King
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English
Noun
King (plural Kings)- 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.
- a powerful or influential person
- Howard Stern styled himself as the "king of all media".
- (chess) the principal playing piece in chess or variations of chess
- a playing card with the image of a king on it
Coordinate terms
- (male monarch): emperor, empress, maharajah, prince, princess, queen, regent, royalty, viceroy
- (playing card): ace, jack, joker, queen
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See also
- (chess pieces) chessman, chess piece, chess piece, chesspiece; bishop, castle/rook, king, knight, pawn, queen (Category: en:Chess) [edit]
- (playing cards) playing card, card; ace, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, ten, jack, queen, king, joker [edit]
Verb
King (third-person singular simple present Kings, present participle Kinging, simple past and past participle Kinged)
- (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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- Most common English words before 1923: women · cried · general · #360: king · nature · answered · thousand
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King
Manx
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King m.
Etymology
From Old Irish ceinn, cinn genitive singular and nominative plural, respectively, of cenn (“head”).
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King
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