The meaning of the word king

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King is the title given to a male monarch in a variety of contexts. The female equivalent is queen,^[1] a title which is also given to the consort of a king, although in some cases, the title of King is given to females such as in the case of Mary, Queen of Hungary.

• In the context of prehistory, antiquity and contemporary indigenous peoples, the title may refer to tribal kingship. Germanic kingship is cognate with Indo-European traditions of tribal rulership (c.f. Indic rājan, Gothic reiks, and Old Irish rí, etc.).
• In the context of classical antiquity, king may translate in Latin as rex and in Greek as archon or basileus.
• In classical European feudalism, the title of king as the ruler of a kingdom is understood to be the highest rank in the feudal order, potentially subject, at least nominally, only to an emperor (harking back to the client kings of the Roman Republic and Roman Empire).^[2]
• In a modern context, the title may refer to the ruler of one of a number of modern monarchies (either absolute or constitutional). The title of king is used alongside other titles for monarchs: in the West, emperor, grand prince, prince, archduke, duke or grand duke, and in the Islamic world, malik, sultan, emir or hakim, etc.^[3]
• The city-states of the Aztec Empire had a Tlatoani, which were kings of pre-Hispanic Mesoamerica. The Huey Tlatoani was the emperor of the Aztecs.^[4]

The term king may also refer to a king consort, a title that is sometimes given to the husband of a ruling queen, but the title of prince consort is more common.

Etymology

The English term king is derived from the Anglo-Saxon cyning, which in turn is derived from the Common Germanic *kuningaz. The Common Germanic term was borrowed into Estonian and Finnish at an early time, surviving in these languages as kuningas. It is a derivation from the term *kunjom «kin» (Old English cynn) by the -inga- suffix. The literal meaning is that of a «scion of the [noble] kin», or perhaps «son or descendant of one of noble birth» (OED).

The English term translates, and is considered equivalent to, Latin rēx and its equivalents in the various European languages. The Germanic term is notably different from the word for «King» in other Indo-European languages (*rēks «ruler»; Latin rēx, Sanskrit rājan and Irish ríg; however, see Gothic reiks and, e.g., modern German Reich and modern Dutch rijk).

History

The English word is of Germanic origin, and historically refers to Germanic kingship, in the pre-Christian period a type of tribal kingship. The monarchies of Europe in the Christian Middle Ages derived their claim from Christianisation and the divine right of kings, partly influenced by the notion of sacral kingship inherited from Germanic antiquity.

The Early Middle Ages begin with a fragmentation of the former Western Roman Empire into barbarian kingdoms. In Western Europe, the kingdom of the Franks developed into the Carolingian Empire by the 8th century, and the kingdoms of Anglo-Saxon England were unified into the kingdom of England by the 10th century.

With the breakup of the Carolingian Empire in the 9th century, the system of feudalism places kings at the head of a pyramid of relationships between liege lords and vassals, dependent on the regional rule of barons, and the intermediate positions of counts (or earls) and dukes. The core of European feudal manorialism in the High Middle Ages were the territories of the former Carolingian Empire, i.e. the kingdom of France and the Holy Roman Empire (centered on the nominal kingdoms of Germany and Italy).^[5]

In the course of the European Middle Ages, the European kingdoms underwent a general trend of centralisation of power, so that by the Late Middle Ages there were a number of large and powerful kingdoms in Europe, which would develop into the great powers of Europe in the Early Modern period.

• In the Iberian Peninsula, the remnants of the Visigothic Kingdom, the petty kingdoms of Asturias and Pamplona, expanded into the kingdom of Portugal, the Crown of Castile and the Crown of Aragon with the ongoing Reconquista.
• In southern Europe, the kingdom of Sicily was established following the Norman conquest of southern Italy. The Kingdom of Sardinia was claimed as a separate title held by the Crown of Aragon in 1324. In the Balkans, the Kingdom of Serbia was established in 1217.
• In central Europe, the Kingdom of Hungary was established in AD 1000 following the Christianisation of the Magyars. The kingdoms of Poland and Bohemia were established within the Holy Roman Empire in 1025 and 1198, respectively.
• In eastern Europe, the Grand Duchy of Moscow did not technically claim the status of kingdom until the early modern Tsardom of Russia.
• In northern Europe, the tribal kingdoms of the Viking Age by the 11th century expanded into the North Sea Empire under Cnut the Great, king of Denmark, England and Norway. The Christianization of Scandinavia resulted in «consolidated» kingdoms of Sweden and Norway, and by the end of the medieval period the pan-Scandinavian Kalmar Union.

Contemporary kings

Currently (as of 2022), fifteen kings are recognized as the heads of state of sovereign states (i.e. English king is used as official translation of the respective native titles held by the monarchs).

Most of these are heads of state of constitutional monarchies; kings ruling over absolute monarchies are the King of Saudi Arabia, the King of Bahrain and the King of Eswatini.^[6]

Monarch	House	Title	Kingdom	Reign begin	Age	Monarchy est.
Harald V, King of Norway	Glücksburg	konge	Kingdom of Norway	January 17, 1991	86	11th c.
Carl XVI Gustaf, King of Sweden	Bernadotte	konung	Kingdom of Sweden	September 15, 1973	76	12th c.
Felipe VI, King of Spain	Bourbon	rey	Kingdom of Spain	June 19, 2014	55	1978 / 1479
Willem-Alexander, King of the Netherlands	Orange-Nassau	koning	Kingdom of the Netherlands	April 30, 2013	55	1815
Philippe , King of the Belgians	Saxe-Coburg and Gotha	koning / roi / König	Kingdom of Belgium	July 21, 2013	62	1830
Salman, King of Saudi Arabia	Saud	ملك malik	Kingdom of Saudi Arabia	January 23, 2015	87	1932
Abdullah II, King of Jordan	Hashim	ملك malik	Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan	February 7, 1999	61	1946
Mohammed VI, King of Morocco	Alaoui	ملك malik	Kingdom of Morocco	July 23, 1999	59	1956
Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa, King of Bahrain	Khalifa	ملك malik	Kingdom of Bahrain	February 14, 2002	73	1971
Vajiralongkorn, King of Thailand	Chakri	กษัตริย์ kasat	Kingdom of Thailand	October 13, 2016	70	1782
Jigme Khesar Namgyel Wangchuck, King of Bhutan	Wangchuck	འབྲུག་རྒྱལ་པོ་ druk gyalpo	Kingdom of Bhutan	December 9, 2006	43	1907
Norodom Sihamoni, King of Cambodia	Norodom	ស្ដេច sdac	Kingdom of Cambodia	October 14, 2004	69	1993 / 1953
Tupou VI, King of Tonga	Tupou	king / tu’i	Kingdom of Tonga	March 18, 2012	63	1970
Letsie III, King of Lesotho	Moshesh	king / morena	Kingdom of Lesotho	February 7, 1996	59	1966
Mswati III, King of Eswatini	Dlamini	ngwenyama	Kingdom of Eswatini	April 25, 1986	54	1968
Charles III, King of the United Kingdom	Windsor	King	United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland and Commonwealth realms	September 8, 2022	74	927 / 843

