# kingdom
## English
### Alternative forms

* kingdome (obsolete)

### 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.

### Pronunciation

* (Received Pronunciation, General American) enPR: kĭng'dəm, IPA: /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.
** 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

* (realm): kingric (Britain dialectal, obsolete)
* (taxonomic rank): regnum

#### Hyponyms

* animal kingdom
* plant kingdom
* vegetable kingdom

#### Derived terms

* blow to kingdom come
* Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan
* hermit kingdom
* infrakingdom
* 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
* 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
* my kingdom for a horse
* overkingdom
* Roman Kingdom
* subkingdom
* superkingdom
* United Kingdom
* United Kingdom of Great Britain
* United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
* United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
* unkingdom

#### Translations

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### See also

* monarchy

## 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.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈkiŋɡdoːm/, /ˈkiŋɡdɔm/

### 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

* king

#### Descendants

* English: kingdom
* Scots: kingdom

#### References

* “MED24300, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-03-31.