home territory

1. 1.

   the area in which an animal normally ranges

   Synonymshome range

   Broaderrange

Questions about home territory

What does home territory mean?

home territory means "the area in which an animal normally ranges".

What is another word for home territory?

Close synonyms include home range. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is home territory a common word?

home territory is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.