n.
- a country, state, or territory ruled by a king or queen.
▸a realm associated with a particular person or thing:
the kingdom of dreams.
- the spiritual reign or authority of God.
▸heaven as the abode of God and of the faithful after death.
- each of the three divisions (animal, vegetable, and mineral) in which natural objects have conventionally been classified.
▸Biology the highest category in taxonomic classification.
Phrase
Etymology
OE cyningdōm ‘kingship’ (see king, -dom).