Definition of Kingdom

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Kingdom

The rank, quality, state, or attributes of a king; royal authority; sovereign power; rule; dominion; monarchy.

The territory or country subject to a king or queen; the dominion of a monarch; the sphere in which one is king or has control.

An extensive scientific division distinguished by leading or ruling characteristics; a principal division; a department; as, the mineral kingdom.

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Kingdom Quotations

Let us more and more insist on raising funds of love, of kindness, of understanding, of peace. Money will come if we seek first the Kingdom of God - the rest will be given.
Mother Teresa

The "kingdom of Heaven" is a condition of the heart - not something that comes "upon the earth" or "after death."
Friedrich Nietzsche

Our ambition should be to rule ourselves, the true kingdom for each one of us; and true progress is to know more, and be more, and to do more.
Oscar Wilde

The general who advances without coveting fame and retreats without fearing disgrace, whose only thought is to protect his country and do good service for his sovereign, is the jewel of the kingdom.
Sun Tzu

As every divided kingdom falls, so every mind divided between many studies confounds and saps itself.
Leonardo da Vinci

It is the folly of too many to mistake the echo of a London coffee-house for the voice of the kingdom.
Jonathan Swift

It is in moments of illness that we are compelled to recognize that we live not alone but chained to a creature of a different kingdom, whole worlds apart, who has no knowledge of us and by whom it is impossible to make ourselves understood: our body.
Marcel Proust

Boredom is the legitimate kingdom of the philanthropic.
Virginia Woolf

If you can do a half-assed job of anything, you're a one-eyed man in a kingdom of the blind.
Kurt Vonnegut

A kingdom founded on injustice never lasts.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Kingdom Translations

kingdom in Afrikaans is koninkryk
kingdom in Dutch is koninkrijk
kingdom in French is royaume
kingdom in Italian is regno
kingdom in Latin is regnum
kingdom in Norwegian is kongerike
kingdom in Portuguese is reino
kingdom in Spanish is reino
kingdom in Swedish is rike, konungarike, kungarike

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