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单词 kingdom
释义
kingdom
noun[C]
uk
/ˈkɪŋ.dəm/us
/ˈkɪŋ.dəm/
B2
acountryruledby akingorqueen:
王国
theUnitedKingdom ofGreatBritainandNorthernIreland大不列颠及北爱尔兰联合王国
anareathat iscontrolledby aparticularpersonor where aparticularqualityisimportant:
（某人）占统治地位的地方；管辖范围；（某种特质为重的）领域
the kingdom ofGod/Heaven天国
the kingdom oflove爱的王国
literary
anareaofactivity:
活动领域
the kingdom of thetheatre戏剧王国
the kingdoms of themind思想领域
C2
one of thegroupsthatnaturalthings can bedividedinto,dependingontheirtype:
（动物、植物、矿物）界
theanimal/plantkingdom动物／植物界
More examples
  • afeudallord/kingdom/society
  • Heruledthe kingdomwisely.
  • Theyvisitedmany kingdoms of theEast.
  • Her kingdomstretchedfor thousands ofmiles.
  • Who is therulerof this kingdom?
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases
Republics & kingdoms
  • banana republic
  • body politic
  • Camelot
  • commonwealth
  • crown
  • dominion
  • duchy
  • dukedom
  • earldom
  • emirate
  • monarchy
  • principality
  • realm
  • republic
  • sheikhdom
  • sultanate
  • territorial
  • the citizenry
  • the Reich

You can also find related words, phrases, and synonyms in the topics:

Range and limits
Topics & areas of interest
Classifying and creating order

Idioms

blast/blowsomeone/somethingto kingdom come
till/until kingdom come
(Definition ofkingdomfrom theCambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus© Cambridge University Press)

kingdom| American Dictionary

kingdom
noun[C]
us
/ˈkɪŋ·dəm/
acountryruledby akingorqueen:
She wasqueenof anancientkingdom in Egypt.
biology
A kingdom is also one of thegroupsinto whichnaturalthings can bedivided,dependingontheirtype.
(Definition ofkingdomfrom theCambridge Academic Content Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofkingdom

kingdom
The desire of landlocked kingdoms to share in the potential of overseas trade may explain their belligerence towards coastal kingdoms in the seventh century.
From theCambridge English Corpus
The dominant narrative told the story of kingdoms rising and falling and was based on fragments of classical texts and coin legends.
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As such it is, among other things, an expression of the kingdom's expansion and of genealogical distance or proximity to the current ruler.
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People left their farms and sought the charity of others ; in some cases entire sections of kingdoms were abandoned.
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The evidence for the working of government is equally slight, but there are recurrent features which allow some insight into the organization of the kingdoms.
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The first of these areas in the sixth century was usually divided up into a number of geographically coherent kingdoms.
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He needed to mobilize all his resources in order to control his diocese, much as kings had to do in order to rule their kingdoms.
From theCambridge English Corpus
Most of the papers focus on specific kingdoms and peoples to elucidate processes of political and ethnic consolidation.
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The author states that ceremonies were necessary for survival and peace and regulated relations both internally and with neighbouring kingdoms.
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Her knowledge of the utilization of geological resources by the engineers and craftsmen of successive kingdoms and dynasties is clearly expressed over thirteen chapters.
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By any standards expenditures on armed force required to underpin the kingdom's foreign, strategic and commercial policies look massive.
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The two kingdoms were once more at war.
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Since 1960 a number of local historians have written important studies, usually centered on particular kingdoms in the pre-colonial era.
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The kingdom's leadership centred on the king or the asantehene.
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The increasingly bitter controversies that marked the two kingdoms' dealings during the spring and summer of 1645"! !
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Collocationswithkingdom

kingdom

These are words often used in combination withkingdom.

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ancient kingdom
I agree that it is distasteful to divide anancientkingdom, and that was the dilemma.
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Hansard archive
Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0
entire kingdom
An act from 1475 also extended the regulations of 1422 to theentirekingdom.
From theCambridge English Corpus
independent kingdom
This artifice allowed it to be a duchy in name and anindependentkingdomin reality.
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