kingdom
王国,国度,王室,王道
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Definitions
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- : 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 was from a monkey, who belonged to one of the clerks of the kitchen.