Clues for the word "TERRITORY"
We've had 19 crossword clues used for this word, and seen it 20 times in crosswords. It was last seen in Evening Standard Easy crossword on April 17, 2026.
Definition of territory
- n. - A large extent or tract of land; a region; a country; a district.
- n. - The extent of land belonging to, or under the dominion of, a prince, state, or other form of government; often, a tract of land lying at a distance from the parent country or from the seat of government; as, the territory of a State; the territories of the East India Company.
- n. - In the United States, a portion of the country not included within the limits of any State, and not yet admitted as a State into the Union, but organized with a separate legislature, under a Territorial governor and other officers appointed by the President and Senate of the United States. In Canada, a similarly organized portion of the country not yet formed into a Province.
Referring Clues
- Area
- End of the cause (Part 5)
- Geographical area
- Field of knowledge
- Guam, to the U.S.
- Land - there's failure to include it within the borders of Turkey
- Dread adopting digital applications on unknown ground
- Region
- Fabric covering it or patch
- What is human but loveless - one politician establishing dominion
- Possession of just the thing, when in dread at day's end
- I finally went in terror to unknown land
- Political land mass
- Awful riot described by boy in region
- District
- One's area
- Tract of land
- Unceded ___
- Nunavut or Yukon
Last Seen In
- Evening Standard Easy - April 17, 2026
- Penny Dell Daily - June 03, 2024
- Penny Dell Daily - March 07, 2024
- USA Today - June 02, 2023
- USA Today - August 25, 2022
- King Syndicate - Eugene Sheffer - February 06, 2018
- Guardian Cryptic - August 15, 2017
- Guardian Cryptic - November 23, 2016
- Pat Sajack's Code Letter - September 29, 2015
- Guardian Cryptic - July 31, 2015
- USA Today - March 31, 2014
- Guardian Everyman - September 30, 2012
- Pat Sajack's Code Letter - March 02, 2009
- Guardian Cryptic - November 10, 2008
- Guardian Speedy - March 02, 2008
- Guardian Quick - January 07, 2006
- USA Today - October 13, 2005
- Guardian Cryptic - May 26, 2004
- Guardian Quiptic - September 15, 2003
- New York Times - January 25, 2002