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   King·dom

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   noun

   • 1. a country, state, or territory ruled by a king or queen: "the Kingdom of the Netherlands" Similar realmdomaindominioncountrylandnationstatesovereign stateprovinceterritoryempireprincipalitypalatinateduchy
   • ▪ a realm associated with or regarded as being under the control of a particular person or thing: "the kingdom of dreams" Similar domainprovincerealmspheresphere/field of influencedominionarea of powerdepartmentterritoryfieldarenazoneorbit
   • 2. the spiritual reign or authority of God.
   • ▪ the rule of God or Christ in a future age.
   • ▪ heaven as the abode of God and of the faithful after death.
   • 3. each of the three traditional divisions (animal, vegetable, and mineral) in which natural objects have conventionally been classified. Similar divisioncategoryclassificationgroupinggroupclassfamilygenuskindorderbranch
   • ▪ the highest category in taxonomic classification.

   Word Origin Old Englishcyningdōm ‘kingship’ (see king, -dom).

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   1 day ago · A protist (/ ˈ p r oʊ t ɪ s t / PROH-tist) or protoctist is any eukaryotic organism that is not an animal, land plant, or fungus. Protists do not form a natural group, or clade, but are a polyphyletic grouping of several independent clades that evolved from the last eukaryotic common ancestor.

3. en.wikipedia.org › wiki › EmpireEmpire - Wikipedia

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   2 days ago · An empire is a political unit made up of several territories, military outposts, and peoples, "usually created by conquest, and divided between a dominant center and subordinate peripheries". The center of the empire (sometimes referred to as the metropole) exercises political control over the peripheries.

4. en.wikipedia.org › wiki › Seleucid_EmpireSeleucid Empire - Wikipedia

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   1 day ago · The Seleucid Empire (/ s ɪ ˈ lj uː s ɪ d /; Ancient Greek: Βασιλεία τῶν Σελευκιδῶν, romanized: Basileía tōn Seleukidōn, lit. 'Realm of the Seleucids') was a Greek power in West Asia during the Hellenistic period.

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   Are all animals part of the animal kingdom?

   • Other scientists did not consider all of them part of the animal kingdom, and by the middle of the century they were regarded within the groupings of Protozoa (early animals), Protophyta (early plants), Phytozoa (animal-like plants) and Bacteria (mostly considered plants).

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   What is a primigenal Kingdom?

   • This Primigenal kingdom would comprise all the lower creatures, or the primary organic beings, – 'Protoctista,' – from πρώτος, first, and χτιστά, created beings; ... ^ Haeckel, Ernst (1878).

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   What does Empire mean?

   • Aside from the more formal usage, the word empire can also refer colloquially to a large-scale business enterprise (e.g. a transnational corporation ), a political organization controlled by a single individual (a political boss ), or a group (political bosses).

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   What is a king and a queen?

   • In the Western world, the most familiar term for a monarch is king, or the feminine queen. A king or queen is the supreme ruler over a territory, of a higher rank than any other secular power except, in some cases, an emperor. Kings and queens have frequently claimed a divine mandate, or in some cases have been regarded as divine themselves.

   Monarch | Definition, King, & Emperor | Britannica

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6. www.britannica.com › topic › monarch-rulerMonarch | Definition, King, & Emperor | Britannica

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   May 1, 2024 · monarch, head of state of a monarchy, a state in which sovereignty resides in an individual ruler. Monarchs often achieve their status through heredity, such that rulership passes from parent to child or to another close relative in a royal family.

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7. www.britannica.com › plant › plantPlant | Definition, Evolution, Ecology, & Taxonomy | Britannica

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   May 13, 2024 · Plant, any multicellular, eukaryotic, usually photosynthetic life-form in the kingdom Plantae. There are an estimated 390,900 different species of plants known to science. Learn more about the plant kingdom, including the life and evolutionary histories and physical characteristics of the major plant groups.

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8. www.vocabulary.com › dictionary › plant kingdomPlant kingdom - Definition, Meaning & Synonyms | Vocabulary.com

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   Apr 30, 2024 · Definitions of plant kingdom. noun. (botany) the taxonomic kingdom comprising all living or extinct plants. synonyms: Plantae, kingdom Plantae. see more.

9. www.cia.gov › countries › united-kingdomUnited Kingdom - World Factbook Glyph

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   4 days ago · Introduction. Background. The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland was born of the unification of the Kingdoms of England and Scotland, which previously had been distinct states joined in a personal union, under the 1701 Acts of Union.