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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

... me of that," she said. "Will you believe it? I do not even know where that place was. I cannot tell you even the name of the kingdom in which it lay. I learned a name for it and for the forest, but those names are in no map that has ever fallen into my hands. I sometimes feel that I would go to the place if I could ...

— The Witch of Prague • F. Marion Crawford

... armies. They themselves expected to be kings of the East although coming from the West, and some, it is interesting to note, explain the Prussians as of Oriental origin. At the same time the claims both of oil and empire kept us busy in the Persian Gulf. It looked as if we were to share this new kingdom or sphere of influence with Germany, until the war came and sorted ...

— A Dweller in Mesopotamia - Being the Adventures of an Official Artist in the Garden of Eden • Donald Maxwell

... Vane opened it, and took out a piece of crisp dark brown stickiness generally known as "jumble," and transferred it to his mouth, while four lower jaws were now seen at work, giving the pupils the aspect of being members of that portion of the quadrupedal animal kingdom known as ruminants. ...

— The Weathercock - Being the Adventures of a Boy with a Bias • George Manville Fenn

... Divers times heard the said Master Acknowledge and Declare that he took in his aforesd Loading at Corke in the Kingdom of Ireland, and also that he went from Teneriffe to Corke, where he purchased sd Loading, and was to return with the same immediately to Teneriffe, where two of his owners were Inhabitants and one other owner an Inhabitant ...

— Privateering and Piracy in the Colonial Period - Illustrative Documents • Various

... schools all over the kingdom; for young gentlemen, from three to five years of age, under ladies, and from four to seven, under either, or both sexes, as it may happen; but the most preparatory of all preparatory schools, is certainly the Foundling Hospital, which ...

— Japhet, In Search Of A Father • Frederick Marryat

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