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English
Alternative forms
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-Germanic *kuningaz
Proto-Germanic *kuningadōmaz
Proto-West Germanic *kuningadōm
Old English cyningdōm
Middle English kingdom
English kingdom
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation, General American) enPR: kĭng'dəm, IPA(key): /ˈkɪŋdəm/
Audio (General American): (file) - Rhymes: -ɪŋdəm
- Hyphenation: king‧dom
Noun
kingdom (plural kingdoms)
- A realm having a king or queen as its actual or nominal sovereign.
- Synonym: kingship (one sense)
- 1956 March, R. C. Blaker, “The Hedjaz Railway”, in Railway Magazine, page 167:
- 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.
- 1993, Allen Wyatt, W Edward Tiley, Jon Paisley, Using MS-DOS 6.2:
- A few other key remappings occur when you use the United Kingdom country...
- 2023, Santanu Bhattacharya, One Small Voice, Fig Tree, page 11:
- ‘Lucknow is not a village. It is a city with a thousand years of civilization. It was the capital of the Awadh kingdom.ʼ
- A realm, region, or conceptual space where something is dominant.
- the kingdom of thought
- the kingdom of the dead
- (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).
- 1839, Jonathan Pereira, The Elements of Materia Medica:
- The Organized and inorganized kingdoms are distinguished from each other by peculiarities of chemical composition, of form and structure, and of actions or functions.
- 2022, Dhanasekaran Dharumadurai, Microbial Symbionts, page 811:
- It has micobiont from Ascomycota and Basidiomycota belonging to kingdom Fungi and photobiont from Trebouxia species.
Synonyms
Hyponyms
Derived terms
- blow to kingdom come
- Flowery Kingdom
- Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan
- Hawaiian Kingdom
- hermit 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
Translations
realm having as supreme ruler a king or queen
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realm, region, or conceptual space where something is dominant
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taxonomic division, below Domain and above Phylum
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- The translations below need to be checked and inserted above into the appropriate translation tables. See instructions at Wiktionary:Entry layout § Translations.
See also
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Middle English
Alternative forms
- kyngdom, kyngdoom, kengdam, kyngdam, kyngedome, küngdom, kyngdome, kyngdan
Etymology
From Old English cyningdōm, from Proto-Germanic *kuningadōmaz. Equivalent to king + -dom.
Etymology tree
Proto-Germanic *kuningaz
Proto-Germanic *kuningadōmaz
Proto-West Germanic *kuningadōm
Old English cyningdōm
Middle English kingdom
Pronunciation
Noun
kingdom (plural kingdoms)
- dominion, lordship, rulership
- (Christianity) The dominion and authority of God
- kingdom, monarchy
- state, realm
- tribe, clan
- region, domain, zone
- (astrology) The region where a planet's influence predominates
Related terms
Descendants
References
- “MED24300, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 31 March 2018.
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