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单词 mother kingdom
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mother kingdom
mother kingdom n. now historical a kingdom in relation to its colonies or dependencies; (also, occasionally) an original or earlier kingdom from which another develops.
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1690 J. Child Disc. Trade x. 178 Where there is little Manufacturing,..the profit of Plantations, viz. the greatest part thereof will not redound to the Mother-Kingdom.
1726 J. Swift Gulliver II. iv. xii. 348 Their Caution in stocking their Provinces with People of sober Lives and Conversations from this the Mother Kingdom.
1897 Atlantic Monthly Apr. 529/2 It had its dawn more than three hundred years ago in the struggle of the little mother kingdom with the colossal power of Spain.
1998 An Scathan (Nexis) 30 Apr. s6 Before the end of the 6th century, about A.D. 595, the colony achieved complete independence from the Irish mother kingdom.
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