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kingdom
noun
- 1. A region, state or people ruled, or previously ruled, by a king or queen.
- Thesaurus: realm, domain, dominion, principality, province, sphere, suzerainty, commonwealth, territory, tract, sway, dynasty, sovereignty.
- In taxonomy: any of the divisions (usually reckoned as five) corresponding to the highest rank in the classification of plants and animals, eg Animalia (animals) or Fungi (fungi).
- Example: the kingdom of the imagination
- Into the next world.
- Example: blow them all to kingdom come
- Until the coming of the next world; for ever.
- Example: wait till kingdom come
