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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.

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    kingdom (plural kingdoms)

    1. 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
    2. A realm, region, or conceptual space where something is dominant.
      the kingdom of thought
      the kingdom of the dead
    3. (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.

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

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    Middle English

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    Etymology

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    From Old English cyningdōm, from Proto-Germanic *kuningadōmaz. Equivalent to king +‎ -dom.

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      • IPA(key): /ˈkiŋɡdoːm/, /ˈkiŋɡdɔm/

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      kingdom (plural kingdoms)

      1. dominion, lordship, rulership
      2. (Christianity) The dominion and authority of God
      3. kingdom, monarchy
      4. state, realm
      5. tribe, clan
      6. region, domain, zone
      7. (astrology) The region where a planet's influence predominates
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      • English: kingdom
      • Scots: kingdom

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