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# kingdom

«kingdom» in Mova's school dictionary: **a country ruled by a king or queen** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (a kingdom, kingdoms)

### meaning for a pupil

1) A kingdom is a country ruled by a king or queen. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/K/kingdom/#m1)

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 →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/K/kingdom/#m2)

3) A kingdom can be an area that belongs to someone, like «the kitchen is Dad's kingdom». [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/K/kingdom/#m3)

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 →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/K/kingdom/#m4)

### 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 →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/K/kingdom/#x1)
- The United Kingdom has a king. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/K/kingdom/#x2)
- Lions belong to the animal kingdom. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/K/kingdom/#x3)
- Mushrooms are in the fungi kingdom, not the plant kingdom. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/K/kingdom/#x4)
- The princess saved the kingdom from the dragon. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/K/kingdom/#x5)
- Long ago, England had several small kingdoms. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/K/kingdom/#x6)
- The garden shed is Grandad's kingdom. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/K/kingdom/#x7)
- My father reigned over six kingdoms. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/K/kingdom/#x8)

### 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.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/34-muscovy-england-and-france-how-the-big-powers-grew/12/)
- [Later many kingdoms grew up along the river Ganges, with cities, kings and markets.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/7-ancient-india-the-indus-cities-and-the-first-kingdoms/14/)
- [In 221 BC the king of Qin conquered all the warring kingdoms and called himself the First Emperor.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/9-ancient-china-dynasties-the-first-emperor-and-the-great-wall/4/)
- [By the 1000s their lands were Christian kingdoms, and the Viking Age faded.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/20-the-middle-ages-begin-the-vikings/7/)
- [England and Wales were joined with Scotland in 1707 and with Ireland in 1801 to make the United Kingdom.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/37-britain-and-ireland-a-short-story/10/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «kingdom» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/K/kingdom/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.