king·dom (k ng d m)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. One of the three main divisions (animal, vegetable, and mineral) into which natural organisms and objects are classified. 5. In the Linnaean taxonomic system, the highest taxonomic classification into which organisms are grouped, based on fundamental similarities and common ancestry. The Linnaean system designates five such classifications: animals, plants, fungi, prokaryotes, and protoctists. See Table at taxonomy. [Middle English, from Old English cyningd  m : cyning, king; see king + -dm, -dom.] |
kingdom
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1. a territory or state ruled 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. a place or area considered to be under the total power and control of a person, organization, or thing: the kingdom of God
| kingdom (kngdm) The highest classification into which living organisms are grouped in Linnean taxonomy, 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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| 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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