kingdom
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: biology
natural-sciences
taxonomy
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
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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
Base: king
Affixes: -dom
Inflected forms:
form: kingdoms
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: kingdome
pos: noun
tags: alternative
obsolete
Senses:
gloss: A realm having a king or queen as its actual or nominal sovereign.
pos: noun
examples: 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.
A few other key remappings occur when you use the United Kingdom country...
‘Lucknow is not a village. It is a city with a thousand years of civilization. It was the capital of the Awadh kingdom.ʼ
gloss: A realm, region, or conceptual space where something is dominant.
pos: noun
examples: the kingdom of thought
the kingdom of the dead
gloss: 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).
pos: noun
examples: The Organized and inorganized kingdoms are distinguished from each other by peculiarities of chemical composition, of form and structure, and of actions or functions.
It has micobiont from Ascomycota and Basidiomycota belonging to kingdom Fungi and photobiont from Trebouxia species.
Related words: monarchy
Derived words: 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
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