kingdom
part of speech
noun (a kingdom, kingdoms)
meaning for a pupil
1) A kingdom is a country ruled by a king or queen. tree →
2) In science, a kingdom is one of the biggest groups living things are sorted into, like the animal kingdom or the plant kingdom. tree →
3) A kingdom can be an area that belongs to someone, like «the kitchen is Dad's kingdom». tree →
4) A kingdom can also be a large group of things of the same kind, such as the mineral kingdom, which includes all the metals. tree →
sense in the lessons
In history and fairy tales kingdoms have castles, kings and queens; in science classification, living things are sorted from kingdom down to species. Phrases: «the United Kingdom», «the animal kingdom», «plant kingdom», «a magical kingdom».
examples
- The king ruled a large kingdom. tree →
- The United Kingdom has a king. tree →
- Lions belong to the animal kingdom. tree →
- Mushrooms are in the fungi kingdom, not the plant kingdom. tree →
- The princess saved the kingdom from the dragon. tree →
- Long ago, England had several small kingdoms. tree →
- The garden shed is Grandad's kingdom. tree →
- My father reigned over six kingdoms. tree →
note
Countable. King + -dom (realm). Capital letters for names: the United Kingdom. Trap: fungi are not plants; scientists put them in their own kingdom.
In the corpora
- England and Scotland joined to form the Kingdom of Great Britain in 1707, and Ireland joined in 1801 to make the United Kingdom.
- Later many kingdoms grew up along the river Ganges, with cities, kings and markets.
- In 221 BC the king of Qin conquered all the warring kingdoms and called himself the First Emperor.
- By the 1000s their lands were Christian kingdoms, and the Viking Age faded.
- England and Wales were joined with Scotland in 1707 and with Ireland in 1801 to make the United Kingdom.
Trees and pragmatics
Every meaning and example of «kingdom» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.