Noun: kingdom
| Singular | kingdom |
| Plural | kingdoms |
Sample Sentences
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In 1924 the Hashemite King Hussein was driven out of the Hedjaz by Ibn Saud, and a state of war sprang up between the new kingdoms of Saudi Arabia and Trans-Jordan. [1956 March, R. C. Blaker, “The Hedjaz Railway”, in Railway Magazine, page 167:]
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A few other key remappings occur when you use the United Kingdom country... [1993, Allen Wyatt, W Edward Tiley, Jon Paisley, Using MS-DOS 6.2:]
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‘Lucknow is not a village. It is a city with a thousand years of civilization. It was the capital of the Awadh kingdom.ʼ [2023, Santanu Bhattacharya, One Small Voice, Fig Tree, page 11:]
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the kingdom of thought
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the kingdom of the dead
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The Organized and inorganized kingdoms are distinguished from each other by peculiarities of chemical composition, of form and structure, and of actions or functions. [1839, Jonathan Pereira, The Elements of Materia Medica:]
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It has micobiont from Ascomycota and Basidiomycota belonging to kingdom Fungi and photobiont from Trebouxia species. [2022, Dhanasekaran Dharumadurai, Microbial Symbionts, page 811:]
Nouns inflected like kingdom
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
1. From Middle English kingdom, kyngdom, from Old English cyningdōm from Proto-Germanic *kuningadōmaz, equivalent to king + -dom. Cognate with Scots kingdom, West Frisian keuningdom, Dutch koningdom, German Königtum, Danish kongedømme, Swedish kungadöme, and Icelandic konungdómur.
2. Etymology tree
3. Proto-Indo-European *ǵenh₁-
4. Proto-Indo-European *-yós
5. Proto-Germanic *kunją
6. Proto-Indo-European *-n̥kʷo-der.?
7. Proto-Indo-European *-nós
8. Proto-Indo-European *-iHnos
9. Proto-Germanic *-īnaz
10. Proto-Indo-European *-kos
11. Proto-Germanic *-gaz
12. ?
13. Proto-Germanic *-ingaz
14. Proto-Germanic *kuningaz
15. Proto-Indo-European *dʰeh₁-
16. Proto-Indo-European *-mos
17. Proto-Indo-European *dʰóh₁mos
18. Proto-Germanic *dōmaz
19. Proto-Germanic *-dōmaz
20. Proto-Germanic *kuningadōmaz
21. Proto-West Germanic *kuningadōm
22. Old English cyningdōm
23. Middle English kingdom
24. English kingdom See: Middle English Nouns '
kingdom', Dutch Nouns '
koningdom', German Nouns '
Königtum', Danish Nouns '
kongedømme', Swedish Nouns '
kungadöme', Icelandic Nouns '
konungdómur'.
Verbs referencing "kingdom"
Swedish Nouns
konungadöme, Dutch Nouns
koningdom, German Nouns
Königtum, Icelandic Nouns
konungdómur.