りょうど
Meanings
Adjective (の)
Noun
1. dominion; territory; possession
Pitch accent
りょ
うど
Composed of
territory (of country, feudal domain, etc.); (arch.) counter for suits of clothing, sets of armor, etc.
Saturday; earth; dirt; land; lands; earth (third of the five elements)
Used in vocabulary (8 in total)
Southern Kuril Islands (held by Russia, claimed by Japan); Northern Territories
territorial dispute; territorial issue
violation of territorial sovereignty; intrusion into territory
Examples (8 in total)
They increased the territory of the empire.
That island is American territory.
The armed forces occupied the entire territory.
Angola was once a Portuguese territory.
The armed forces succeeded in occupying the entire territory.
They extended their territory by conquest.
Twelve percent of Russia's territory is covered in swamps.
They controlled a fifth part of the territory.