhythm.
• n. (music) Two phrases (an antecedent and a consequent phrase).
• n. (mathematics) One of several similar sets of figures or terms usually marked by points or commas placed…
• v. (obsolete, intransitive) To come to a period; to conclude.
• v. (obsolete, transitive, rare) To put an end to.

predominate

• v. (intransitive) To dominate, have control, or succeed by superior numbers or size.
• v. (intransitive) To be prominent; to loom large; to be the chief component of a whole.
• v. (transitive) To dominate or hold power over, especially through numerical advantage; to outweigh.
• adj. Predominant.

prevail

• v. (intransitive) To be superior in strength, dominance, influence or frequency; to have or gain the advantage…
• v. (intransitive) To be current, widespread or predominant; to have currency or prevalence.
• v. (intransitive) To succeed in persuading or inducing.

rule

• n. A regulation, law, guideline.
• n. A ruler; device for measuring, a straightedge, a measure.
• n. A straight line (continuous mark, as made by a pen or the like), especially one lying across a paper as…
• n. A regulating principle.
• n. The act of ruling; administration of law; government; empire; authority; control.
• n. A normal condition or state of affairs.
• n. (obsolete) Conduct; behaviour.
• n. (law) An order regulating the practice of the courts, or an order made between parties to an action or…
• n. (mathematics) A determinate method prescribed for performing any operation and producing a certain result.
• n. (printing, dated) A thin plate of brass or other metal, of the same height as the type, and used for printing…
• v. (transitive) To regulate, be in charge of, make decisions for, reign over.
• v. (slang, intransitive) To excel.
• v. (transitive) To mark (paper or the like) with rules (lines).
• v. (intransitive) To decide judicially.
• v. (transitive) To establish or settle by, or as by, a rule; to fix by universal or general consent, or by…

sovereignty

• n. (of a polity) The state of making laws and controlling resources without the coercion of other nations.
• n. (of a ruler) Supreme authority over all things.
• n. (of a person) The liberty to decide one's thoughts and actions.