King

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English

File:Koenig (Schach).jpg
The white and black kings (chess)
File:Shougi no koma oushou.svg
A king piece in shogi. Sometimes just .

Noun

King (plural Kings)
  1. a male monarch; member of a royal family who is the supreme ruler of his nation
    Henry VIII was the king of England from 1509 to 1547.
  2. a powerful or influential person
    Howard Stern styled himself as the "king of all media".
  3. (chess) the principal playing piece in chess or variations of chess
  4. a playing card with the image of a king on it

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Verb

King (third-person singular simple present Kings, present participle Kinging, simple past and past participle Kinged)

  1. (transitive) In checkers: to stack a checker on an opponent's piece that has successfully traversed the board to the opposite side. The piece so marked can then move forwards or backwards.

Adjectives for King

maleficent; deposed; uncrowned; shameful; tributary; wily; grisly; besieging; cautious; guarded; crafty; lofty; apostate; bereaved; loving; nominal; bonanza; well-intentioned; penitent; harlot; veritable; anointed; uxorious; lawful; captive; prostrate; rightful; boastful; mythological; guileless; pious; colorless; blameless; lottery; faithless; untamed; sanguine; unwholesome; resplendent; fangless; landless; provincial; incredulous; fratricidal; licentious; dissimulating.

Verbs for King

acknowledge—; anoint—; consort with—s; crown—; dethrone—; exile—; forsake—; guard—; honor— oraise—; respect—;serve—; —abdicates; —administers; — awes; —commands; —governs; —reigns ;— rules; —surveys.

Thesaurus

Muslim rulers, Prinz, ace, anointed king, atheling, banker, baron, best bower, big boss, big businessman, bishop, bower, business leader, businessman, captain of industry, cards, castle, chessman, chief, chieftain, clubs, crown prince, crowned head, czar, deck, deuce, diamonds, director, dummy, dynast, electronics king, emir, emperor, enterpriser, entrepreneur, face cards, financier, flush, full house, grand duke, hand, hearts, heir apparent, heir presumptive, high chief, honcho, imperator, industrialist, jack, joker, khan, king-emperor, kinglet, knave, knez, knight, lead, leading light, left bower, little businessman, lord paramount, luminary, magnate, majesty, man, man of commerce, manager, master spirit, merchant prince, mirza, mogul, monarch, overlord, pack, pair, paramount, pawn, petty king, picture cards, piece, playing cards, potentate, prima donna, prince, prince consort, prince regent, princeling, princes of India, principal, queen, regent, rook, round, royal, royal flush, royal personage, royalty, rubber, ruff, ruler, shahzada, sheikh, sherif, singleton, sovereign, spades, star, straight, superstar, suzerain, tetrarch, top dog, top executive, trey, trick, trump, tycoon

Etymology

From Old English cyning, from Proto-Germanic *kuningaz. Cognate with Dutch koning, German König, Swedish kung/konung.

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Estonian

Noun

King

  1. shoe

Manx

Noun

King m.

  1. genitive singular form of kione
  2. Plural form of kione.

Etymology

From Old Irish ceinn, cinn genitive singular and nominative plural, respectively, of cenn (head).


Tok Pisin

Noun

King

  1. king