Word Finder - kingdom

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A realm having a king and/or queen as its actual or nominal sovereign.

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A realm, region, or conceptual space where something is dominant.

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the kingdom of the dead

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A rank in the classification of organisms, below domain and above phylum; a taxon at that rank (e.g. the plant kingdom, the animal kingdom).

I was left a kingdom with no idea how to lead.

I won't risk my kingdom for yours.

He was in a fairy kingdom where nothing resembled reality.

The kingdom would be expecting him.

May the kingdom of Heaven be his!

The kingdom appeared peaceful from a distance.

He was in a fairy kingdom where everything was possible.

They remain at the boundary of his kingdom and Corcoran.

I want my father's kingdom.

He held the ruler of the greatest kingdom at his mercy!

I kept the kingdom together and will rescue it once she's dead.

There are three stadia, or moments, in this process of nature - (i) the mechanical moment, or matter devoid of individuality; (2) the physical moment, or matter which has particularized itself in bodies - the solar system; and (3) the organic moment, or organic beings, beginning with the geological organism - or the mineral kingdom, plants and animals.

In 1814 it was incorporated in the kingdom of the United Netherlands, and it was here that Louis XVIII.

Unless one can somehow imagine NATO countries going to war with each other, such as Belgium invading the United Kingdom, it is hard to see how "world wars" could escalate outside of NATO member countries.

If I lose the kingdom and the warlord, it won't be to men like you or Memon.

He proclaimed himself dictator of the kingdom, with Bertani as secretary of state, but as a proof of his loyalty he consigned the Neapolitan fleet to Persano.

The new kingdom was recognized by Great 1 tam within a fortnight, by France three months later, and the sequently by ptber powers.

Under the stress of the appalling financial conditions represented by chronic deficit, crushing taxation, the heavy expenditure necessary for the consolidation of the kingdom, the reform of the army and the interest on the pontifical debt, Sella, on the 11th of December 1871, exposed to parliament the financial situation in all its nakedness.

Odo was also obliged to fight the Saracens who invaded the southern part of his kingdom, and inflicted a severe defeat upon them at Toulouse in 721.

It can only be said that their organization, so far as the state of their preservation permits it to be ascertained, offers closer analogies with the Hydrozoa, especially the Calyptoblastea, than with any other existing group of the animal kingdom.

The city passed to Lorraine in 843, and to the East Frankish kingdom in 870.

Boleslaus in his fury slew the saintly bishop, but so general was the popular indignation that he had to fly his kingdom.

The welding together of the great Kosala kingdom, more than twice the size of England, in the very centre of the settled country, led insensibly but irresistibly to the establishment of a standard of speech, and the standard followed was the language used at the court at Savatthi in the Nepalese hills, the capital of Kosala.

This expedient of buying off the invader was first adopted in 991 on the advice of certain great men of the kingdom.

There can be no doubt that there is no fundamental difference between the living substance of animals and plants, for many forms exist which cannot be referred with certainty to either kingdom.

The kingdom of East Anglia comprised the two counties of Norfolk and Suffolk.

Then the Witches divided up the kingdom, and ruled the four parts of it until you came here.

Tantalus, too, great as he was above all mortals, went down to the kingdom of the dead, never to return.

They, of course, are Walden all over and all through; are themselves small Waldens in the animal kingdom, Waldenses.

We lived under the late count--the kingdom of heaven be his!--and we have lived under you too, without ever being wronged.

The kingdom perched on a cliff overlooking an ocean of velvet blue.

Taran spent the night on the wall, fighting with the men who had treated him like a brother for a kingdom he wanted but would never have.

She didn't doubt Taran's ability to defend her kingdom - -if he ever got the chance.

I knew he was meant for greatness, but I expected him to serve me when I'd rid the kingdom of my father.

And yet, he had to find a way to defend her…their kingdom before he could deal with its runaway queen.

The man before them wasn't the lost scout who refused to be tied to any kingdom or cause above his own.

With a deep breath, she turned her back on the kingdom, ready for the dark fate Memon intended for her.

The best proof of his not being ambitious of such a doubtful piece of preferment is that he made no attempt to get himself made king, regent or lieutenant-general of the kingdom at the time of the flight to Varennes in June 1791.

The kingdom of Cyprus passed to Hugh, his son by an earlier marriage, while that of Jerusalem passed to Maria, the daughter of Isabella by her previous marriage with Conrad of Montferrat.

Towards the end of his life Ivan was partially consoled for his failure in the west by the unexpected acquisition of the kingdom of Siberia in the east, which was first subdued by the Cossack hetman Ermak or Yermak in 1581.

Innocent excommunicated and deposed Ferdinand, king of Naples, by bull of the 11th of September 1489, for refusal to pay the papal dues, and gave his kingdom to Charles VIII.

The visits to the United Kingdom of properly organized teams of bowlers from Australia and New Zealand in 1901 and from Canada in 1904 demonstrated that the game had gained enormously in popularity.

That God is love and that the purpose of His love is the moral organization of humanity in the "Kingdom of God" - this idea, with its immense range of application-.-is applied in Ritschl's initial datum.

Reports to the Postmaster-General upon proposals for transferring to the Post Of f ice the Telegraphs throughout the United Kingdom (1868); Special Reports from Select Committee on the Electric Telegraphs Bills (1868, 1869); Report by Mr Scudamore on the reorganization of the Telegraph system of the United Kingdom (1871); Journ.

In 1031 it became the capital of a small Moorish kingdom, and, though temporarily held by the Portuguese in 1168, it retained its independence until 1229, when it was captured by Alphonso IX.

Edison's telephone patent was granted for the United Kingdom.

The kingdom is divided into 69 provinces, 284 regions, of which 197 are classed as circondarii and 87 as districts (the latter belonging to the province of Mantua and the 8 provinces of Venetia), 1806 administrative divisions (mandamenti) and 8262 communes.

By the consolidation of Apulia, Calabria and Sicily into a powerful kingdom, by checking the growth of the maritime republics and by recognizing the over-lordship of the papal see, the house of Hauteville influenced the destinies of Italy with more effect than any of the princes who had previously dealt with any portion of the peninsula.

Manfred was killed; and, when Conradin, a lad of sixteen, descended from Germany to make good his claims to the kingdom, he too was defeated at Tagliacozzo in 1267.

Civil Wan He lost the island, which gave itself to Aragon; and of Gue!phs thus the kingdom of Sicily was severed from that of anj Naples, the dynasty in the one being Spanish and Ghibelline, in the other French and Guelph.