kingdom
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: kĭng'dəm
ipa: /ˈkɪŋdəm/
rhymes: -ɪŋdəm
Forms: form: kingdoms
form: kingdome
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-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
Senses: examples: text: 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.
ref: 1956 March, R. C. Blaker, “The Hedjaz Railway”, in Railway Magazine, page 167:
text: A few other key remappings occur when you use the United Kingdom country...
ref: 1993, Allen Wyatt, W Edward Tiley, Jon Paisley, Using MS-DOS 6.2:
text: ‘Lucknow is not a village. It is a city with a thousand years of civilization. It was the capital of the Awadh kingdom.ʼ
ref: 2023, Santanu Bhattacharya, One Small Voice, Fig Tree, page 11:
synonyms: kingship
glosses: A realm having a king or queen as its actual or nominal sovereign.
examples: text: the kingdom of thought
text: the kingdom of the dead
glosses: A realm, region, or conceptual space where something is dominant.
examples: text: The Organized and inorganized kingdoms are distinguished from each other by peculiarities of chemical composition, of form and structure, and of actions or functions.
ref: 1839, Jonathan Pereira, The Elements of Materia Medica:
text: It has micobiont from Ascomycota and Basidiomycota belonging to kingdom Fungi and photobiont from Trebouxia species.
ref: 2022, Dhanasekaran Dharumadurai, Microbial Symbionts, page 811:
topics: biology
natural-sciences
taxonomy
glosses: 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).
Synonyms: sense: realm
word: kingric
sense: taxonomic rank
word: regnum
Hyponyms: animal kingdom
plant kingdom
vegetable kingdom
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
Related terms: monarchy