An article published in Harvard Men’s Health Watch in 2012 shows heavy coffee drinkers live longer. The researchers examined data from 400,000 people and found out that men who drank six or more coffee cups per day had a 10% lower death rate.
REALM
region, realm
(noun) a knowledge domain that you are interested in or are communicating about; “it was a limited realm of discourse”; “here we enter the region of opinion”; “the realm of the occult”
kingdom, realm
(noun) the domain ruled by a king or queen
kingdom, land, realm
(noun) a domain in which something is dominant; “the untroubled kingdom of reason”; “a land of make-believe”; “the rise of the realm of cotton in the south”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Noun
realm (plural realms)
An abstract sphere of influence, real or imagined.
The domain of a certain abstraction.
(computing) A scope of operation in networking or security.
(formal or legal) A territory or state, as ruled by a specific power, especially by a king.
(fantasy, RPG) An otherworldly dimension or domain — magical, ethereal, or otherwise — usually ruled or created by a mystical character.
(virology, taxonomy) A taxonomic rank in the phylogeny of viruses, higher than kingdoms.
Synonyms
• (a territory or state): country, land, kingdom
• (a sphere of activity or influence): field, province
Anagrams
• Almer, Lamer, Lemar, Lerma, Maler, lamer, maerl, maler, marle, meral
Source: Wiktionary
Realm, n. Etym: [OE. realme, ream, reaume, OF. reialme, roialme, F. royaume, fr. (assumed) LL. regalimen, from L. regalis royal. See Regal.]
1. A royal jurisdiction or domain; a region which is under the dominion of a king; a kingdom. The absolute master of realms on which the sun perpetually alone. Motley.
2. Hence, in general, province; region; country; domain; department; division; as, the realm of fancy.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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