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Kingdom

noun

A domain in which something is dominant. Synonyms: land, realm. "A land of make-believe" , "The rise of the realm of cotton in the south"

A country with a king as head of state.

The domain ruled by a king or queen. Synonym: realm.

A monarchy with a king or queen as head of state.

The highest taxonomic group into which organisms are grouped; one of five biological categories: Monera or Protoctista or Plantae or Fungi or Animalia.

A basic group of natural objects.

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"Kingdom" Quotes from Famous Books

... the difference in her room and the room I had left! She had had it painted and papered herself, for it hadn't been used since kingdom come, and the cobwebs in it would have filled a barrel. It had been a packing-room, and when Miss Katherine first saw it she just whistled soft and easy; but when she was through, it ...

— Mary Cary - "Frequently Martha" • Kate Langley Bosher

... desire of both courts and councils that the marriage shall be solemnized on the fifteenth of the May following your twenty-first birthday, at which time the coronation ceremony takes place that is to place the crown of the kingdom upon the head of the son of our beloved and ever-to-be-regretted Imperatorskoye. The Court and Council extend greetings and congratulations upon the not far distant approach of both auspicious events to your Royal Highness, which cannot fail to afford ...

— One Day - A sequel to 'Three Weeks' • Anonymous

... Mercia; and in 884 the Danes sailed up the Medway and besieged it, but were effectually repulsed by King Alfred. About 930, when three Mints were established there by Athelstan, it had grown to be one of the principal ports of the kingdom. William the Conqueror gave the town to his half-brother Odo, Bishop of Bayeux. Fires in 1130 and 1137 ...

— A Week's Tramp in Dickens-Land • William R. Hughes

... and places her own seal upon them. Here she shows me what can be done with ferns and mosses and lichens. The soil is marrowy and full of innumerable forests. Standing in these fragrant aisles, I feel the strength of the vegetable kingdom and am awed by the deep and inscrutable processes of life going ...

— The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 17, No. 104, June, 1866 • Various

... it is under one rule. Twenty-two years ago France was an empire, under the almost absolute dominion of Napoleon III; now it is a republic, with all the forms of republican institutions, but without the stability of our government. The kingdom of Prussia has been expanded into the great German empire, among the strongest, if not the strongest, of the military powers in the world. The institutions of Great Britain have become liberalized until it is a monarchy only in name, the queen exercising far less power than the ...

— Recollections of Forty Years in the House, Senate and Cabinet - An Autobiography. • John Sherman

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