Definitions for King

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King king

Spelling: [king]

IPA: /kɪŋ/

King is a 4 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 9 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 11 points.

You can make 26 anagrams from letters in King (gikn).

Definitions for King

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. (initial capital letter) God or Christ.
3. a person or thing preeminent in its class:
4. a playing card bearing a picture of a king.
5. Chess. the chief piece of each color, whose checkmating is the object of the game; moved one square at a time in any direction.
6. Checkers. a piece that has been moved entirely across the board and has been crowned, thus allowing it to be moved in any direction.
7. Entomology. a fertile male termite.
8. a word formerly used in communications to represent the letter K.
9. Billie Jean (Moffitt) [mof-it] /ˈmɒf ɪt/ (Show IPA), born 1943, U.S. tennis player.
10. Clarence, 1842–1901, U.S. geologist and cartographer.
11. Coretta Scott [kaw-ret-uh] /kɔˈrɛt ə/ (Show IPA), 1927–2006, U.S. civil rights leader (widow of Martin Luther King, Jr.)
12. Ernest Joseph, 1878–1956, U.S. naval officer.
13. Martin Luther, Jr. 1929–68, U.S. Baptist minister: civil-rights leader; Nobel Peace Prize 1964.
14. Maxine ("Micki") born 1944, U.S. springboard diver.
15. Richard, 1825–85, U.S. rancher and steamboat operator.
16. Riley B ("B.B") 1925–2015, U.S. blues singer and guitarist.
17. Rufus, 1755–1827, U.S. political leader and statesman.
18. Stephen, born 1947, U.S. novelist and short-story writer.
19. William Lyon Mackenzie, 1874–1950, Canadian statesman: prime minister 1921–26, 1926–30, 1935–48.
20. William Rufus DeVane [duh-veyn] /dəˈveɪn/ (Show IPA), 1786–1853, vice president of the U.S. 1853.
21. one of the 12 paladins of Charlemagne. Compare Roland.
22. Joseph ("King") 1885?–1938, U.S. cornet player, bandleader, and composer: pioneer in jazz.
23. a male given name.

adjective

1. Informal. king-size.
2. (of cooked fowl, fish, etc.) diced and served in a cream sauce containing mushrooms, pimiento, or green pepper:

Verb phrases

1. king it, to play the king; behave in an imperious or pretentious manner:

verb (used with object)

1. to make a king of; cause to be or become a king; crown.
2. Informal. to design or make (a product) king-size:

verb (used without object)

1. to reign as king.

Origin of King

before 900; Middle English; Old English cyng, cyni(n)g; cognate with German König, Dutch koning, Old Norse konungr, Swedish konung, Danish konge. See kin, Examples for King

It does not matter whether we recognize a king or an emperor or a president as our ruler.

They called him a king or a prince and obeyed his orders for their own common benefit.

The king of course could not allow one of his subjects to outdo him in such a matter.

We tend to think not, but the rise of king, Kennedy, and Lincoln was unlikely, too.

The greater part of these taxes, however, do not belong to the king personally.

As played by Omundson, king Richard is effeminate, sincere, and ten times funnier than everyone else.

The bye bye is being sung, incidentally, by mothers to their babies condemned to death by king Herod.

king Henry often looked in on these matches, and did honour to the winners.

king agreed to this arrangement but did not reveal it to his followers.

And now Reggaeton is king in Cuba as it is in most of the Caribbean.