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means A country ruled by a king or queen, or more broadly any distinct realm, domain, or category over which something holds sway.
from From Old English 'cyningdom' — 'cyning' (king) plus the suffix '-dom,' which means 'state, condition, or domain of.' That same '-dom' lives on in 'freedom,' 'wisdom,' and 'boredom,' all of them little territories of being. 'Cyning' itself likely descends from a Proto-Germanic root tied to 'kin' — the king as the man of the kindred, the head of the family writ large. So a kingdom is, at its bones, the condition of having a kin-leader. Later it stretched far beyond crowns: by the time naturalists were sorting life into the animal, plant, and mineral kingdoms, the word simply meant a vast realm of its own kind.
- deadliest job
- Crowned heads die violently more than soldiers historically
- biology too
- Life splits into kingdoms: animals, plants, fungi
- tiny ones
- Sealand, a sea fort, claims kingdom status
- word root
- From king plus -dom, meaning king-state
- oldest crown
- Japan's monarchy spans over 2,600 years
kingdom of saudi arabia — country in western asia, founded 1932, covers 2.15 million km²
kingdom of thailand — southeast asian country, only nation in region never colonized, established as kingdom 1782
kingdom of spain — european nation, constitutional monarchy, formed 1975 after franco's death
kingdom of morocco — north african country, kingdom since 1956, capital rabat