The brave knight traveled across the ____ to rescue the princess from the dragon.
CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)
The ancient ____ flourished for hundreds of years before it was finally conquered by a neighboring empire.
Word Origin & History
From Middle English kingdom, kyngdom, from Old English cyningdōm from Proto-Germanic *kuningadōmaz, equivalent to king + -dom. Cognate with Scots kingdom, West Frisian keuningdom, Dutch koningdom, German Königtum, Danish kongedømme, Swedish kungadöme, and Icelandic konungdómur.
Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *ǵenh₁-
Proto-Indo-European *-yós
Proto-Germanic *kunją
Proto-Indo-European *-n̥kʷo-der.?
Proto-Indo-European *-nós
Proto-Indo-European *-iHnos
Proto-Germanic *-īnaz
Proto-Indo-European *-kos
Proto-Germanic *-gaz
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Proto-Germanic *-ingaz
Proto-Germanic *kuningaz
Proto-Indo-European *dʰeh₁-
Proto-Indo-European *-mos
Proto-Indo-European *dʰóh₁mos
Proto-Germanic *dōmaz
Proto-Germanic *-dōmaz
Proto-Germanic *kuningadōmaz
Proto-West Germanic *kuningadōm
Old English cyningdōm
Middle English kingdom
English kingdom
Literary Quotations & Historical Citations
"In 1924 the Hashemite King Hussein was driven out of the Hedjaz by Ibn Saud, and a state of war sprang up between the new kingdoms of Saudi Arabia and Trans-Jordan."
— 1956 March, R. C. Blaker, “The Hedjaz Railway”, in Railway Magazine, page 167:
"A few other key remappings occur when you use the United Kingdom country..."
— 1993, Allen Wyatt, W Edward Tiley, Jon Paisley, Using MS-DOS 6.2:
"‘Lucknow is not a village. It is a city with a thousand years of civilization. It was the capital of the Awadh kingdom.ʼ"
— 2023, Santanu Bhattacharya, One Small Voice, Fig Tree, page 11:
"The Organized and inorganized kingdoms are distinguished from each other by peculiarities of chemical composition, of form and structure, and of actions or functions."
— 1839, Jonathan Pereira, The Elements of Materia Medica:
"It has micobiont from Ascomycota and Basidiomycota belonging to kingdom Fungi and photobiont from Trebouxia species."
— 2022, Dhanasekaran Dharumadurai, Microbial Symbionts, page 811: