| 单词 | the kingdom of fife |
| 释义 | > as lemmasthe Kingdom of Fife b. In full the Kingdom of Fife. The Scottish local government area or (until 1975) county of Fife, generally held to have been one of seven Pictish kingdoms. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > named regions of earth > Europe > British Isles > Scotland > [noun] > Fife kingdom1678 1678 J. Cunningham Ess. Inscription Macduff's Crosse 16 As this was one of, if not the oldest Regality in this Countrey, so by the Priviledges hereby granted..we have that common Phrase, The Kingdom of Fife, (an Epithet given to no other Shire). 1710 R. Sibbald Hist. Fife & Kinross i. i. 3 It was from the large Extent of Fife of old, that the Vulgar are wont to call it, The Kingdom of Fife. 1778 J. Murray Trav. of Imagination iii. 34 One of those ladies was married in the kingdom of Fife. 1800 J. Thomson Gen. View Agric. in Fife 390 An accumulation of the general stock and revenue of the kingdom, which will furnish large resources for supplying the exigences of the State. 1852 R. W. Billings Baronial Antiq. Scotl., Dysart II. 1 A ramble among the grey old towns which skirt the ancient ‘Kingdom’ of Fife. 1899 Westm. Gaz. 21 Jan. 1/3 (heading) Kodaks from the Kingdom. 1911 J. H. Short Chosen Days in Scotl. viii. 145 The Kingdom of Fife has had its share of history and romance. Abernethy, in the north, was the capital of the old southern Pictish Kingdom. 1978 New Scientist 28 Sept. 963/2 The row over a plan by Shell Expro to build a £400 million plant at Moss Moron in the Kingdom of Fife. 2011 Evening News (Edinburgh) (Nexis) 31 Mar. 20 We still talk about the Kingdom of Fife, a kingdom when Edinburgh was down the league somewhat. < as lemmas |
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