king

Etymology

Definitions

1. 1

   A male monarch

   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.
   • Charles the third became the new king of England from 2022.
2. 2

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

   • Hatshepsut was ruling as a king, not queen and she needed to be recognised as such.
3. 3

   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[.]
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   1. 4

      A powerful or majorly influential person

      A powerful or majorly influential person; someone who holds the preeminent position.

      • Howard Stern styled himself as the "king of all media".
      • I'd been the dodgem car king at the Brisbane Ekka in 1975 and all those skills can flooding back[.]
   2. 5

      Something that has a preeminent position.

      • In times of financial panic, cash is king.
   3. 6

      A component of certain games.

   4. 7

      A king skin.

      • Oi mate, have you got kings?
   5. 8

      A male dragonfly

      A male dragonfly; a drake.

   6. 9

      A king-sized bed.

      • Try asking for a king-size bed next time because kings are usually firmer.
   7. 10

      A vertex in a directed graph which can reach every other vertex via a path with a length…

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

   8. 11

      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 […] .
      • 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.
   9. 12

      To rule over as king.

   10. 13

       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.
       • 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.
   11. 14

       To assume or pretend preeminence (over)

       To assume or pretend preeminence (over); to lord it over.

   12. 15

       To promote a piece of draughts/checkers that has traversed the board to the opposite…

       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.
       • 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[…].
   13. 16

       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.
   14. 17

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

   15. 18

       radiotelephony clear-code word for the letter K.

   16. 19

       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."
       • One, a grant by Archbishop Wulfred to that community, is datable to 825x32; while the other two (both copies of the same document) record an agreement between Archbishop Ceolnoth and Kings Egbert and Æthelwulf which was enacted in 838.
   17. 20

       An English and Scottish surname transferred from the nickname, originally a nickname for…

       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.

       • So when King – who had been in Atlanta for “Bloody Sunday” – telegrammed Parks about returning to Alabama to take part in a third mass march from Selma to Montgomery, her immediate answer was “Why, of course.”
   18. 21

       King class, a class of steam locomotives once used on the GWR.

   19. 22

       A number of places in the United States

       A number of places in the United States:

   20. 23

       A township in the Regional Municipality of York, Ontario, Canada.

   21. 24

       A village on New Ireland, Papua New Guinea.

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