king

noun kings · kinge · kyng · kynge

1. countable A male monarch; a man who heads a monarchy; in an absolute monarchy, the supreme ruler of his nation. Henry VIII was the king of England from 1509 to 1547.
2. countable The monarch with the most power and authority in a monarchy, regardless of sex. 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 Ki
3. Australia, countable, historical A male leader of a traditional Aboriginal group, often used as a title by colonists. Old Culwaddy the ‘king’, squatting by the galley fire, looked up questioningly[.]
4. countable, figuratively A powerful or majorly influential person; someone who holds the preeminent position. Howard Stern styled himself as the "king of all media".
5. countable, figuratively, uncountable Something that has a preeminent position. In times of financial panic, cash is king.
6. countable, slang A man worthy of respect. I'm sure you got the job, king.
7. 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. The objective of each player is to place the opponent’s king ‘under attack’ in such a way that the opponent has no legal move. […] If the arbiter observes both kings are in check, or a pawn stands on the rank furthest from its starting position, he/she shall wait until the next move is completed.
8. A playing card with the letter "K" and the image of a king on it, the thirteenth card in a given suit.
9. 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.
10. The central pin or skittle in bowling games. 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.
11. A male dragonfly; a drake.
12. A reproductive caste of termites comprising males who remain in the colony mating with the queen and releasing pheromones that manage the other castes in the colony.
13. A chinook salmon (king salmon).
14. A group of animals whose tails have become entangled.
15. A king-sized bed. Try asking for a king-size bed next time because kings are usually firmer.
16. UK, slang A king skin. Oi mate, have you got kings?
17. A vertex in a directed graph which can reach every other vertex via a path with a length of at most 2.

Similar: Rex, roy

verb kings · kinging · kinged · kinge · kyng

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 […] .
2. To rule over as king. 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.
4. To assume or pretend preeminence (over); to lord it over. 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
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. 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.
6. To dress and perform as a drag king. 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.

noun kings

1. alternative Alternative form of qing (“Chinese musical instrument”).

noun Kings

1. radiotelephony clear-code word for the letter K.

   Similar: Kilo

2. The title of a king. As we climbed the Marykirk Bank Ogilvie spoke of the passes leading over to Deeside, and of the Royal deer forests around Balmoral; then, with mingled pride and modesty, he added, "I've driven the King seven times."
3. A King pigeon.

proper noun Kings

1. countable, uncountable 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. The Russians clinched the victory when Vera Zvonareva rallied to defeat Vania King, 4-6, 6-3, 6-2, in the first reverse singles match, giving her team a 3-0 lead. […] After Russia went ahead, 3-0, Ahsha Rolle defeated Elena Vesnina, 6-3, 6-4, then King paired with Liezel Huber to beat Vesnina and Sv
2. UK, countable, uncountable King class, a class of steam locomotives once used on the GWR which were all named after kings.
3. countable, uncountable An unincorporated community in Gibson County, Indiana.
4. countable, uncountable A city in Stokes County and Forsyth County, North Carolina.
5. countable, uncountable A neighbourhood in north-east Portland, Oregon.
6. countable, uncountable An unincorporated community in Clay County, West Virginia.
7. countable, uncountable An unincorporated community in Wetzel County, West Virginia.
8. countable, uncountable A town in Lincoln County, Wisconsin.
9. countable, uncountable A census-designated place in Farmington, Waupaca County, Wisconsin.
10. countable, uncountable A township in the Regional Municipality of York, Ontario, Canada.
11. countable, uncountable A village on New Ireland, Papua New Guinea.