See also

Notes

References

• Cannadine, David; Price, Simon, eds. (1987). Rituals of Royalty: Power and Ceremonial in Traditional Societies. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 0-521-33513-2. LCCN 86-29881.
• Craughwell, Thomas J. (2009). 5,000 Years of Royalty: Kings, Queens, Princes, Emperors & Tsars. Black Dog & Leventhal Publishers. ISBN 978-1-60376-189-5.
• Hani, Jean (2011). Sacred Royalty: From the Pharaoh to the Most Christian King. The Matheson Trust. ISBN 978-1-908092-05-2.

External links

• Media related to Kings at Wikimedia Commons

• Phillip, Walter Alison (1911). «King» . Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 15 (11th ed.). pp. 805–806.

English[edit]

Alternative forms[edit]

• kyng, kynge (archaic)
• kinge (obsolete)

Pronunciation[edit]

• enPR: kĭng, IPA^(key): /kɪŋ/
• (US, pre-/ŋ/ tensing), IPA^(key): /kiŋ/
• Rhymes: -ɪŋ

Etymology 1[edit]

From Middle English king, kyng, from Old English cyng, cyning (“king”), from Proto-West Germanic *kuning, from Proto-Germanic *kuningaz, *kunungaz (“king”), equivalent to kin +‎ -ing. Doublet of cyning.

Cognate with Scots keeng (“king”), North Frisian köning (“king”), West Frisian kening (“king”), Dutch koning (“king”), Low German Koning, Köning (“king”), German König (“king”), Danish konge (“king”), Norwegian konge, Swedish konung, kung (“king”), Icelandic konungur, kóngur (“king”), Polish ksiądz (“priest”), Russian князь (knjazʹ, “prince”), Old Church Slavonic кънѧѕь (kŭnędzĭ), Romanian chinez, Finnish kuningas (“king”), Estonian kuningas, Ingrian kunigas, Karelian kuninkas, Livvi kuńingas, Ludian kuńingas, Veps kuningaz, Võro kuning and Votic kunikaz. Eclipsed non-native Middle English roy (“king”) (Early Modern English roy), borrowed from Old French roi, rei, rai (“king”).

Noun[edit]

king (plural kings)

1. A male monarch; a man who heads a monarchy. If it is an absolute monarchy, then he is the supreme ruler of his nation.

   Henry VIII was the king of England from 1509 to 1547.

2. A powerful or majorly influential person.

   Howard Stern styled himself as the «king of all media».

   • 1907 August, Robert W[illiam] Chambers, chapter I, in The Younger Set, New York, N.Y.: D. Appleton & Company, →OCLC:

     «I wish we were back in Tenth Street. But so many children came […] and the Tenth Street house wasn’t half big enough; and a dreadful speculative builder built this house and persuaded Austin to buy it. Oh, dear, and here we are among the rich and great; and the steel kings and copper kings and oil kings and their heirs and dauphins. […]«

   • 2014 June 21, “Magician’s brain”, in The Economist, volume 411, number 8892:

     The truth is that [Isaac] Newton was very much a product of his time. The colossus of science was not the first king of reason, Keynes wrote after reading Newton’s unpublished manuscripts. Instead “he was the last of the magicians”.

3. (countable or uncountable) Something that has a preeminent position.

   In times of financial panic, cash is king.
4. A component of certain games.
   1. (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.
   2. (card games) A playing card with the letter «K» and the image of a king on it, the thirteenth card in a given suit.
   3. 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.
   4. The central pin or skittle in bowling games.
      • 1878, John Henry Walsh, British Rural Sports (page 712)

        In knockemdowns and bowls ten pins are used, the centre one being called the king, and the ball has to be grounded before it reaches the frame.

5. (UK, slang) A king skin.

   Oi mate, have you got kings?

6. A male dragonfly; a drake.
7. A king-sized bed.
   • 2002, Scott W. Donkin, Gerard Meyer, Peak Performance: Body and Mind (page 119)

     Try asking for a king-size bed next time because kings are usually firmer.

8. The monarch with the most power and authority in a monarchy, regardless of sex.

   • 1891 January 3, ““King” Wilhelmina”, in The Chicago Daily Tribune, volume LI, number III, Chicago, Ill., page 5, column 7:

     The British Parliament has had made it for it in the past the claim that it could do anything excepting convert a woman into a man. […] And the high court [of Amsterdam] has done it by deciding that all officials and public servants shall take their oath of allegiance not to Queen Wilhelmina but to King Wilhelmina.

   • 2009, Charlotte Booth, “Hatshepsut”, in The Curse of the Mummy and Other Mysteries of Ancient Egypt, Oneworld Publications, →ISBN, page 93:

     Hatshepsut was ruling as a king, not queen and she needed to be recognised as such.

   • 2011, Nwando Achebe, “Mgbapu Ahebi: Exile in Igalaland, ca. 1895–1916”, in The Female King of Colonial Nigeria: Ahebi Ugbabe, Bloomington, Ind.; Indianapolis, Ind.: Indiana University Press, →ISBN, pages 63–64:

     The act of perforating one’s ears could be read as a gendering performance—a modification from an overt masculinity (king) to a tempered female masculinity (king with female traits)—in which the male king was expected to adopt the quintessence of Omeppa’s female king wife, Ebulejonu, and by so doing, embody the true essence of womanhood. […] Attah-Ebulejonu, like Hatshepsut of Egypt before her, ruled as (and was remembered as) a king, not queen, perhaps setting the precedent for the coronation of another female king, Ahebi Ugbabe, about four centuries later. […] This time, the female king would not rule in the Igala kingdom nor would she be of Igala origin. Instead, the king would be an Igbo woman who had lived in Igalaland for many years, who had come of age and matured there and in the process had imbibed the cultural values and mores of the people with whom she had lived in exile.

9. (graph theory) A vertex in a directed graph which can reach every other vertex via a path with a length of at most 2.

