Kingdom - definition, pronunciation, transcription
noun
- the domain ruled by a king or queen (syn: realm)
- a monarchy with a king or queen as head of state
- the highest taxonomic group into which organisms are grouped; one of five biological categories: Monera or Protoctista or Plantae or Fungi or Animalia
- a basic group of natural objects
Extra examples
After Queen Mary I died, her half sister Elizabeth ruled the kingdom.
...a studio head who was once the undisputed ruler of the kingdom of Hollywood...
United Kingdom
The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
...the preacher warned that those who were interested only in carnal pursuits would not see the kingdom of heaven...
...the Egyptian mummy was carefully disinterred in hopes that it would yield secrets about the Old Kingdom...
...the kingdom's royal kindred actually numbers in the thousands...
...it's axiomatic that the instinct for self-preservation is universal throughout the animal kingdom...
The whole kingdom, a small corner excepted, was subjected to the Turkish yoke.
The other territories of the kingdom were hackled and torn to pieces.
It is not a good place to enquire, when the Egyptian Kingdom was first founded.
God's heavenly kingdom
He left the gas on and nearly blew us all to kingdom come.
Edgar ruled over the Church as well as his temporal kingdom.
The biggest spender in the United Kingdom is the public sector, which will have an annual budget of over £500 billion by 2006.
Word forms
singular: kingdom
plural: kingdoms
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