A Realm is a primary synonym for a world usually other than our own. The word realm is often used in fantasy books or movies. Various theories have been supposed which used realms to explain how time moves. The World in plate carrée projection The World In English, world is rooted in a compound of the obsolete words were, man, and eld, age; thus, its oldest meaning is age or life of man. Its primary modern meaning is the planet Earth, especially when capitalized: the World. ... Fantasy is a genre of art, literature, film, television, and music that uses magic and other supernatural forms as a primary element of either plot, theme, setting, or all three. ...

• Realm is also an old term still used as an alternative word for kingdom. It is particularly used for those states whose name includes the word Kingdom (for example, the United Kingdom), to avoid clumsy repetition of the word in a sentence. (For example, "The Queen's realm, the United Kingdom...".)

It frequently used to refer to territories "under" a monarch, yet not a physical part of his or her "kingdom"; for example, the various Commonwealth Realms under the British crown, in Realm of Sweden, or to Holstein that until the Second War on Schleswig was an important part of the Danish king's realm stretching to the border of Hamburg, although not a part of the Danish kingdom. Similarly, the Cook Islands, Niue, and Tokelau are considered parts of the Realm of New Zealand, though they are not part of New Zealand proper. Likewise, the Faroe Islands and Greenland remain parts of the Danish Realm. A monarchy, (from the Greek monos, one, and archein, to rule) is a form of government that has a monarch as Head of State. ... A Commonwealth Realm is any one of the 16 sovereign states that recognize Queen Elizabeth II as their Queen and head of state. ... The Realm of Sweden or Svenska väldet is a term that historically was used to comprise all the territories under the control of the Swedish monarchs. ... Holstein (Hol-shtayn) (Low German: Holsteen, Danish: Holsten, Latin and historical English: Holsatia) is the southern part of Schleswig-Holstein in Germany, between the rivers Elbe, Eider, and the Schlei firth. ... Second war of Schleswig also known as Danish war or Danish-Prussian war in 1864 was fought between Denmark and Prussia. ... Alster Lake at dusk Hamburg is the second largest city in Germany and with the Hamburg Harbour, its principal port. ... The Realm of New Zealand is the territory in which the Queen in right of New Zealand is head of state. ...

See also: Reich, Rike ▶ (help· info) (), is the German word for realm or empire, cognate with Scandinavian rike and Dutch rijk. ... Rike is the Swedish and Norwegian word for realm, of similar meaning as German reich, in Danish spelled rige. ...

• In Java-J2EE realm terms a database containing users, usergroups and their roles (sets of permissions to access server-resources). Optionally a realm manages user-passwords, certificates and authentication logic. Also a realm can refer to a web domain.

• Gaming - in the MMORPG World of Warcraft the term realm is used interchangeably with a computer gaming server (some MMORPG’s use the term Shard to describe a gaming server.)

• The Realm was the name of a BBS and underground community of computer hackers based in Melbourne, Australia in the late 1980s. Its most notable members were Phoenix and Electron, who were both arrested by the Australian Federal Police in April 1990 in Australia's first major computer hacker bust.