rēgnum — meaning in English
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English meaning
Senses
rēgnum is used for these senses in English:
- Chichester A cathedral city and civil parish in West Sussex, England (OS grid ref SU8504).
- fief (figurative) A territory, a domain, an area over which one exercises lordly control, particularly with regard to corporate or governmental bureaucracies.
- 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]
fief — full definition
- noun Historically, land granted by a lord to a vassal in exchange for loyalty and service.
- noun Any area or organization that one person controls as if it were their private domain.
kingdom — full definition
- noun A country or territory ruled by a king or queen.
- noun A conceptual area or field where something is dominant or supreme.
- noun One of the highest major categories in the classification of living things, above phylum (such as the animal kingdom or plant kingdom).