Synonyms[edit]

• Rex (the reigning king, formal), roy (obsolete, formal)

Coordinate terms[edit]

• (monarch): caesar, emperor, empress, kaiser, maharajah, prince, princess, queen, regent, royalty, shah, tsar, viceroy
• (playing card): ace, jack, joker, queen

Derived terms[edit]

Descendants[edit]

Translations[edit]

See also[edit]

• ♔, ♚

Chess pieces in English · chess pieces, chessmen (see also: chess) (layout · text)
king	queen	rook, castle	bishop	knight	pawn

Playing cards in English · playing cards (layout · text)
ace	deuce, two	three	four	five	six	seven
eight	nine	ten	jack, knave	queen	king	joker

Suits in English · suits (see also: cards, playing cards) (layout · text)
hearts	diamonds	spades	clubs

Verb[edit]

king (third-person singular simple present kings, present participle kinging, simple past and past participle kinged)

1. To crown king, to make (a person) king.
   • 1982, South Atlantic Modern Language Association, South Atlantic Review, Volume 47, page 16,

     The kinging of Macbeth is the business of the first part of the play […] .

   • 2008, William Shakespeare, A. R. Braunmuller (editor), Macbeth, Introduction, page 24,

     One narrative is the kinging and unkinging of Macbeth; the other narrative is the attack on Banquo’s line and that line’s eventual accession and supposed Jacobean survival through Malcolm’s successful counter-attack on Macbeth.

2. To rule over as king.

   • 1599, William Shakespeare, “The Life of Henry the Fift”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene iv]:

     And let us do it with no show of fear; / No, with no more than if we heard that England / Were busied with a Whitsun morris-dance; / For, my good liege, she is so idly king’d, / Her sceptre so fantastically borne / By a vain, giddy, shallow, humorous youth, / That fear attends her not.

3. To perform the duties of a king.
   • 1918, Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen, The Railroad Trainman, Volume 35, page 675,

     He had to do all his kinging after supper, which left him no time for roystering with the nobility and certain others.

   • 2001, Chip R. Bell, Managers as Mentors: Building Partnerships for Learning, page 6,

     Second, Mentor (the old man) combined the wisdom of experience with the sensitivity of a fawn in his attempts to convey kinging skills to young Telemachus.

4. To assume or pretend preeminence (over); to lord it over.
   • 1917, Edna Ferber, Fanny Herself, page 32,

     The seating arrangement of the temple was the Almanach de Gotha of Congregation Emanu-el. Old Ben Reitman, patriarch among the Jewish settlers of Winnebago, who had come over an immigrant youth, and who now owned hundreds of rich farm acres, besides houses, mills and banks, kinged it from the front seat of the center section.

5. 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.
   • 1957, Bertram Vivian Bowden (editor), Faster Than Thought: A Symposium on Digital Computing Machines, page 302,

     If the machine does this, it will lose only one point, and as it is not looking far enough ahead, it cannot see that it has not prevented its opponent from kinging but only postponed the evil day.

   • 1986, Rick DeMarinis, The Burning Women of Far Cry, page 100,

     I was about to make a move that would corner a piece that she was trying to get kinged, but I slid my checker back […] .

6. To dress and perform as a drag king.
   • 2008, Audrey Yue, King Victoria: Asian Drag Kings, Postcolonial Female Masculinity, and Hybrid Sexuality in Australia, in Fran Martin, Peter Jackson, Audrey Yue, Mark McLelland (editors), AsiaPacifQueer: Rethinking Genders and Sexualities, page 266,

     Through the ex-centric diaspora, kinging in postcolonial Australia has become a site of critical hybridity where diasporic female masculinities have emerged through the contestations of «home» and «host» cultures.

Translations[edit]

Etymology 2[edit]

Noun[edit]

king (plural kings)

1. Alternative form of qing (Chinese musical instrument)

Anagrams[edit]

• gink

Estonian[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From Proto-Finnic *kenkä. Cognate with Finnish kenkä.

Pronunciation[edit]

• IPA^(key): /ˈkinɡ̊/, [ˈkiŋɡ̊]

Noun[edit]

king (genitive kinga, partitive kinga)

1. shoe

Declension[edit]

Quotations[edit]

Kapampangan[edit]

Alternative forms[edit]

• keng
• qng, queng, quing (Spanish variant)

Preposition[edit]

king

1. indirect object marker; of, to, at, on, in, into, onto, among, around, for

Manx[edit]

Noun[edit]

king m

1. inflection of kione:
   1. genitive singular
   2. nominative plural

Mutation[edit]

Manx mutation
Radical	Lenition	Eclipsis
king	ching	ging
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Middle English[edit]

Alternative forms[edit]

• kenin, kening, kinig (in compounds, toponymic)
• gug, kug (in compounds, influenced by Old Norse (see etymology))
• knyng (transmission error)
• chinge, chinȝ, cing, cining, cinȝ, ging, keing, keng, kingk, kingue, kining, kink, kyng, kynge

Etymology[edit]

Inherited from the Old English cyning, from Proto-West Germanic *kuning, from Proto-Germanic *kuningaz. The forms kug (attested in the compounds kugdom, kuglond, and kugriche) and gug (attested in the compound guglond) show the influence of the Old Norse konungr, whence they borrow their root vowel. The early forms featuring syncope (chinge, chinȝ, cing, and cinȝ) may have long ī.

Pronunciation[edit]

• IPA^(key): /kinɡ/, [kiŋɡ]

Noun[edit]

king (nominative plural kinges, also the early forms kingas or kingæs)

1. king (monarch)
2. king (chess piece)

Derived terms[edit]

Descendants[edit]

• English: king (see there for further descendants)
• Scots: keeng, king
• Yola: kinge, king

References[edit]

• “king, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.

Swedish[edit]

Etymology[edit]

Borrowed from English king.

Adjective[edit]

king

1. (slang) great, awesome

   Deras sound är king asså

   Their sound is so awesome

   Helgen var king

   The weekend was awesome

   – Jag lyckades fixa datorn. – King!

   – I managed to fix the computer. – Awesome!

   Synonym: kunglig

Usage notes[edit]

Uninflected.

References[edit]

• Slangopedia

Tok Pisin[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From English king.

