"wingdom" meaning in English

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Noun

Etymology: wing + -dom Etymology templates: {{suffix|en|wing|dom}} wing + -dom Head templates: {{en-noun|-}} wingdom (uncountable)
  1. Winged creatures as a group. Tags: uncountable
    Sense id: en-wingdom-en-noun-5kvmho7a Categories (other): English blends, English entries with incorrect language header, English terms suffixed with -dom Disambiguation of English blends: 59 41 Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 87 13
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Etymology number: 1

Noun

Forms: wingdoms [plural]
Etymology: Blend of wing + kingdom Etymology templates: {{blend|en|wing|kingdom}} Blend of wing + kingdom Head templates: {{en-noun}} wingdom (plural wingdoms)
  1. A domain ruled over by a winged creature.
    Sense id: en-wingdom-en-noun-nFkHniTw
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Etymology number: 2

Inflected forms

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          "ref": "1947, Norman Corwin, Untitled, and other radio dramas, page 19",
          "text": "A lion for the jungle or an eagle for all wingdom?",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2001, Birds in Art: An International Exhibition, page 14",
          "text": "While the earth we have mistakenly taken to be our kingdom to overuse and misadminister as we please begins to show the wear and tear of that, he has given us a brilliantly preserved wingdom.",
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        },
        {
          "ref": "2013, Ivan Doig, The Sea Runners",
          "text": "Here it seemed, then, that you could navigate according to the clouds' positions, and that the routes of birds had nothing to teach but life's confusion—which it would be like both weather and wingdom to deceive you into.",
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          "ref": "1874, The Aldine: The Art Journal of America - Volume 7, page 36",
          "text": "But we, the while winging, And thoughtfully hymning, All day o'er the meadows green, See kindred in kingdoms Of manifold wingdoms In myriads by man unseen.",
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          "ref": "1991, Vassar Miller, If I had wheels or love: collected poems of Vassar Miller, page 49",
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          "ref": "2011, Carl Fanning, The Sara Bellum Review, page 161",
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          "ref": "2001, Birds in Art: An International Exhibition, page 14",
          "text": "While the earth we have mistakenly taken to be our kingdom to overuse and misadminister as we please begins to show the wear and tear of that, he has given us a brilliantly preserved wingdom.",
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          "ref": "2013, Ivan Doig, The Sea Runners",
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          "ref": "1991, Vassar Miller, If I had wheels or love: collected poems of Vassar Miller, page 49",
          "text": "Observe the Whooping Crane Who still enjoys the weather Despite his wingdom's wane — A bird of different feather.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2011, Carl Fanning, The Sara Bellum Review, page 161",
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