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KINGDOM
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A basic group of natural objects
Classified under:
Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects
Hypernyms ("kingdom" is a kind of...):
group; grouping (any number of entities (members) considered as a unit)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "kingdom"):
mineral kingdom (all inorganic objects; contrasts with animal and plant kingdoms)
Sense 2
Meaning:
The highest taxonomic group into which organisms are grouped; one of five biological categories: Monera or Protoctista or Plantae or Fungi or Animalia
Classified under:
Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects
Hypernyms ("kingdom" is a kind of...):
taxon; taxonomic category; taxonomic group (animal or plant group having natural relations)
Meronyms (members of "kingdom"):
phylum ((biology) the major taxonomic group of animals and plants; contains classes)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "kingdom"):
animal kingdom; Animalia; kingdom Animalia (taxonomic kingdom comprising all living or extinct animals)
kingdom Monera; kingdom Prokaryotae; Monera; Prokayotae (prokaryotic bacteria and blue-green algae and various primitive pathogens; because of lack of consensus on how to divide the organisms into phyla informal names are used for the major divisions)
kingdom Protoctista; Protoctista (in most modern classifications, replacement for the Protista; includes: Protozoa; Euglenophyta; Chlorophyta; Cryptophyta; Heterokontophyta; Rhodophyta; unicellular protists and their descendant multicellular organisms: regarded as distinct from plants and animals)
kingdom Plantae; plant kingdom; Plantae ((botany) the taxonomic kingdom comprising all living or extinct plants)
Fungi; fungus kingdom; kingdom Fungi (the taxonomic kingdom including yeast, molds, smuts, mushrooms, and toadstools; distinct from the green plants)
Sense 3
Meaning:
A monarchy with a king or queen as head of state
Classified under:
Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects
Hypernyms ("kingdom" is a kind of...):
monarchy (an autocracy governed by a monarch who usually inherits the authority)
Derivation:
king (a male sovereign; ruler of a kingdom)
Sense 4
Meaning:
The domain ruled by a king or queen
Synonyms:
Classified under:
Nouns denoting spatial position
Hypernyms ("kingdom" is a kind of...):
demesne; domain; land (territory over which rule or control is exercised)
Instance hyponyms:
Numidia (an ancient kingdom (later a Roman province) in North Africa in an area corresponding roughly to present-day Algeria)
Derivation:
king (a male sovereign; ruler of a kingdom)
Sense 5
Meaning:
A country with a king as head of state
Classified under:
Nouns denoting spatial position
Hypernyms ("kingdom" is a kind of...):
country; land; state (the territory occupied by a nation)
Instance hyponyms:
Israel (an ancient kingdom of the Hebrew tribes at the southeastern end of the Mediterranean Sea; founded by Saul around 1025 BC and destroyed by the Assyrians in 721 BC)
Britain; Great Britain; U.K.; UK; United Kingdom; United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (a monarchy in northwestern Europe occupying most of the British Isles; divided into England and Scotland and Wales and Northern Ireland; 'Great Britain' is often used loosely to refer to the United Kingdom)
Sense 6
Meaning:
A domain in which something is dominant
Example:
the rise of the realm of cotton in the south
Synonyms:
kingdom; land; realm
Classified under:
Nouns denoting stable states of affairs
Hypernyms ("kingdom" is a kind of...):
area; arena; domain; field; orbit; sphere (a particular environment or walk of life)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "kingdom"):
lotus land; lotusland (an idyllic realm of contentment and self-indulgence)
Context examples:
A taxonomic phylum within kingdom Bacteria consisting of mostly gram-positive bacteria with a low G+C ratio.
(Firmicutes, NCI Thesaurus)
A taxonomic phylum within kingdom Bacteria consisting of gram-positive soil bacteria with a high G+C ratio.
(Actinobacteria, NCI Thesaurus)
Not, I should hope, of the proportion of virtue to vice throughout the kingdom.
(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)
"Don't laugh! Act as if it was all right!" and, ordering Roderigo up, banished him from the kingdom with wrath and scorn.
(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)
There are five biological kingdoms (Monera, Protista, Plantae, Fungi, Animalia) into which organisms are grouped, based on common characteristics.
(Kingdom, NCI Thesaurus)
There is mounting evidence that learning by observing others occurs throughout the animal kingdom.
(Birds learn from each other’s ‘disgust’, enabling insects to evolve bright colours, University of Cambridge)
I had a very confused knowledge of kingdoms, wide extents of country, mighty rivers, and boundless seas.
(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)
Tissue and cells from the general category of the kingdom Animalia (multicellular animals) including those phyla whose members lack a notochord.
(Invertebrate Tissue and Cells, NCI Thesaurus)
He was preparing a map of the Holy Land, with special reference to the kingdom of the Midianites, upon which he was writing a monograph.
(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
The proteins and the sequence of events involved in this process are conserved throughout the eukaryotic kingdom.
(CDK Regulation Pathway, NCI Thesaurus/BIOCARTA)