Noun[edit]

king

1. king

Yola[edit]

Noun[edit]

king

1. Alternative form of kinge

   • 1867, “THE WEDDEEN O BALLYMORE”, in SONGS, ETC. IN THE DIALECT OF FORTH AND BARGY, number 5:

     Earch myde was a queen, an earch bye was a king;

     Each maid was a queen, and each boy was a king;

References[edit]

• Jacob Poole (1867), William Barnes, editor, A Glossary, With some Pieces of Verse, of the old Dialect of the English Colony in the Baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, London: J. Russell Smith, page 96

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— Updated example sentences

• Defenition of the word king

  • A male member of a Royal Family and supreme ruler of his nation.
  • The principal playing piece in chess, which moves only one square per move (except in castling) and in all eight directions. When one’s king is in «checkmate», the game is won by the opposing player.
  • A playing card with a picture of a king on its face; the 13th card in a given suit.
  • a very wealthy or powerful businessman: «an oil baron»
  • weakest but most important chess piece
  • one of the four playing cards in a deck bearing the picture of a king
  • a male sovereign; ruler of a kingdom
  • 1929-1968
  • a competitor who holds a preeminent position
  • (chess) the weakest but the most important piece
  • a checker that has been moved to the opponent»s first row where it is promoted to a piece that is free to move either forward or backward
  • a very wealthy or powerful businessman; «an oil baron»
  • United States charismatic civil rights leader and Baptist minister who campaigned against the segregation of Blacks (1929-1968)
  • United States guitar player and singer of the blues (born in 1925)
  • United States woman tennis player (born in 1943)
  • preeminence in a particular category or group or field; «the lion is the king of beasts»
  • a checker that has been moved to the opponent’s first row where it is promoted to a piece that is free to move either forward or backward
  • a very wealthy or powerful businessman
  • preeminence in a particular category or group or field

Synonyms for the word king

• • baron
  • big businessman
  • business leader
  • emperor
  • King
  • magnate
  • male monarch
  • Martin Luther King
  • mogul
  • power
  • queen
  • ruler
  • sovereign
  • top executive
  • tycoon
  • world-beater

Similar words in the king

• • king
  • king’s
  • kingdoms
  • kingfisher
  • kingfisher’s
  • kingfishers
  • kinglier
  • kingliest
  • kingly
  • kingpin
  • kingpin’s
  • kingpins
  • kingship
  • kingship’s
  • kingston
  • kingston’s
  • kingstown
  • kingstown’s

Meronymys for the word king

• • royal family
  • royal house
  • royal line
  • royalty

Hyponyms for the word king

• • AElfred
  • Ahab
  • Akhenaten
  • Akhenaton
  • Alaric
  • Alfred
  • Alfred the Great
  • Amenhotep IV
  • Artaxerxes
  • Artaxerxes I
  • Artaxerxes II
  • Ashurbanipal
  • Assurbanipal
  • Asurbanipal
  • Athelstan
  • Attila
  • Bruce
  • Carl XVI Gustaf
  • Carl XVI Gustav
  • Clovis
  • Clovis I
  • Croesus
  • Cyrus II
  • Cyrus the Elder
  • Cyrus the Great
  • Darius I
  • Darius III
  • Darius the Great
  • David
  • Edmund I
  • Edmund II
  • Edmund Ironside
  • Edward the Elder
  • Edwin
  • Egbert
  • Ethelbert
  • Ethelred
  • Ethelred I
  • Ethelred II
  • Ethelred the Unready
  • Ezekias
  • Fahd
  • Fahd ibn Abdel Aziz al-Saud
  • Faisal
  • Faisal ibn Abdel Aziz al-Saud
  • Farouk I
  • Faruk I
  • Ferdinand I
  • Ferdinand the Catholic
  • Ferdinand the Great
  • Ferdinand V
  • Frederick I
  • Frederick II
  • Frederick the Great
  • Frederick William I
  • Frederick William II
  • Frederick William III
  • Frederick William IV
  • Gaiseric
  • Genseric
  • Gilgamesh
  • Gordius
  • Gustavus
  • Gustavus Adolphus
  • Gustavus I
  • Gustavus II
  • Gustavus V
  • Hammurabi
  • Hammurapi
  • Herod
  • Herod the Great
  • Hezekiah
  • Husain
  • Husayn
  • Hussein
  • ibn Talal Hussein
  • Ikhanaton
  • James IV
  • Jeroboam
  • Jeroboam I
  • Juan Carlos
  • Juan Carlos Victor Maria de Borbon y Borbon
  • Kamehameha I
  • Kamehameha the Great
  • King Hussein
  • King of England
  • King of France
  • King of Great Britain
  • king of the germans
  • Leonidas
  • Lucius Tarquinius Superbus
  • Macbeth
  • Messiah
  • Mithridates
  • Mithridates the Great
  • Mithridates VI
  • Nebuchadnezzar
  • Nebuchadnezzar II
  • Nebuchadrezzar
  • Nebuchadrezzar II
  • oil tycoon
  • Olaf II
  • Olav II
  • Otho I
  • Otto I
  • Otto the Great
  • Philip Augustus
  • Philip II
  • Philip II of Macedon
  • Philip II of Spain
  • Philip of Valois
  • Philip V
  • Philip VI
  • Ptolemy I
  • Ptolemy II
  • Pyrrhus
  • Rameses
  • Ramesses
  • Ramses
  • Robert I
  • Robert the Bruce
  • Saint Olaf
  • Saint Olav
  • Saul
  • Scourge of God
  • Scourge of the Gods
  • Sennacherib
  • Solomon
  • St. Olaf
  • St. Olav
  • Tarquin
  • Tarquin the Proud
  • Tarquinius
  • Tarquinius Superbus
  • Victor Emanuel II
  • Victor Emanuel III
  • Xerxes I
  • Xerxes the Great

Hypernyms for the word king

• • businessman
  • card
  • challenger
  • checker
  • chequer
  • chess piece
  • chessman
  • civil rights activist
  • civil rights leader
  • civil rights worker
  • clergyman
  • competition
  • competitor
  • contender
  • court card
  • crowned head
  • distinction
  • eminence
  • face card
  • guitar player
  • guitarist
  • man of affairs
  • man of the cloth
  • monarch
  • note
  • picture card
  • piece
  • preeminence
  • reverend
  • rival
  • singer
  • sovereign
  • tennis player
  • vocaliser
  • vocalist
  • vocalizer

Antonyms for the word king

• • female monarch
  • man
  • queen
  • queen regnant

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Boleslav, king of Poland, granted the style of “king” (1157). ❋ Unknown (2001)

_And they brought out the king‘s king‘s son and put upon him son and put upon him the crown and the crown and the bracelet, the bracelet and they made him king_, and they made him king and and Jehoiada and his sons _anointed anointed him, and they clapped him and said: their hands and said: Long live the king_. ❋ Julius Wellhausen (1881)

«Thirteen millions in my cellar,» said the king; «Colbert carrying my purse and D’Artagnan my sword — _I am king_.» ❋ Alexandre Dumas P��re (1836)

