This post is in response to Heena Rathore P.’s Word of the Week (WOW). This weekly meme is a great way of improving your vocabulary. If you wish to participate, simply create a post with your word and leave a link in a comment on Heena’s WOW post.
Here’s my WOW for this week:
Word
Bailiwick
Part of Speech
noun
Pronunciation
bail-i-wick (bā′lə-wĭk′)
Meaning
- A person’s specific area of interest, skill or authority
- The office or district of a bailiff.
Synonyms
- department, discipline, domain, field, field of study, sphere, study, subject, subject area, subject field, territory, turf
- area, beat, district, jurisdiction, neighbourhood, province, territory,
Word Origin
Middle English – bailliwik – baillif bailiff + wik town (from Old English wic, from Latin vicus)
Use in a sentence
- The professor was in his element, babbling on about things from within his bailiwick that no one else present had any understanding of.
- He had been appointed bailiff, making this his bailiwick now – and there was nothing that Richard De Grenville could do about it.
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An Enchanted Place 
I have always loved this word, but I don’t always remember it. Thanks for the reminder — I’m going to use it in my next post! 🙂
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It’s a great word – one of my favourites. 🙂 I’m glad you like it too. Thanks for commenting.
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A fascinating word, one of obvious importance to writers of Mediaeval fiction. 🙂
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Very interesting. “A bailiwick is usually the area of jurisdiction of a bailiff, and once also applied to territories in which a privately appointed bailiff exercised the sheriff’s functions under a royal or imperial writ. The word is now more generally used in a metaphorical sense, to indicate a sphere of authority, experience, activity, study, or interest” …
I love this word… It makes want to drink some Bailey’s!~ Toast to those bailiffs 😉
Aquileana 😀
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I’ve always found it an interesting word. And you don’t need an excuse to drink Baileys! Thanks for commenting. 🙂
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A very interesting word! I’ll try and use it in my future posts! 🙂
That for sharing such a lovely word Louise! 🙂
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Thank you, Heena. 🙂
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You’re welcome!
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