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.
 
 
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  Etymology
  OE cyningdōm ‘kingship’ (see king, -dom).