king
IPA: kˈɪŋ
noun
- A male monarch; a man who heads a monarchy. If it is an absolute monarchy, then he is the supreme ruler of his nation.
- The monarch with the most power and authority in a monarchy, regardless of sex.
- A powerful or majorly influential person.
- (countable or uncountable) Something that has a preeminent position.
- A component of certain games.
- (chess) The principal chess piece, that players seek to threaten with unavoidable capture to result in a victory by checkmate. It is often the tallest piece, with a symbolic crown with a cross at the top.
- (card games) A playing card with the letter "K" and the image of a king on it, the thirteenth card in a given suit.
- A checker (a piece of checkers/draughts) that reached the farthest row forward, thus becoming crowned (either by turning it upside-down, or by stacking another checker on it) and gaining more freedom of movement.
- The central pin or skittle in bowling games.
- (UK, slang) A king skin.
- A male dragonfly; a drake.
- A king-sized bed.
- (graph theory) A vertex in a directed graph which can reach every other vertex via a path with a length of at most 2.
- (World War II era, joint US/RAF) radiotelephony clear-code word for the letter K.
- The title of a king.
- An English and Scottish surname transferred from the nickname, originally a nickname for someone who either acted as if he were a king or had worked in the king's household.
- (UK, rail transport) King class, a class of steam locomotives once used on the GWR.
- A number of places in the United States:
- An unincorporated community in Gibson County, Indiana.
- A city in Stokes County and Forsyth County, North Carolina.
- A neighbourhood in north-east Portland, Oregon.
- An unincorporated community in Clay County, West Virginia.
- An unincorporated community in Wetzel County, West Virginia.
- A town in Lincoln County, Wisconsin.
- A census-designated place in Farmington, Waupaca County, Wisconsin.
- A township in the Regional Municipality of York, Ontario, Canada.
- A village on New Ireland, Papua New Guinea.
- Alternative form of qing (“Chinese musical instrument”) [A sounding stone, a Chinese musical instrument.]
verb
- To crown king, to make (a person) king.
- To rule over as king.
- To perform the duties of a king.
- To assume or pretend preeminence (over); to lord it over.
- To promote a piece of draughts/checkers that has traversed the board to the opposite side, that piece subsequently being permitted to move backwards as well as forwards.
- To dress and perform as a drag king.
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Examples of "king" in Sentences
- The king is governing the country.
- The power of the king was reduced.
- The king is regnant of the country.
- It strengthened the powers of the king.
- The sword reperesents the power of the king.
- He succeeded in increasing the power of the king.
- The deposed king wanders the country in the guise of a sage.
- The king owed allegiance to the king of the neighboring country.
- The National Legionary State took power upon the abdication of king.
- Once a king died, the powers of the king would divest into the senate.
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