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Country vs. Kingdom — What's the Difference?

Country vs. Kingdom — What's the Difference?

Difference Between Country and Kingdom

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Country

A country is a distinct territorial body or political entity (i.e. a nation).

Kingdom

A country, state, or territory ruled by a king or queen
The Kingdom of the Netherlands

Country

A nation with its own government, occupying a particular territory
The country's increasingly precarious economic position
Spain, Italy, and other European countries

Kingdom

The spiritual reign or authority of God.

Country

Districts and small settlements outside large urban areas or the capital
A country lane
The airfield is right out in the country
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Kingdom

Each of the three traditional divisions (animal, vegetable, and mineral) in which natural objects have conventionally been classified.

Country

An area or region with regard to its physical features
A tract of wild country

Kingdom

A political or territorial unit ruled by a sovereign.

Country

Short for country music

Kingdom

The eternal spiritual sovereignty of God or Christ.

Country

A nation or state.

Kingdom

The realm of this sovereignty.

Country

The territory of a nation or state; land.

Kingdom

A realm or sphere in which one thing is dominant
The kingdom of the imagination.

Country

The people of a nation or state; populace
The whole country will profit from the new economic reforms.

Kingdom

In the Linnean taxonomic system, the highest taxonomic category into which organisms are grouped, based on fundamental similarities and common ancestry. One widely used taxonomic system designates five or six such groups
Animals, plants, fungi, protists, and prokaryotes (often divided into bacteria and archaea). Other systems divide organisms into domains (eukaryotes, bacteria, and archaea) that replace or rank above kingdoms.

Country

The land of a person's birth or citizenship
Foreign travel is restricted in his country.

Kingdom

One of the three main divisions (animal, vegetable, and mineral) into which natural organisms and objects have traditionally been classified.

Country

A region, territory, or large tract of land distinguishable by features of topography, biology, or culture
Hill country.
Bible country.

Kingdom

A realm having a king and/or queen as its actual or nominal sovereign.

Country

An area or expanse outside cities and towns; a rural area
A vacation in the country.

Kingdom

A realm, region, or conceptual space where something is dominant.
The kingdom of thought
The kingdom of the dead

Country

The people of a district who are eligible for jury service.

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).

Country

A jury.

Kingdom

The rank, quality, state, or attributes of a king; royal authority; sovereign power; rule; dominion; monarchy.
Thy kingdom is an everlasting kingdom.
When Jehoram was risen up to the kingdom of his father, he strengthened himself.

Country

(Informal) Country music.

Kingdom

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.
Unto the kingdom of perpetual night.
You're welcome,Most learned reverend sir, into our kingdom.

Country

Of, relating to, or typical of the country
A country road.
Country cooking.

Kingdom

An extensive scientific division distinguished by leading or ruling characteristics; a principal division; a department; as, the mineral kingdom. In modern biology, the division of life into five kingdoms is widely used for classification.

Country

Of or relating to country music.

Kingdom

A domain in which something is dominant;
The untroubled kingdom of reason
A land of make-believe
The rise of the realm of cotton in the south

Country

(chiefly British) An area of land; a district, region.

Kingdom

A country with a king as head of state

Country

A set region of land having particular human occupation or agreed limits, especially inhabited by members of the same race, speakers of the same language etc., or associated with a given person, occupation, species etc.

Kingdom

The domain ruled by a king or queen

Country

The territory of a nation, especially an independent nation state or formerly independent nation; a political entity asserting ultimate authority over a geographical area; a sovereign state.

Kingdom

A monarchy with a king or queen as head of state

Country

A rural area, as opposed to a town or city; the countryside.

Kingdom

One of seven biological categories: Monera or Protoctista or Plantae or Fungi or Animalia

Country

Ellipsis of country music
A country song
A country singer
A country festival

Kingdom

A basic group of natural objects

Country

(mining) The rock through which a vein runs.

Country

From or in the countryside or connected with it.

Country

Of or connected to country music.

Country

Originating in India rather than being imported from Europe or elsewhere.

Country

A tract of land; a region; the territory of an independent nation; (as distinguished from any other region, and with a personal pronoun) the region of one's birth, permanent residence, or citizenship.
Return unto thy country, and to thy kindred.
I might have learned this by my last exile,that change of countries cannot change my state.
Many a famous realmAnd country, whereof here needs no account

Country

Rural regions, as opposed to a city or town.
As they walked, on their way into the country.
God made the covatry, and man made the town.
Only very great men were in the habit of dividing the year between town and country.

Country

The inhabitants or people of a state or a region; the populace; the public. Hence: (a) One's constituents. (b) The whole body of the electors of state; as, to dissolve Parliament and appeal to the country.
All the country in a general voiceCried hate upon him.

Country

A jury, as representing the citizens of a country.

Country

The rock through which a vein runs.

Country

Pertaining to the regions remote from a city; rural; rustic; as, a country life; a country town; the country party, as opposed to city.

Country

Destitute of refinement; rude; unpolished; rustic; not urbane; as, country manners.

Country

Pertaining, or peculiar, to one's own country.
She, bowing herself towards him, laughing the cruel tyrant to scorn, spake in her country language.

Country

The territory occupied by a nation;
He returned to the land of his birth
He visited several European countries

Country

A politically organized body of people under a single government;
The state has elected a new president
African nations
Students who had come to the nation's capitol
The country's largest manufacturer
An industrialized land

Country

The people who live in a nation or country;
A statement that sums up the nation's mood
The news was announced to the nation
The whole country worshipped him

Country

An area outside of cities and towns;
His poetry celebrated the slower pace of life in the country

Country

A particular geographical region of indefinite boundary (usually serving some special purpose or distinguished by its people or culture or geography);
It was a mountainous area
Bible country

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