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kingdomlet en · NOUN

Etymology

From kingdom + -let.

Meanings

1. (uncommon) A small kingdom (in various senses).
   • It is pleasing to see the excellent arrangements of Morro Velho amongst a people so defective in the organising and administrative capacity as are the English—at least in the Brazil. Let me cite, as an instance, a certain Anglo-Brazilian Railway, which consisted of four independent kingdomlets. 1869, Richard F[rancis] Burton, Explorations of the Highlands of the Brazil; […], volume I, London: Tinsley Brothers, pages 233–234:
   • The Grand Council of that important body, have, we learn, decided to divide England, for purposes of organisation and Primrose League government, into eight districts, named after the kingdomlets which existed in the time of the Heptarchy. 1886 August 30, “From Our London Correspondent”, in The Manchester Evening News, number 5458, Manchester: Manchester Guardian and Evening News Ltd, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 2, column 3:
   • He [Donald Trump] would be wise to take his diminishing bag of marbles and retire to his Florida kingdomlet while he can still enjoy being a little king, clothed or not. 2024 February 17, Frederick Nicholas Naftolin, “Trump's Big Loss in a New York Court”, in The New York Times (letters), New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 24 Feb 2024:
   • Ransacking the pastoral tradition, as had Offenbach and others before them, Gilbert and Sullivan hammered into place many of the building blocks of sophisticated operetta: mistaken identity, lovers of different classes, the use of a ship as a more modern equivalent of the self-contained Ruritanian kingdomlet. 1987, Rick Altman, The American Film Musical, Bloomington, I.N.; Indianapolis, I.N.: Indiana University Press, published 1989, →ISBN, page 134, column 1:

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