King (noun) Definition, Meaning & Examples

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noun
  1. a male sovereign or monarch; a man who holds by life tenure, and usually by hereditary right, the chief authority over a country and people.
  2. God or Christ.
  3. a person or thing preeminent in its class: a king of actors.
  4. a playing card bearing a picture of a king.
  5. the chief piece of each color, whose checkmating is the object of the game; moved one square at a time in any direction.
  6. a piece that has been moved entirely across the board and has been crowned, thus allowing it to be moved in any direction.
  7. a fertile male termite.
  8. a word formerly used in communications to represent the letter K.
verb (used with object)
  1. to make a king of; cause to be or become a king; crown.
  2. to design or make (a product) king-size: The tobacco company is going to king its cigarettes.
verb (used without object)
  1. to reign as king.
adjective
  1. king-size.
Verb Phrases
  1. to play the king; behave in an imperious or pretentious manner: He kinged it over all the other kids on the block.
noun
  1. U.S. tennis player.
  2. U.S. geologist and cartographer.
  3. U.S. civil rights leader (widow of Martin Luther King, Jr.)
  4. U.S. naval officer.
  5. U.S. Baptist minister: civil rights leader; Nobel Peace Prize 1964.
  6. U.S. springboard and platform diver.
  7. U.S. rancher and steamboat operator.
  8. U.S. blues singer and guitarist.
  9. U.S. political leader and statesman.
  10. U.S. novelist and short-story writer.
  11. Canadian statesman: prime minister 1921–26, 1926–30, 1935–48.
  12. vice president of the U.S. 1853.
noun
  1. a male sovereign prince who is the official ruler of an independent state; monarch
    • a ruler or chief
    • (in combination)
    • a person, animal, or thing considered as the best or most important of its kind
    • (as modifier)
  4. any of four playing cards in a pack, one for each suit, bearing the picture of a king
  5. the most important chess piece, although theoretically the weakest, being able to move only one square at a time in any direction
  6. a piece that has moved entirely across the board and has been crowned, after which it may move backwards as well as forwards
  7. king of kings
    • God
    • a title of any of various oriental monarchs
verb (tr)
  1. to make (someone) a king
  2. to act in a superior fashion
noun
  1. B.B., real name Riley B. King. born 1925, US blues singer and guitarist
  2. Billie Jean (née Moffitt). born 1943, US tennis player: winner of twelve Grand Slam singles titles, including Wimbledon (1966–68, 1972–73, and 1975) and the US Open (1967, 1971–72, and 1974)
  3. Martin Luther. 1929–68, US Baptist minister and civil-rights leader. He advocated nonviolence in his campaigns against the segregation of Black people in the South: assassinated: Nobel Peace Prize 1964
  4. Stephen (Edwin). born 1947, US writer esp of horror novels; his books, many of which have been filmed, include Carrie (1974), The Shining (1977), Misery (1988), and Everything's Eventual (2002)
  5. William Lyon Mackenzie. 1874–1950, Canadian Liberal statesman; prime minister (1921–26; 1926–30; 1935–48)
King (noun) Definition, Meaning & Examples

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