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king·dom (k

1. A political or territorial unit ruled by a sovereign.

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 cyningdm : cyning, king; see king + -dm, -dom.]

kingdom [ˈkɪŋdəm]

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. (Life Sciences & Allied Applications / 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 domain [12]

4. (Christian Religious Writings / 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

kingdomless adj

kingdom (k

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" realm, land 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 country, land, state - the territory occupied by a nation; "he returned to the land of his birth"; "he visited several European countries"
	3.	kingdom - the domain ruled by a king or queen realm demesne, domain, land - territory over which rule or control is exercised; "his domain extended into Europe"; "he made it the law of the land"
	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 taxon, taxonomic category, taxonomic group - animal or plant group having natural relations 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 group, grouping - any number of entities (members) considered as a unit mineral kingdom - all inorganic objects; contrasts with animal and plant kingdoms

kingdom

noun

1. country, state, nation, land, division, territory, province, empire, commonwealth, realm, domain, tract, dominion, sovereign state the Kingdom of Denmark

2. domain, territory, province, realm, area, department, field, zone, arena, sphere nature study trips to the kingdom of the polar bear

3. class, grouping, category, classification, order, sort, department, division, section, rank, grade the delicate jewels of the plant and animal kingdoms

Translations

kingdom [ˈkɪŋdəm] N → reino m
animal/plant kingdom → reino m animal/vegetal
the Kingdom of Heaven → el reino de los cielos
till kingdom come → hasta el día del juicio final

kingdom [ˈkɪŋdəm] n

(= country) → royaume m

(= domain) the animal kingdom → le règne animal

kingdom

(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)

(Zool, Bot) → Reich nt; the animal/plant kingdom → das Tier-/Pflanzenreich, das Reich der Tiere/Pflanzen

kingdom [ˈkɪŋdəm] n → regno, reame m
the Kingdom of Heaven → il Regno dei Cieli
till kingdom come (fam) → fino al giorno del giudizio

kingdom → مملكة království kongerige Königreich βασίλειο reino kuningaskunta royaume kraljevstvo regno 王国 왕국 koninkrijk kongerike królestwo reinado королевство kungadöme ราชอาณาจักร krallık vương quốc 王国

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