kingdom

plural kingdoms · alternative obsolete kingdome

1. A realm having a king or queen as its actual or nominal sovereign.

   A few other key remappings occur when you use the United Kingdom country...

   1993, Allen Wyatt, W Edward Tiley, Jon Paisley, Using MS-DOS 6.2

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   In 1924 the Hashemite King Hussein was driven out of the Hedjaz by Ibn Saud, and a state of war sprang up between the new kingdoms of Saudi Arabia and Trans-Jordan.

   1956 March, R. C. Blaker, “The Hedjaz Railway”, in Railway Magazine, page 167

   ‘Lucknow is not a village. It is a city with a thousand years of civilization. It was the capital of the Awadh kingdom.ʼ

   2023, Santanu Bhattacharya, One Small Voice, Fig Tree, page 11

   Synonyms: kingship

2. A realm, region, or conceptual space where something is dominant.

   the kingdom of thought

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   the kingdom of the dead

   I had run marthastewart.com in its early years, but now my kingdom was infinitely smaller, with me in every role—including the name on the URL.

   2011, Margaret Roach, “Margaret Untethered (A Preview)”, in And I Shall Have Some Peace There […], New York, N.Y.: Grand Central Publishing, →ISBN, page 7

   Synonyms: kingric

3. biologyA rank in the classification of organisms, below domain and above phylum; a taxon at that rank (e.g. the plant kingdom, the animal kingdom).

   It has micobiont from Ascomycota and Basidiomycota belonging to kingdom Fungi and photobiont from Trebouxia species.

   2022, Dhanasekaran Dharumadurai, Microbial Symbionts, page 811

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   The Organized and inorganized kingdoms are distinguished from each other by peculiarities of chemical composition, of form and structure, and of actions or functions.

   1839, Jonathan Pereira, The Elements of Materia Medica

   Synonyms: regnum