kingdom
Listen:Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
kingdom/ˈkɪŋdəm/
▶noun
- 1 a country, state, or territory ruled by a king or queen.
■ a realm associated with a particular person or thing: the kingdom of dreams.
- 2 the spiritual reign or authority of God.
■ heaven as the abode of God and of the faithful after death.
- 3 each of the three divisions (animal, vegetable, and mineral) in which natural objects have conventionally been classified.
■ Biology the highest category in taxonomic classification.
– phrases
come into (or to) one's kingdom achieve recognition or supremacy.
till (or until) kingdom come informal forever.
to kingdom come informal into the next world: the truck was blown to kingdom come.
come into (or to) one's kingdom achieve recognition or supremacy.
till (or until) kingdom come informal forever.
to kingdom come informal into the next world: the truck was blown to kingdom come.
'kingdom' also found in these Oxford entries:
Babylonian
- Baganda
- Bhutanese
- British
- Burgundian
- Chancellor of the Exchequer
- Count Palatine
- division
- HKJ
- Khmer
- Maratha
- Mercian
- Nabataean
- Pahlavi
- Parthian
- phylum
- protector
- protistan
- protozoan
- Prussian
- realm
- regnal
- reign
- Ruritanian
- subkingdom
- UK
- UKAEA
- UKIP
- Union Jack
- West Saxon
- Zion
