核心畫面
You can picture 'kingdom' as the whole territory that falls under one king's rule — everything inside the borders where his word governs. From this picture of 'a realm where one ruler reigns,' the word stretches to other kinds of all-covering realms: the great realms of nature, and the realm where God reigns.
可以想成一位國王統治下的整片疆土——邊界之內、由他的話語掌管的一切。從「一位統治者所管轄的領域」這個畫面，這個字延伸…更多收起
可以想成一位國王統治下的整片疆土——邊界之內、由他的話語掌管的一切。從「一位統治者所管轄的領域」這個畫面，這個字延伸到其他「無所不包的領域」：大自然的大分類領域、以及神所掌管的國度。原始詞典資料3 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
kingdomnoun/ˈkɪŋdəm/
- 1
A realm having a king or queen as its actual or nominal sovereign.
- 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.
- A few other key remappings occur when you use the United Kingdom country...
- 2
A realm, region, or conceptual space where something is dominant.
- the kingdom of thought
- the kingdom of the dead
- 3
biologynatural-sciencestaxonomyA rank in the classification of organisms, below domain and above phylum; a taxon at that rank (e.g. the plant kingdom, the animal kingdom).
- The Organized and inorganized kingdoms are distinguished from each other by peculiarities of chemical composition, of form and structure, and of actions or functions.
- It has micobiont from Ascomycota and Basidiomycota belonging to kingdom Fungi and photobiont from Trebouxia species.
資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。