kingdom
Other forms: kingdoms
A kingdom is a territory or group of people ruled by the same monarch. You probably know the story of the prince who searched the kingdom to find the girl who left her glass slipper at the ball.
A kingdom is a place — either literal or imagined — where someone or something reigns. A queen rules over her kingdom, which is land and the people who live on it, while a certain pop singer has a kingdom of young fans. In "the kingdom of the mind," creativity and imagination — not kings or queens — rule. In biology, a kingdom is a grouping of like organisms. For example, a dog is a member of the animal kingdom.
Definitions of kingdom
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the domain ruled by a king or queen
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a country with a king as head of state
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examples:
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Israel
an ancient kingdom of the Hebrew tribes at the southeastern end of the Mediterranean Sea; founded by Saul around 1025 BC and destroyed by the Assyrians in 721 BC
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United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
a monarchy in northwestern Europe occupying most of the British Isles; divided into England and Scotland and Wales and Northern Ireland; `Great Britain' is often used loosely to refer to the United Kingdom
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Israel
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a monarchy with a king or queen as head of state
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type of:
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monarchy
an autocracy governed by a monarch who usually inherits the authority
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monarchy
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a domain in which something is dominant
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a basic group of natural objects
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types:
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mineral kingdom
all inorganic objects; contrasts with animal and plant kingdoms
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mineral kingdom
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the second highest taxonomic group into which organisms are grouped; one of five biological categories: Monera or Protoctista or Plantae or Fungi or Animalia
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Animalia, animal kingdom, kingdom Animalia
taxonomic kingdom comprising all living or extinct animals
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Monera, Prokayotae, kingdom Monera, kingdom Prokaryotae
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
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Protoctista, kingdom 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
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Plantae, kingdom Plantae, plant kingdom
(botany) the taxonomic kingdom comprising all living or extinct plants
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Fungi, fungus kingdom, kingdom Fungi
the taxonomic kingdom including yeast, molds, smuts, mushrooms, and toadstools; distinct from the green plants
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taxon, taxonomic category, taxonomic group
animal or plant group having natural relations
Pronunciation
US
/ˈkɪŋdəm/
UK
/ˈkɪŋdəm/
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