Meaning of kingdomlet | Babel Free

Definitions

A small kingdom (in various senses).

uncommon

Examples

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

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