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kingdom noun & verb.
[Old English cyningdom = Old Saxon kuningdom, Old Norse konungdomr, from Germanic bases of KING noun, -DOM.]
A. noun.
Kingly function, authority, or power; sovereignty, kingship. OE-L17.
Shakespeare Richard III Else my kingdom stands on brittle glass.
An organized community having a king as its head; a monarchical State or government. ME.
Middle Kingdom: see MIDDLE adjective. New Kingdom: see NEW adjective. Old Kingdom: see OLD adjective. United Kingdom: see UNITED adjective.
Burke The opinion that all the kingdoms of Europe were at a remote period elective.
The territory or country subject to a king; the area over which a monarch's rule extends; a realm. ME.
b. The Scottish local government area (formerly county) of Fife, which was one of the seven Pictish kingdoms. E18.
transf. & fig.
a. More fully the kingdom of God, the kingdom of heaven. The spiritual sovereignty of God or Christ, or the sphere over which this extends, in heaven or on earth. ME.
kingdom come [from thy kingdom come in the Lord's Prayer] (a) colloq. the next world, eternity; till kingdom come, for an indefinitely long period; (b) the millennial kingdom of Christ.
Christadelphian We..pray that we may be able to help one another..towards the Kingdom.
b. The spiritual rule or realm of evil or infernal powers. ME.
c. A realm or sphere in which a condition or quality is supreme. LME.
V. S. Pritchett The kingdoms of fantasy and mirth are long-lasting and not of this world.
d. Any sphere in which one has dominion like that of a king. Esp. in come into one's kingdom [cf. Luke 23:42], acquire power, attractiveness, etc. L16.
S. T. Felstead Towards the end of the 'eighties, the music-hall had come into its kingdom.
e. Anything compared to a country ruled by a king; a domain. L16.
A province of nature; esp. each of the three traditional divisions (animal, vegetable, and mineral) into which natural objects have been classified; Biology the highest category in most systems of taxonomic classification. L17.
b. verb trans.
With it: pose as a kingdom. rare. Only in E17.
Take possession of, as a kingdom. L19.
kingdomed adjective (a) provided with or constituted as a kingdom; (b) (as 2nd elem. of comb.) divided into (so many) kingdoms: E17.