kingdom
nounAU, US, UK /ˈkɪŋdəm/ · NZ /ˈkəŋdəm/
Etymology
From Middle English kingdom, kyngdom, from Old English cyningdōm from Proto-Germanic *kuningadōmaz, equivalent to king + -dom. Cognate with Scots kingdom, West Frisian keuningdom, Dutch koningdom, German Königtum, Danish kongedømme, Swedish kungadöme, and Icelandic konungdómur. Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *ǵenh₁- Proto-Indo-European *-yós Proto-Germanic *kunją Proto-Indo-European *-n̥kʷo-der.? Proto-Indo-European *-nós Proto-Indo-European *-iHnos Proto-Germanic *-īnaz Proto-Indo-European *-kos Proto-Germanic *-gaz ? Proto-Germanic *-ingaz Proto-Germanic *kuningaz Proto-Indo-European *dʰeh₁- Proto-Indo-European *-mos Proto-Indo-European *dʰóh₁mos Proto-Germanic *dōmaz Proto-Germanic *-dōmaz Proto-Germanic *kuningadōmaz Proto-West Germanic *kuningadōm Old English cyningdōm Middle English kingdom English kingdom
A realm having a king or queen as its actual or nominal sovereign.
- 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:
- 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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- ‘Lucknow is not a village. It is a city with a thousand years of civilization. It was the capital of the Awadh kingdom.ʼ2023, Santanu Bhattacharya, One Small Voice, Fig Tree, page 11:
A realm, region, or conceptual space where something is dominant.
- the kingdom of thought
- the kingdom of the dead
Biology, Natural sciences, Taxonomy A rank in the classification of organisms, below domain and above phylum; a taxon at that rank (e.g. the plant kingdom, the animal kingdom).
- 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:
- It has micobiont from Ascomycota and Basidiomycota belonging to kingdom Fungi and photobiont from Trebouxia species.2022, Dhanasekaran Dharumadurai, Microbial Symbionts, page 811:
- Derived terms
56 terms
blow to kingdom come, Flowery Kingdom, Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan, Hawaiian Kingdom, hermit kingdom, hustle kingdom, infrakingdom, interkingdom, it is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter into the kingdom of God, keys of the kingdom, keys to the kingdom, kingdom come, Kingdom County, kingdomed, kingdomful, Kingdom in the Sky, kingdomless, Kingdom of Bahrain, Kingdom of Belgium, Kingdom of Bhutan, Kingdom of Cambodia, Kingdom of Denmark, Kingdom of England, Kingdom of Eswatini, kingdom of glory, Kingdom of Great Britain, Kingdom of Heaven, Kingdom of Ireland, Kingdom of Lesotho, Kingdom of Morocco, Kingdom of Norway, kingdom of Pisces, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, Kingdom of Scotland, Kingdom of Spain, Kingdom of Sweden, Kingdom of Thailand, Kingdom of the Netherlands, Kingdom of Tonga, Kingdomtide, merkingdom, Mountain Kingdom, multikingdom, my kingdom for a horse, overkingdom, Roman Kingdom, subkingdom, superkingdom, transkingdom, underkingdom, United Kingdom, United Kingdom of Great Britain, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, unkingdom, wingdom- Related terms
- monarchy
- Hyponyms
- animal kingdom, plant kingdom, vegetable kingdom