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Meaning of high king | Babel Free

Noun CEFR B2

Definitions

  1. A chief king or ruler; a great, superior, or supreme king; a king of kings.
  2. The king of kings: God; often, Jesus Christ.

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Examples

“[…] is eighth in descent from Aedh Slaine, Highking of Ireland, in the Southern Uí Néill pedigrees.”
“Idris, the first High King, had silvery eyes in a face lined with years of bright laughter and unspeakable sorrow.”
“This time it was Roderic O'Connor, the high-king of all Ireland, with sixty thousand men levied from all the clans of the island. They encamped around Dublin in four separate bodies – the high-king and his men of Connaught at Castle Knock; [...]”
“[…] And health to thee, O high-king, after I am gone, and to all the nobles of the Greeks.”

CEFR level

B2
Upper Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B2 vocabulary — upper intermediate level.
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