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king·dom
(kĭng′dəm)n.
1. A political or territorial unit ruled by a sovereign.
2.
a. The eternal spiritual sovereignty of God or Christ.
b. The realm of this sovereignty.
3. A realm or sphere in which one thing is dominant: the kingdom of the imagination.
4. In the Linnean taxonomic system, the highest taxonomic category into which organisms are grouped, based on fundamental similarities and common ancestry. One widely used taxonomic system designates five or six such groups: animals, plants, fungi, protists, and prokaryotes (often divided into bacteria and archaea). Other systems divide organisms into domains (eukaryotes, bacteria, and archaea) that replace or rank above kingdoms.
5. One of the three main divisions (animal, vegetable, and mineral) into which natural organisms and objects have traditionally been classified.
[Middle English, from Old English cyningdōm : cyning, king; see king + -dōm, -dom.]
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kingdom
(ˈkɪŋdəm)n
1. (Government, Politics & Diplomacy) a territory, state, people, or community ruled or reigned over by a king or queen
2. any of the three groups into which natural objects may be divided: the animal, plant, and mineral kingdoms
3. (Biology) biology any of the major categories into which living organisms of the domain Eukarya are classified. Modern systems recognize four kingdoms: Protoctista (algae, protozoans, etc), Fungi, Plantae, and Animalia. See also domain12
4. (Theology) theol the eternal sovereignty of God
5. an area of activity, esp mental activity, considered as being the province of something specified: the kingdom of the mind.
ˈkingdomless adj
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king•dom
(ˈkɪŋ dəm)n.
1. a state or government having a king or queen as its head.
2. anything constituting an independent realm; domain: the kingdom of thought.
3. a realm of nature, esp. one of the three broad divisions of natural objects: the animal, vegetable, and mineral kingdoms.
4. Biol. a taxonomic category of the highest rank, grouping together all forms of life that share fundamental characteristics: five kingdoms are usual in modern classification schemes. Compare animal (def. 1), plant (def. 1), fungus, protist, moneran.
5. the spiritual sovereignty or domain of God or Christ.
[before 1000]
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king·dom
(kĭng′dəm) The highest classification into which living organisms are grouped, ranking above a phylum. One widely accepted system of classification divides life into five kingdoms: prokaryotes, protists, fungi, plants, and animals. See Table at taxonomy.
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kingdom
In biological taxonomy, the highest level in the hierarchy, e.g. plants, animals.
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| Noun | 1. |  kingdom - a domain in which something is dominant; "the untroubled kingdom of reason"; "a land of make-believe"; "the rise of the realm of cotton in the south"arena, domain, sphere, orbit, area, field - a particular environment or walk of life; "his social sphere is limited"; "it was a closed area of employment"; "he's out of my orbit" lotus land, lotusland - an idyllic realm of contentment and self-indulgence |
| 2. | kingdom - a country with a king as head of state | |
| 3. | kingdom - the domain ruled by a king or queen | |
| 4. | kingdom - a monarchy with a king or queen as head of state monarchy - an autocracy governed by a monarch who usually inherits the authority | |
| 5. | kingdom - the highest taxonomic group into which organisms are grouped; one of five biological categories: Monera or Protoctista or Plantae or Fungi or Animalia animal kingdom, Animalia, kingdom Animalia - taxonomic kingdom comprising all living or extinct animals kingdom Monera, kingdom Prokaryotae, Monera, Prokayotae - prokaryotic bacteria and blue-green algae and various primitive pathogens; because of lack of consensus on how to divide the organisms into phyla informal names are used for the major divisions kingdom Protoctista, Protoctista - in most modern classifications, replacement for the Protista; includes: Protozoa; Euglenophyta; Chlorophyta; Cryptophyta; Heterokontophyta; Rhodophyta; unicellular protists and their descendant multicellular organisms: regarded as distinct from plants and animals phylum - (biology) the major taxonomic group of animals and plants; contains classes kingdom Plantae, plant kingdom, Plantae - (botany) the taxonomic kingdom comprising all living or extinct plants Fungi, fungus kingdom, kingdom Fungi - the taxonomic kingdom including yeast, molds, smuts, mushrooms, and toadstools; distinct from the green plants | |
| 6. | kingdom - a basic group of natural objects mineral kingdom - all inorganic objects; contrasts with animal and plant kingdoms |
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kingdom
noun
1. country, state, nation, land, division, territory, province, empire, commonwealth, realm, domain, tract, dominion, sovereign state the Kingdom of Denmark
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Translations
مَـْملَكَةٌمَمْلَكَه
царство
královstvíříše
rigekongedømmekongerige
kuningaskuntakunta
kraljevstvocarstvokraljevina
királyság-világ
kerajaan
konungdæmiríki náttúrunnar
王国
왕국
regnum
kraljestvokraljevina
kungadömekungarikerike
ราชอาณาจักร
королівствотваринний світцарство
vương quốcgiới
kingdom
[ˈkɪŋdəm] N → reino manimal/plant kingdom → reino m animal/vegetal
the Kingdom of Heaven → el reino de los cielos
till kingdom come → hasta el día del juicio final
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kingdom
n
(lit) → Königreich nt
(Rel) kingdom of heaven → Himmelreich nt; to blow something to kingdom come (inf) → etw in die Luft jagen (inf); you can go on doing that till kingdom come (inf) → Sie können (so) bis in alle Ewigkeit weitermachen; he’s gone to kingdom come (inf) → er hat das Zeitliche gesegnet (hum inf)
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kingdom
[ˈkɪŋdəm] n → regno, reame mthe Kingdom of Heaven → il Regno dei Cieli
till kingdom come (fam) → fino al giorno del giudizio
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king
(kiŋ) noun1. a male ruler of a nation, who inherits his position by right of birth. He became king when his father died; King Charles III.
2. the playing-card with the picture of a king. I have two cards – the ten of spades and the king of diamonds.
3. the most important piece in chess.
ˈkingdom noun1. a state having a king (or queen) as its head. The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland; He rules over a large kingdom.
2. any of the three great divisions of natural objects. the animal, vegetable and mineral kingdoms.
ˈkingly adjective of, relating to, or suitable for a king. kingly robes; a kingly feast.
ˈkingliness nounˈkingfisher noun
a type of bird with brilliant blue feathers which feeds on fish.
ˈking-size(d) adjective of a large size; larger than normal. a king-size(d) bed; king-size cigarettes.
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kingdom
→ مَـْملَكَةٌ království kongerige Königreich βασίλειο reino kuningaskunta royaume kraljevstvo regno 王国 왕국 koninkrijk kongerike królestwo reinado королевство kungadöme ราชอาณาจักร krallık vương quốc 王国Multilingual Translator © HarperCollins Publishers 2009
king·dom
n. reino, categoría en la clasificación de animales, plantas y minerales.
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