King
[kɪŋ]
Definition
(noun.) (chess) the weakest but the most important piece.
(noun.) one of the four playing cards in a deck bearing the picture of a king.
(noun.) 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.
(noun.) a male sovereign; ruler of a kingdom.
(noun.) a competitor who holds a preeminent position.
(noun.) United States charismatic civil rights leader and Baptist minister who campaigned against the segregation of Blacks (1929-1968).
(noun.) United States guitar player and singer of the blues (born in 1925).
(noun.) United States woman tennis player (born in 1943).
(noun.) preeminence in a particular category or group or field; 'the lion is the king of beasts'.
Inputed by Allen--From WordNet
Definition
(n.) A Chinese musical instrument, consisting of resonant stones or metal plates, arranged according to their tones in a frame of wood, and struck with a hammer.
(n.) A chief ruler; a sovereign; one invested with supreme authority over a nation, country, or tribe, usually by hereditary succession; a monarch; a prince.
(n.) One who, or that which, holds a supreme position or rank; a chief among competitors; as, a railroad king; a money king; the king of the lobby; the king of beasts.
(n.) A playing card having the picture of a king; as, the king of diamonds.
(n.) The chief piece in the game of chess.
(n.) A crowned man in the game of draughts.
(n.) The title of two historical books in the Old Testament.
(v. i.) To supply with a king; to make a king of; to raise to royalty.
Typist: Remington
Synonyms and Synonymous
n. Sovereign, monarch.
Checked by Emma
Definition
n. the chief ruler of a nation: a monarch: a playing-card having the picture of a king: the most important piece in chess: a crowned man in draughts: one who is pre-eminent among his fellows:—fem. Queen.—v.t. to play king.—ns. King′-at-arms or King′-of-arms a chief officer of the Heralds' Colleges whose designations are for England Norroy Clarencieux and Garter; for Scotland Lyon; and for Ireland Ulster; King′-bird an American tyrant fly-catcher; King′crab the chief or largest of the crab genus most common in the Molucca Islands; King′craft the art of governing mostly in a bad sense; King′cup the buttercup or upright meadow crowfoot; King′dom the state or attributes of a king: the territory of a king: government: a region: one of the three grand divisions of Natural History as the animal vegetable or mineral.—adj. King′domed (Shak.) endowed with kingly power proud.—ns. King′fisher a bird with very brilliant plumage feeding on fish the halcyon; King′hood kingship: kingliness.—adj. King′less.—ns. King′let King′ling a little or petty king: the golden-crested wren.—ns. King′lihood King′liness.—adj. King′-like.—adj. King′ly belonging or suitable to a king: royal: noble—also adv.—ns. King′-mak′er one who has the creating of kings in his power; King′post a perpendicular beam in the frame of a roof rising from the tie-beam to the ridge; King's′-cush′ion a seat formed by two people's hands; King's′-ē′vil a scrofulous disease or evil formerly supposed to be healed by the touch of the king; King′ship the state office or dignity of a king; King's′-hood the second stomach of a ruminant sometimes humorously for the human stomach; King's′-spear a plant of the genus Asphodel; King's′-yell′ow arsenic trisulphide or orpiment; King′-vul′ture a large tropical brilliantly-coloured American vulture; King′wood a beautiful Brazilian wood—also Violet-wood.—King Charles spaniel (see Spaniel); King Log a do-nothing king as opp. to King Stork one who devours his frog-subjects—from 苨op's fable; King Mob the vulgar multitude; King of beasts the lion; King of metals gold; King of terrors death; King of the forest the oak; King's Bench the bench or seat of the king: one of the high courts of law so called because the king used to sit there called Queen's Bench during a queen's reign; King's counsel an honorary rank of barristers; King's evidence a criminal allowed to become a witness against an accomplice.—Kingdom come (slang) the state after death.—Three kings of Cologne the three Wise Men of the East Gaspar Melchior and Balthazar.
Typist: Rosa
Unserious Contents or Definition
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 favors from a king, she will rise to exalted positions and be congenially wedded.
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Unserious Contents or Definition
n. A male person commonly known in America as a 'crowned head although he never wears a crown and has usually no head to speak of.
Typist: Manfred
Examples
- King George III, who had begun his reign in 1760, was resolved to be much more of a king than his two German predecessors. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Still, a person may hesitate about the probability of the son of a king being a philosopher. Plato. The Republic.
- Every king and princelet in Europe was building his own Versailles as much beyond his means as his subjects and credits would permit. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- The next Pope elected, Clement V, was a Frenchman, the choice of King Philip of France. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- The king's method of suppressing insurrections. Jonathan Swift. Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World.
- The King sprang from his seat with a gesture of anger. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
- But if so, the tyrant will live most unpleasantly, and the king most pleasantly? Plato. The Republic.
- Is this Justinian a king, that you talk about his subjects? Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
- Its founder was Clovis (481-511), who began as a small king in Belgium and ended with his southern frontiers nearly at the Pyrenees. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- The merry King, nothing heeding his dignity any more than his company, laughed, quaffed, and jested among the jolly band. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
- If you will only tell me what sort of girl Miss King is, I shall know what to think. Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice.
- It would seem that the manuscript is here imperfect, for we do not find the reasons which finally induce the curtal Friar to amend the King's cheer. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
- The empire of the Great King enters upon a period of decay. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- But the government of King William was not then fully settled. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- My good friend, said the King, you have now been five and forty years in the service of my mother and myself; we have allowed you to retain your religion in the midst of fire and slaughter. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
- Your god rules at the bridal of kings; look at your royal dynasties! Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- He went on to Persepolis, where, as the climax of a drunken carouse, he burnt down the great palace of the king of kings. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Neither must we sing to them of 'Gifts persuading gods, and persuading reverend kings. Plato. The Republic.
- They did not want to be bothered with it; it was, they conceded, the affairs of kings and princes. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Return, said Mara, and be a king, and I will make you the greatest of kings. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- The French kings of the Merovingian race had all treasures. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- When I used to read that in Sunday School, it suggested to me the several kings of such countries as England, France, Spain, Germany, Russia, etc. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- The Kings are off to the seashore tomorrow, and I'm free. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
- As the barbarian races settled and became Christian, the Pope began to claim an overlordship of their kings. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- My first displays the wealth and pomp of kings, Lords of the earth! Jane Austen. Emma.
- Useful clocks of wondrous make were described in the annals of the middle ages, especially in Germany, made by monks and others for Kings, monasteries and churches. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- But the old faith of the kings, owners, and rulers of the opening twentieth century had faded under the actinic light of scientific criticism. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- We have shown the necessary relationship of these early civilizations to the early temples and to king-gods and god-kings. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Confusedly in response to that demand, bold men, wise men, shrewd and cunning men were arising to become magicians, priests, chiefs, and kings. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- The art of war was the trade of kings and princes, and princely was the reward to the subject who was the first to invent the most destructive weapon. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
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