‘_Is man_,’ — it is _the king_ who generalises, it is the king who introduces this levelling suggestion here in the _abstract_, while the ❋ Delia Bacon (1835)

The king then descended the stairs, amid such acclamations of _health to the king_, as would have drowned the noise of cannon. ❋ Robert Kerr (1784)

Upon her companions rallying her for being so much carried away by the splendors of royalty, she declared «that it was not the king, as a _king_, who excited her admiration, but it was ❋ Unknown (1841)

[Footnote: The king of Persia, generally called _the king_ by the ❋ 384 BC-322 BC Demosthenes (1837)

«_Death_, _the king of Terror and Conqueror of conquerors_, _to his revered friend and neighbour Lucifer_, _king of Eternal Night_, ❋ Ellis Wynne (1702)

While the book of Esther never specifically mentions the name of God in its text, the word king is found throughout, and according to Talmudic scholars, has a double meaning. ❋ John Hagee (2010)

Happening now: He was in rehearsal and planning to reaffirm his claim to the title king of pop. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Bayh faces less competition for the title king of the red state Democrats, but the Democrat who is likely to benefit most is Edwards. ❋ Unknown (2006)

From these proceedings, it was clear that Rosas ultimately would become the dictator: to the term king, the people in this, as in other republics, have a particular dislike. ❋ Unknown (2003)

He then rebuilt Babylon and made one of his sons Shamash-shum-ukin its king; he gave another son, Ashurbanipal, the title king of Assyria. ❋ Unknown (2001)

There are considerable gaps: the seat of power shifted from one district to another and at most epochs the whole island was not subject to one ruler, so that the title king of Java merely indicates a prince pre-eminent among others doubtfully subordinate to him. ❋ Charles Eliot (1896)

«It’s a matter of understanding the thousands and thousands of references to the word king in every document in every period.» ❋ Unknown (2011)

A: My girlfriend just [dumped] me.
B: [Hang in there], king. It’ll [get better]. ❋ Cheesy On My Peeny (2020)

[King] has a big dick ….. omg I know
[Awe] that guy is a real [lady pleaser]
Wow King is smart
Dad I want to be like [king] when I get older
King with that fuck a nigga ❋ King Zion (2016)

My [comrade] [greeted] me with… «[peace king]». ❋ L.U.M.P (2005)

Bitch1:Aint that the king?
Bitch2: [No you] gotta be a Malesor to become [a king].
Bitch1: Oh aint that [some shit]. ❋ Bugaloo (2006)

[fuck me] king ❋ XxFootball08xx (2016)

I just [moved to] [Chicago], and my friend invited me to [Thanksgiving dinner]. That was so totally king. ❋ Smoorecrux (2009)

[ewww] that [tre flip] was [sooo] king ❋ Trevor Beck And Jeremy Jones (2008)

[Omg] king just [tweeted] [bye] ❋ Anonymus.78 (2020)

[Kings] Rolling [Death Cradle] is [pretty damn] tight ❋ Decca (2005)

Who’s [number one]?… He’s [the King]! ❋ Yelski (2006)

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Messiah

the awaited king of the Jews; the promised and expected deliverer of the Jewish people

Ahab

according to the Old Testament he was a pagan king of Israel and husband of Jezebel (9th century BC)

Amenhotep IV

early ruler of Egypt who rejected the old gods and replaced them with sun worship (died in 1358 BC)

Alaric

king of the Visigoths who captured Rome in 410 (370-410)

Alfred the Great

king of Wessex; defeated the Vikings and encouraged writing in English (849-899)

Artaxerxes I

king of Persia who sanctioned the practice of Judaism in Jerusalem (?-424 BC)

Artaxerxes II

king of Persia who subdued numerous revolutions and made peace with Sparta (?-359 BC)

Ashurbanipal

king of Assyria who built a magnificent palace and library at Nineveh (668-627 BC)

Athelstan

the first Saxon ruler who extended his kingdom to include nearly all of England (895-939)

Scourge of the Gods

king of the Huns; the most successful barbarian invader of the Roman Empire (406-453)

Robert the Bruce

king of Scotland from 1306 to 1329; defeated the English army under Edward II at Bannockburn and gained recognition of Scottish independence (1274-1329)

Carl XVI Gustaf

king of Sweden since 1973 (born 1946)

Clovis I

king of the Franks who unified Gaul and established his capital at Paris and founded the Frankish monarchy; his name was rendered as Gallic `Louis’ (466-511)

Croesus

last king of Lydia (died in 546 BC)

Cyrus the Elder

king of Persia and founder of the Persian Empire (circa 600-529 BC)

Darius the Great

king of Persia who expanded the Persian Empire and invaded Greece but was defeated at the battle of Marathon (550-486 BC)

Darius III

king of Persia who was defeated by Alexander the Great; his murder effectively ended the Persian Empire (died in 330 BC)

David

(Old Testament) the 2nd king of the Israelites; as a young shepherd he fought Goliath (a giant Philistine warrior) and killed him by hitting him in the head with a stone flung from a sling; he united Israel with Jerusalem as its capital; many of the Psalms are attributed to David (circa 1000-962 BC)

Edmund I

king of the English who succeeded Athelstan; he drove out the Danes and made peace with Scotland (921-946)

Edmund Ironside

king of the English who led resistance to Canute but was defeated and forced to divide the kingdom with Canute (980-1016)

Edward the Elder

king of Wessex whose military success against the Danes made it possible for his son Athelstan to become the first king of all England (870-924)

Edwin

king of Northumbria who was converted to Christianity (585-633)

Egbert

king of Wessex whose military victories made Wessex the most powerful kingdom in England (died in 839)

Ethelbert

Anglo-Saxon king of Kent who was converted to Christianity by Saint Augustine; codified English law (552-616)

Ethelred I

king of Wessex and Kent and elder brother of Alfred; Alfred joined Ethelred’s battle against the invading Danes and succeeded him on his death (died in 871)

Ethelred the Unready

king of the English who succeeded to the throne after his half-brother Edward the Martyr was murdered; he struggled unsuccessfully against the invading Danes (969-1016)

Fahd ibn Abdel Aziz al-Saud

king of Saudi Arabia from 1982 to 2005 (1923-2005)

Faisal ibn Abdel Aziz al-Saud

king of Saudi Arabia from 1964 to 1975 (1906-1975)

Farouk I

king of Egypt who in 1952 was ousted by a military coup d’etat (1920-1965)

Ferdinand the Great

king of Castile and Leon who achieved control of the Moorish kings of Saragossa and Seville and Toledo (1016-1065)

