residential area vs dominion

residential area and dominion both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
residential area	Yes	No	No	No
dominion	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, dominion is a hypernym of residential area; that is, dominion is a word with a broader meaning than residential area:

residential area: a district where people live; occupied primarily by private residences
dominion: a region marked off for administrative or other purposes

Other hypernyms of residential area include district, territorial dominion, territory.

residential area (noun)	dominion (noun)
a district where people live; occupied primarily by private residences	a region marked off for administrative or other purposes
	dominance or power through legal authority