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kingdom

/king-duhm/US // ˈkɪŋ dəm //UK // (ˈkɪŋdəm) //

王国,国度,王室,王道

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : a state or government having a king or queen as its head.
    • : anything conceived as constituting a realm or sphere of independent action or control: the kingdom of thought.
    • : a realm or province of nature, especially one of the three broad divisions of natural objects: the animal, vegetable, and mineral kingdoms.
    • : Biology. a taxonomic category of the second highest rank, just below domain: in a traditional five-kingdom classification scheme, separate kingdoms are assigned to animals, plants, fungi, protozoa and eukaryotic algae, and bacteria and blue-green algae.
    • : the spiritual sovereignty of God or Christ.
    • : the domain over which the spiritual sovereignty of God or Christ extends, whether in heaven or on earth.

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Examples

  • The US Navy’s Fifth Fleet is based in the small kingdom, and so they each have military and economic reasons to remain friendly.

  • By analyzing hundreds of genomes from across the animal kingdom, researchers in Spain and the United Kingdom showed that a startling degree of gene loss pervades the tree of life.

  • Recognition that gene loss has been important to evolution throughout the animal kingdom opens new doors for research.

  • Surviving digestion-by-predator is rare, but not unheard of in the animal kingdom.

  • From large trees in the Amazon jungle to houseplants to seaweed in the ocean, green is the color that reigns over the plant kingdom.

  • But give the Kingdom credit for its sense of mercy: The lashes will be administered only 50 at a time.

  • A variety of systems were in place across countries like the United Kingdom, France, and Australia.

  • Fuming Iranian officials blamed the United States and United Kingdom for backing the militants, and Pakistan for inaction.

  • The young Jordanian pilot comes from a well-known military family in the kingdom and his uncle is a retired major general.

  • The FBI and the President may claim that the Hermit Kingdom is to blame for the most high-profile network breach in forever.

  • But the greatest danger I ever underwent in that kingdom was from a monkey, who belonged to one of the clerks of the kitchen.

  • But if what I told him were true, he was still at a loss how a kingdom could run out of its estate like a private person.

  • That thou shouldst make the kingdom to be divided, and out of Ephraim a rebellious kingdom to rule.

  • The prizes were plate, and the profits were to be expended in repairing the havens of the kingdom.

  • While the majority pulled in one way there was an active minority that wished the Nana to set up an independent kingdom.