Ferdinand the Catholic

the king of Castile and Aragon who ruled jointly with his wife Isabella; his marriage to Isabella I in 1469 marked the beginning of the modern state of Spain and their capture of Granada from the Moors in 1492 united Spain as one country; they instituted the Spanish Inquisition in 1478 and supported the expedition of Christopher Columbus in 1492 (1452-1516)

Frederick I

son of Frederick William who in 1701 became the first king of Prussia (1657-1713)

Frederick the Great

king of Prussia from 1740 to 1786; brought Prussia military prestige by winning the War of the Austrian Succession and the Seven Years’ War (1712-1786)

Frederick William I

son of Frederick I who became king of Prussia in 1713; reformed and strengthened the Prussian army (1688-1740)

Frederick William II

king of Prussia who became involved in a costly war with France (1744-1797)

Frederick William III

king of Prussia who became involved in the Napoleonic Wars (1770-1840)

Frederick William IV

king of Prussia who violently suppressed democratic movements (1795-1865)

Gaiseric

king of the Vandals who seized Roman lands and invaded North Africa and sacked Rome (428-477)

Gilgamesh

a legendary Sumerian king who was the hero of an epic collection of mythic stories

Gordius

legendary king of ancient Phrygia who was said to be responsible for the Gordian knot

Gustavus I

king of Sweden who established Lutheranism as the state religion (1496-1560)

Gustavus Adolphus

king of Sweden whose victories in battle made Sweden a European power; his domestic reforms made Sweden a modern state; in 1630 he intervened on the Protestant side of the Thirty Years’ War and was killed in the battle of Lutzen (1594-1632)

Gustavus III

king of Sweden who increased the royal power and waged an unpopular war against Russia (1746-1792)

Gustavus IV

king of Sweden whose losses to Napoleon I led to his being deposed in 1809 (1778-1837)

Gustavus V

king of Sweden who kept Sweden neutral during both World War I and II (1858-1950)

Gustavus VI

the last king of Sweden to have any real political power (1882-1973)

Hammurabi

Babylonian king who codified the laws of Sumer and Mesopotamia (died 1750 BC)

Herod the Great

king of Judea who (according to the New Testament) tried to kill Jesus by ordering the death of all children under age two in Bethlehem (73-4 BC)

Hezekiah

(Old Testament) king of Judah who abolished idolatry (715-687 BC)

ibn Talal Hussein

king of Jordan credited with creating stability at home and seeking peace with Israel (1935-1999)

James IV

a Stuart king of Scotland who married a daughter of Henry VII; when England and France went to war in 1513 he invaded England and died in defeat at Flodden (1473-1513)

Jeroboam I

(Old Testament) first king of the northern kingdom of Israel who led Israel into sin (10th century BC)

Juan Carlos Victor Maria de Borbon y Borbon

king of Spain since 1975 (born in 1938)

Kamehameha the Great

Hawaiian king who united the islands under his rule (1758-1819)

Leonidas

king of Sparta and hero of the battle of Thermopylae where he was killed by the Persians (died in 480 BC)

Macbeth

king of Scotland (died in 1057)

Mithridates the Great

ancient king of Pontus who expanded his kingdom by defeating the Romans but was later driven out by Pompey (132-63 BC)

Nebuchadnezzar II

(Old Testament) king of Chaldea who captured and destroyed Jerusalem and exiled the Israelites to Babylonia (630?-562 BC)

Saint Olaf

King and patron saint of Norway (995-1030)

Pepin the Short

king of the Franks and father of Charlemagne who defended papal interests and founded the Carolingian dynasty in 751 (714-768)

Philip II of Spain

king of Spain and Portugal and husband of Mary I; he supported the Counter Reformation and sent the Spanish Armada to invade England (1527-1598)

Philip II of Macedon

king of ancient Macedonia and father of Alexander the Great (382-336 BC)

Philip Augustus

son of Louis VII whose reign as king of France saw wars with the English that regained control of Normandy and Anjou and most of Poitou (1165-1223)

Philip V

king of ancient Macedonia whose confrontations with the Romans led to his defeat and his loss of control over Greece

Philip of Valois

king of France who founded the Valois dynasty; his dispute with Edward III over his succession led to the Hundred Years’ War (1293-1350)

Ptolemy I

the king of Egypt who founded the Macedonian dynasty in Egypt; a close friend and general of Alexander the Great who took charge of Egypt after Alexander died (circa 367-285 BC)

Ptolemy II

son of Ptolemy I and king of Egypt who was said to be responsible for the Septuagint (circa 309-247 BC)

Pyrrhus

king of Epirus; defeated the Romans in two battles in spite of staggering losses (319-272 BC)

Ramesses

any of 12 kings of ancient Egypt between 1315 and 1090 BC

Saul

(Old Testament) the first king of the Israelites who defended Israel against many enemies (especially the Philistines)

Sennacherib

king of Assyria who invaded Judea twice and defeated Babylon and rebuilt Nineveh after it had been destroyed by Babylonians (died in 681 BC)

Solomon

(Old Testament) son of David and king of Israel noted for his wisdom (10th century BC)

Lucius Tarquinius Superbus

according to legend, the seventh and last Etruscan king of Rome who was expelled for his cruelty (reigned from 534 to 510 BC)

Victor Emanuel II

king of Italy who completed the unification of Italy by acquiring Venice and Rome (1820-1878)

Victor Emanuel III

king of Italy who appointed Mussolini prime minister; he abdicated in 1946 and the monarchy was abolished (1869-1947)

Xerxes the Great

king of Persia who led a vast army against Greece and won the battle of Thermopylae but was eventually defeated (519-465 BC)

Canute the Great

king of Denmark and Norway who forced Edmund II to divide England with him; on the death of Edmund II, Canute became king of all England (994-1035)

Hugh Capet

King of France elected in 987 and founding the Capetian dynasty (940-996)

Charles Stuart

son of James I who was King of England and Scotland and Ireland; was deposed and executed by Oliver Cromwell (1600-1649)

Charles II

King of England and Scotland and Ireland during the Restoration (1630-1685)

Charles the Bald

as Charles II he was Holy Roman Emperor and as Charles I he was king of France (823-877)

Charles VII

King of France who began his reign with most of northern France under English control; after the intervention of Jeanne d’Arc the French were able to defeat the English and end the Hundred Years’ War (1403-1461)

Charles IX

King of France from 1560 to 1574 whose reign was dominated by his mother Catherine de Medicis (1550-1574)

Edgar

the younger brother of Edwy who became king of Northumbria when it renounced Edwy; on Edwy’s death he succeeded to the throne of England (944-975)

