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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Kingdom \King"dom\, noun [AS. cyningd[=o]m. See 2d {King}, and {-dom}.]
1. The rank, quality, state, or attributes of a king; royal authority; sovereign power; rule; dominion; monarchy.
Thy kingdom is an everlasting kingdom. --Ps. cxiv. 13.
When Jehoram was risen up to the kingdom of his father, he strengthened himself. --2 Chron. xxi. 4.
2. The territory or country subject to a king or queen; the dominion of a monarch; the sphere in which one is king or has control.
Unto the kingdom of perpetual night. --Shak.
You're welcome, Most learned reverend sir, into our kingdom. --Shak.
3. An extensive scientific division distinguished by leading or ruling characteristics; a principal division; a department; as, the mineral kingdom. In modern biology, the division of life into five kingdoms is widely used for classification. ''The animal and vegetable kingdoms.'' --Locke. [1913 Webster +PJC]
{Animal kingdom}. See under {Animal}.
{Kingdom of God}. (a) The universe. (b) That spiritual realm of which God is the acknowledged sovereign. (c) The authority or dominion of God.
{Mineral kingdom}. See under {Mineral}.
{United Kingdom}. See under {United}.
{Vegetable kingdom}. See under {Vegetable}.
Syn: Realm; empire; dominion; monarchy; sovereignty; domain.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
kingdom
noun
1: a domain in which something is dominant; "the untroubled kingdom of reason"; "a land of make-believe"; "the rise of the realm of cotton in the south" [syn: {land}, {realm}]
2: a country with a king as head of state
3: the domain ruled by a king or queen [syn: {realm}]
4: a monarchy with a king or queen as head of state
5: one of seven biological categories: Monera or Protoctista or Plantae or Fungi or Animalia
6: a basic group of natural objects
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
114 Moby Thesaurus words for "kingdom": ally, animal kingdom, antonomasia, archduchy, archdukedom, area, bailiwick, binomial nomenclature, biological classification, biosystematics, biosystematy, biotype, body politic, branch, buffer state, captive nation, chain of being, chieftaincy, chieftainry, city-state, class, class structure, classification, colony, commonweal, commonwealth, country, county, domain, dominion, duchy, dukedom, earldom, empery, empire, establishment, family, field, free city, genotype, genus, glossology, grand duchy, hierarchy, land, mandant, mandate, mandated territory, mandatee, mandatory, mineral kingdom, monarchy, nation, nationality, natural hierarchy, nomenclature, onomastics, onomatology, order, orismology, pecking order, phylum, place-names, place-naming, polis, polity, polyonymy, possession, power, power structure, principality, principate, protectorate, province, puppet government, puppet regime, pyramid, realm, republic, satellite, section, seneschalty, series, settlement, sovereign nation, sovereignty, species, sphere of influence, state, subclass, subfamily, subgenus, subkingdom, suborder, subspecies, subtribe, sultanate, superclass, superfamily, superorder, superpower, superspecies, systematics, taxonomy, terminology, territory, toparchia, toparchy, toponymy, tribe, trinomialism, turf, variety, vegetable kingdom
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