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rige — meaning in English

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English meaning

  • empire noun A large political unit made up of many territories or peoples, usually ruled over by a single powerful authority.
  • kingdom noun A country or territory ruled by a king or queen.
  • realm noun A kingdom or territory ruled by a monarch or supreme authority.
  • Reich noun A German empire, kingdom, or state, especially Nazi Germany (the Third Reich).

Senses

rige is used for these senses in English:

  • Reich A German empire, kingdom or nation; its territory or government.
  • empire A political state, often a monarchy, that has achieved a much greater current size than its initial size by conquering surrounding territories, cities or nations.
  • kingdom A realm having a king or queen as its actual or nominal sovereign.
  • kingdom (taxonomy) A rank in the classification of organisms, below domain and above phylum; a taxon at that rank (e.g. the plant kingdom, the animal kingdom).
  • realm (archaic, or, legal, &, rhetoric) A territory or state, as ruled by an absolute authority, especially by a king; a kingdom. [from ca. 1300]

empire — full definition

  1. noun A large political unit made up of many territories or peoples, usually ruled over by a single powerful authority.
  2. noun A large, powerful business or organization controlled by one person or group.

kingdom — full definition

  1. noun A country or territory ruled by a king or queen.
  2. noun A conceptual area or field where something is dominant or supreme.
  3. noun One of the highest major categories in the classification of living things, above phylum (such as the animal kingdom or plant kingdom).

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