Edward I

King of England from 1272 to 1307; conquered Wales (1239-1307)

Edward II

King of England from 1307 to 1327 and son of Edward I; was defeated at Bannockburn by the Scots led by Robert the Bruce; was deposed and died in prison (1284-1327)

Edward III

son of Edward II and King of England from 1327-1377; his claim to the French throne provoked the Hundred Years’ War; his reign was marked by an epidemic of the Black Plague and by the emergence of the House of Commons as the powerful arm of British Parliament (1312-1377)

Edward IV

King of England from 1461 to 1470 and from 1471 to 1483; was dethroned in 1470 but regained the throne in 1471 by his victory at the battle of Tewkesbury (1442-1483)

Edward V

King of England who was crowned at the age of 13 on the death of his father Edward IV but was immediately confined to the Tower of London where he and his younger brother were murdered (1470-1483)

Edward VI

King of England and Ireland from 1547 to 1553; son of Henry VIII and Jane Seymour; died of tuberculosis (1537-1553)

Albert Edward

King of England from 1901 to 1910; son of Victoria and Prince Albert; famous for his elegant sporting ways (1841-1910)

Duke of Windsor

King of England and Ireland in 1936; his marriage to Wallis Warfield Simpson created a constitutional crisis leading to his abdication (1894-1972)

Saint Edward the Confessor

son of Ethelred the Unready; King of England from 1042 to 1066; he founded Westminster Abbey where he was eventually buried (1003-1066)

Saint Edward the Martyr

King of England who was a son of Edgar; he was challenged for the throne by supporters of his half-brother Ethelred II who eventually murdered him (963-978)

Eadwig

King of England who was renounced by Northumbria in favor of his brother Edgar (died in 959)

George I

Elector of Hanover and the first Hanoverian King of Great Britain and Ireland from 1714 to 1727 (1660-1727)

George II

King of Great Britain and Elector of Hanover from 1727 to 1760 (1683-1760)

George III

King of Great Britain and Ireland from 1760 to 1820; the American colonies were lost during his reign; he became insane in 1811 and his son (later George IV) acted as regent until 1820 (1738-1820)

George IV

King of Great Britain and Ireland and Hanover from 1820 to 1830; his attempt to divorce his estranged wife undermined the prestige of the Crown (1762-1830)

George V

King of Great Britain and Ireland and emperor of India from 1910 to 1936; gave up his German title in 1917 during World War I (1865-1936)

George VI

King of Great Britain and Ireland and emperor of India from 1936 to 1947; he succeeded Edward VIII (1895-1952)

Harold Harefoot

illegitimate son of Canute who seized the throne of England in 1037 (died in 1040)

King Harold II

King of England who succeeded Edward the Confessor in 1066 and was the last of the Anglo-Saxon monarchs; he was killed fighting the invasion by William the Conqueror (1045-1066)

Henry Beauclerc

King of England from 1100 to 1135; youngest son of William the Conqueror; conquered Normandy in 1106 (1068-1135)

Henry II

first Plantagenet King of England; instituted judicial and financial reforms; quarreled with archbishop Becket concerning the authority of the Crown over the church (1133-1189)

Henry II

king of France from 1547 to 1559; regained Calais from the English; husband of Catherine de Medicis and father of Charles IX (1519-1559)

Henry III

son of King John and king of England from 1216 to 1272; his incompetence aroused baronial opposition led by Simon de Montfort (1207-1272)

Henry III

son of Henry II of France and the last Valois to be king of France (1551-1589)

Henry Bolingbroke

the first Lancastrian king of England from 1399 to 1413; deposed Richard II and suppressed rebellions (1367-1413)

Henry IV

King of the Germans and Holy Roman Emperor (1050-1106)

Henry of Navarre

king of France from 1589 to 1610; although he was leader of the Huguenot armies, when he succeeded the Catholic Henry III and founded the Bourbon dynasty in 1589 he established religious freedom in France;

Henry V

son of Henry IV and King of England from 1413 to 1422; reopened the Hundred Years’ War and defeated the French at Agincourt (1387-1422)

Henry VI

son of Henry V who as an infant succeeded his father and was King of England from 1422 to 1461; he was taken prisoner in 1460 and Edward IV was proclaimed king; he was rescued and regained the throne in 1470 but was recaptured and murdered in the Tower of London (1421-1471)

Henry Tudor

first Tudor king of England from 1485 to 1509; head of the house of Lancaster in the War of the Roses; defeated Richard III at Bosworth Field and was proclaimed king; married the daughter of Edward IV and so united the houses of York and Lancaster (1457-1509)

Henry VII

King of the Germans and Holy Roman Emperor (1275-1313)

Henry VIII

son of Henry VII and King of England from 1509 to 1547; his divorce from Catherine of Aragon resulted in his break with the Catholic Church in 1534 and his excommunication 1538, leading to the start of the Reformation in England (1491-1547)

King James I

the first Stuart to be king of England and Ireland from 1603 to 1625 and king of Scotland from 1567 to 1625; he was the son of Mary Queen of Scots and he succeeded Elizabeth I; he alienated the British Parliament by claiming the divine right of kings (1566-1625)

James II

the last Stuart to be king of England and Ireland and Scotland; overthrown in 1688 (1633-1701)

John Lackland

youngest son of Henry II; King of England from 1199 to 1216; succeeded to the throne on the death of his brother Richard I; lost his French possessions; in 1215 John was compelled by the barons to sign the Magna Carta (1167-1216)

Louis the Pious

third son of Charlemagne and king of France and Germany and Holy Roman Emperor (778-840)

Louis the Stammerer

king of France and Germany (846-879)

Louis III

son of Louis II and king of the France and Germany (863-882)

Louis d’Outremer

king of France (921-954)

Louis le Faineant

the last Carolingian king of France (967-987)

Louis the Wideawake

king of France whose military victories consolidated his reign (1081-1137)

Louis VII

king of France who led the unsuccessful Second Crusade and fought frequent wars with Henry II of England (1120-1180)

Louis VIII

king of France who increased the power of the Crown over the feudal lords (1187-1226)

Saint Louis

king of France and son of Louis VIII; he led two unsuccessful Crusades; considered an ideal medieval king (1214-1270)

Louis the Quarreller

king of France (1289-1316)

Louis XI

king of France who put down an alliance of unruly nobles and unified France except for Brittany (1423-1483)

Louis XII

king of France who was popular with his subjects (1462-1515)

Louis XIII

king of France from 1610 to 1643 who relied heavily on the advice of Cardinal Richelieu (1601-1643)

Louis the Great

king of France from 1643 to 1715; his long reign was marked by the expansion of French influence in Europe and by the magnificence of his court and the Palace of Versailles (1638-1715)

Louis XV

grandson of Louis XIV and king of France from 1715 to 1774 who led France into the War of the Austrian Succession and the Seven Years’ War (1710-1774)

Louis XVI

king of France from 1774 to 1792; his failure to grant reforms led to the French Revolution; he and his queen (Marie Antoinette) were guillotined (1754-1793)

Otto the Great

King of the Germans and Holy Roman Emperor (912-973)

Richard the Lion-Hearted

son of Henry II and King of England from 1189 to 1199; a leader of the Third Crusade; on his way home from the crusade he was captured and held prisoner in the Holy Roman Empire until England ransomed him in 1194 (1157-1199)

Richard II

King of England from 1377 to 1399; he suppressed the Peasant’s Revolt in 1381 but his reign was marked by popular discontent and baronial opposition in British Parliament and he was forced to abdicate in 1399 (1367-1400)

Richard III

King of England from 1483 to 1485; seized the throne from his nephew Edward V who was confined to the Tower of London and murdered; his reign ended when he was defeated by Henry Tudor (later Henry VII) at the battle of Bosworth Field (1452-1485)

William the Conqueror

duke of Normandy who led the Norman invasion of England and became the first Norman to be King of England; he defeated Harold II at the battle of Hastings in 1066 and introduced many Norman customs into England (1027-1087)

William Rufus

the second son of William the Conqueror who succeeded him as King of England (1056-1100)

William of Orange

King of England and Scotland and Ireland; he married the daughter of James II and was invited by opponents of James II to invade England; when James fled, William III and Mary II were declared joint monarchs (1650-1702)

Sailor King

King of England and Ireland; son of George III who ascended the throne after a long naval career (1765-1837)

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ETYMOLOGY OF THE WORD KING

Old English cyning; related to Old High German kunig king, Danish konge.

PRONUNCIATION OF KING

GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF KING

King is a verb and can also act as a noun.

WHAT DOES KING MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Definition of king in the English dictionary

The first definition of king in the dictionary is a male sovereign prince who is the official ruler of an independent state; monarch related adjectives royal regal monarchical. Other definition of king is a ruler or chief. King is also a person, animal, or thing considered as the best or most important of its kind.

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SYNONYMS OF «KING»

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TRANSLATION OF KING

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «KING»

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1	0   0 king (n.) applied, at first in natural history, to species deemed remarkably big or dominant, such as king crab (1690s); the U.S. king snake (1737), which attacks other snakes and is regarded especial [..]

2	0   0 king a late Old English contraction of cyning «king, ruler» (also used as a title), from Proto-Germanic *kuningaz (source also of Dutch koning, Old Norse konungr, Danish konge, Old Saxon and Old [..]

3	0   0 king /ˈkɪŋ/ noun plural kings king /ˈkɪŋ/ noun plural kings Learner's definition of KING 1  : a male ruler of a country who usually inherits his position and rules for life [count] dethrone [..]

4	0   0 king King [N] [S]is in Scripture very generally used to denote one invested with authority, whether extensive or limited. There were thirty-one kings in Canaan ( Joshua 12:9 Joshua 12:24 ), whom Joshua sub [..]

5	0   0 king male monarch.

6	0   0 king a male sovereign; ruler of a kingdom a competitor who holds a preeminent position baron: a very wealthy or powerful businessman; "an oil baron" preeminence in a particular ca [..]

7	0   0 king a man who rules a country usually because his family did so before him

8	0   0 king the male reproductive termite in a colony. Read more on: King

9	0   0 king is in Scripture very generally used to denote one invested with authority, whether extensive or limited. There were thirty-one kings in Canaan (Josh. 12:9, 24), whom Joshua subdued. Adonibezek subdued [..]

10	0   0 king «a chief ruler, one invested with supreme authority over a nation, tribe or country.»—Webster. In the Bible the word does not necessarily imply great power or great extent of country. Many [..]

11	0   0 king A dish with a sauce of cream, mushrooms and green peppers, often chicken based.

12	0   0 king meylekh (mlokhim)

13	0   0 king kinig

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0   0 king To dream of a king, you are struggling with your might, and ambition is your master. To dream that you are crowned king, you will rise above your comrades and co-workers. If you are censured by a king, you will be reproved for a neglected duty. For a young woman to be in the presence of a king, she will marry a man whom she will fear. To receive fa [..]

15	0   0 king Food served in a cream sauce, often on toast.

16	0   0 king Food served in a cream sauce, often on toast.

17	0   0 king rex regis

18	0   0 king The Anglo-Saxon cyng, cyning, from cyn a nation or people, and the termination—ing, meaning “of,” as “son of,” “chief of,” etc. In Anglo- [..]

19	0   0 king A king should die standing. So said Louis XVIII. of France, in imitation of Vespasian, Emperor of Rome. (See DYING SAYINGS Louis XVIII.)

20	0   0 king , in termites (Isoptera), primary reproductive, usually being dealate (T-B; Krishna, pers. comm.).

21	0   0 king King was born in Lichfield in 1648, the son of a jobbing technician who had acquired a sufficient practical competence in mathematics to earn a modest …

22	0   0 king Supreme ruler, thought to be made so by God himself. Knight:

23	0   0 king n. «king; (pl. as proper name of literary work) Book of Kings (in the Bible),» s.v. king sb. OED. KEY: king@n king@n#propn

24	0   0 king n 274 king 7 kinges 1 kyng 197 kynge 1 kynges 65 kyngis 3

25	0   0 king n#propn 2 kynges 2

26	0   0 king King Radio Corp. (Avionics mfgr.)

27	0   0 king Piece that can move and capture backward and forward

28	0   0 king extra long, extra wide double bed about 78 by 80 inches.

29	0   0 king Male ruler of an independent country or state.

30	0   0 king

31	0   0 king A male monarch; a man who heads a monarchy. If it’s an absolute monarchy, then he is the supreme ruler of his nation. (Henry VIII was the king of England from 1509 to 1547.) A powerful or influe [..]

32	0   0 king The title of a king. A=An|English and Scottish|from=nicknames|dot=, originally a nickname for someone who either acted as if he were a king or had worked in the king’s household. (UK,rail transp [..]

33	0   0 king [[K@Shoulder K@Abdomen]]

34	0   0 king From the English vocabulary word king, ultimately derived from Old English cyning. This was also a surname, derived from the same source, a famous bearer being the American civil rights leader Martin [..]

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