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kingdom

noun
/ˈkɪŋdəm/US

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 ? 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

  1. inherited from *kuningadōmaz✻
  2. inherited from cyningdōm
  3. inherited from kingdom

Definitions

  1. A realm having a king or queen as its actual or nominal sovereign.

    • 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

  2. A realm, region, or conceptual space where something is dominant.

    • the kingdom of thought
    • the kingdom of the dead

  3. A rank in the classification of organisms, below domain and above phylum

    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).

    • 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.

The neighborhood

Derived

blow to kingdom come, Flowery Kingdom, Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan, Hawaiian Kingdom, hermit kingdom, hustle kingdom, infrakingdom, interkingdom, 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 · +15 more

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at kingdom. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

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A definitional loop anchored at kingdom. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

8 hops · closes at kingdom

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA