{
  "id": "kingdom.political",
  "term": "kingdom",
  "sense": "political",
  "pos": "noun",
  "status": "review",
  "level": 11,
  "arena": "kingdom.political",
  "domain": "political",
  "style": null,
  "definition": "a region with a government",
  "folk_gloss": null,
  "emergence": {
    "components": [
      "region.spatial",
      "government.administrative"
    ],
    "interaction": "the region is under the control of the government",
    "novel_properties": [
      "sovereign authority",
      "defined boundaries",
      "symbolic leadership"
    ]
  },
  "examples": [
    {
      "text": "The Kingdom of Great Britain was formed in 1707 by the Acts of Union between England and Scotland.",
      "domain": "institutions"
    },
    {
      "text": "The Aksumite Kingdom in East Africa administered trade routes and minted its own currency by the 1st century CE.",
      "domain": "history"
    },
    {
      "text": "The Kingdom of Kandy in Sri Lanka maintained sovereignty until British annexation in 1815.",
      "domain": "geopolitics"
    }
  ],
  "relations": [],
  "used_by": [
    "king.monarch"
  ],
  "forms": [
    "kingdom",
    "kingdoms"
  ],
  "closed": true,
  "provenance": {
    "author": "openrouter:openai/gpt-oss-120b",
    "date": "2026-07-29",
    "confidence": 0.6
  },
  "canonical": "https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-kingdom.political"
}