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kingdom of Pisces

kingdom of Pisces proper noun: the domain of fish; the sea.

Proper noun

kingdom of Pisces

  1. (figuratively) The domain of fish; the sea.
    • Now it is high heaking time, and bee the windes neuer so eaſterly aduerſe and the tyde fled from vs, wee must violently towe and hale in our redoubtable Sophy, of the floating kingdom of Piſces, whome ſo much as by name I ſhoulde not haue acknowledged, had it not beene that I muſed, how Yarmouth...1599, [Thomas] Nashe, Nashes Lenten Stuffe, […], London: […] [Thomas Judson and Valentine Simmes] for N[icholas] L[ing] and C[uthbert] B[urby] […], →OCLC, page 20
    • The episode is also a love story between Captain Cook and his beloved sea: the adventures of Mars through Neptune's kingdom of Pisces.1975, Maxine Moore, That Lonely Game: Melville, Mardi, and the Almanac (University of Missouri Studies; no. 63), Columbia, Mo.: University of Missouri Press, →ISBN, page 141

Questions about kingdom of Pisces

What does kingdom of Pisces mean?
Kingdom of Pisces means the domain of fish; the sea.
What part of speech is kingdom of Pisces?
Kingdom of Pisces is a proper noun.

Words near kingdom of Pisces in the dictionary

  1. Kingdom of Libya
  2. Kingdom of Morocco
  3. Kingdom of Naples
  4. Kingdom of Northumbria
  5. Kingdom of Norway
  6. kingdom of Pisces
  7. Kingdom of Poland
  8. Kingdom of Romania
  9. Kingdom of Sardinia
  10. Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
  11. Kingdom of Scotland

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