Meaning of king | Babel Free

Definitions

1. queen
2. radiotelephony clear-code word for the letter K.
3. 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.
   countable, uncountable
4. A male monarch; a man who heads a monarchy; in an absolute monarchy, the supreme ruler of his nation.
5. To make (a piece in checkers) into a king; crown.
6. The title of a king.
7. King class, a class of steam locomotives once used on the GWR.
   UK, countable, uncountable
8. The monarch with the most power and authority in a monarchy, regardless of sex.
9. of, relating to, or suitable for a king. kingly robes; a kingly feast. koninklik مُلوكي величествен régio královský königlich kongelig βασιλικόςreal kuninglik شاهانه kuninkaallinen royal מַלכוּתִי राजोचित, शाहाना, राजोचित रूप से kraljevski királyi mewah konunglegur reale, regale 王の 왕의 karaliaus, karališkas karaļa-; karalisks sifat raja koninklijk kongeligkrólewski شاهى څيره،په شاهانو اړين régio regal королевский kráľovský kraljevski kraljevski kunglig ที่เกี่ยวกับกษัตริย์ krala lâyık/ait 國王的，...
10. A number of places in the United States:
    countable, uncountable
11. An unincorporated community in Gibson County, Indiana.
    countable, uncountable
12. A powerful or majorly influential person; someone who holds the preeminent position.
13. koninklikheid ملوكيَّه царственост realeza majestátnost königliches Wesen kongelighed μεγαλοπρέπειαrealeza kuninglikkus ابهت؛ مقام شاهانه kuninkaallisuus noblesse מַלכוּתִיוּת राजगौरव, बादशाही, शान kraljevanje királyi magatartás kemuliaan konunglegheit regalità 王らしさ 위풍당당함 karaliðkumas karaliskums lagak, gaya seperti raja gedrag dat een koning betaamt kongelighetkrólewskość شاهى مقام او څوكى realeza măreţie, ţinută maies­tuoasă величественность majestát veličanstvo kraljevstvo kunglighet การเป...
14. A city in Stokes County and Forsyth County, North Carolina.
    countable, uncountable
15. Something that has a preeminent position.
    countable, uncountable
16. a type of bird with brilliant blue feathers which feeds on fish. visvanger طائِر الرفْراف рибарче martim-pescador ledňáček der Eisvogel isfugl αλκυόναmartín pescador jäälind مرغ ماهی خوار kuningaskalastaja martin-pêcheurשלדג किलकिला vodomar jégmadár burung paruh udang bláþyrill, ísfugl, kóngsfiskari martin pescatore かわせみ 물총새류의 새 tulžys zivju dzenis burung raja udang ijsvogel isfuglzimorodek يو ډول مرغه چى كبان خورى tipo de pássaro pescăruş albastru зимородок rybárik vodomec vodomar kungsfiska...
17. third-person singular present indicative
18. A neighbourhood in north-east Portland, Oregon.
    countable, uncountable
19. A component of certain games.
20. The principal chess piece, that players seek to threaten with unavoidable capture to result in a victory by checkmate. It is often the tallest piece, with a symbolic crown with a cross at the top.
21. of a large size; larger than normal. a king-size(d) bed; king-size cigarettes. koningsformaat, ekstra grootte حَجْم كبير много голям/дълъг gigante obří, prodloužený überdurchschnittlich groß kingsize; ekstra stor μεγάλου μεγέθους, κιγκ σάιζ tamaño gigante, tamaño familiar suur بزرگتر از معمول suurikokoinen de grand format, extra-long גָדוֹל מְאוֹד विशाल veći od uobičajenog extra méretű berukuran besar óvenjustór grande 特大の 특대의 didžiulis ļoti liela izmēra saiz besar extra groot ekstra stor/lan...
22. An unincorporated community in Clay County, West Virginia.
    countable, uncountable
23. A playing card with the letter "K" and the image of a king on it, the thirteenth card in a given suit.
24. A checker (a piece of checkers/draughts) that reached the farthest row forward, thus becoming crowned (either by turning it upside-down, or by stacking another checker on it) and gaining more freedom of movement.
25. A male sovereign.
26. An unincorporated community in Wetzel County, West Virginia.
    countable, uncountable
27. The central pin or skittle in bowling games.
28. One that is supreme or preeminent in a particular group, category, or sphere: "In many countries, soccer is the king of sports" (Cameron W. Barr).
29. A town in Lincoln County, Wisconsin.
    countable, uncountable
30. A king skin.
    UK, slang
31. Games a. Abbr. K A playing card bearing the figure of a king, ranking above a queen.
    Games
32. A census-designated place in Farmington, Waupaca County, Wisconsin.
    countable, uncountable
33. A male dragonfly; a drake.
34. Kings(used with a sing. verb) See Table at Bible.
35. A township in the Regional Municipality of York, Ontario, Canada.
    countable, uncountable
36. A king-sized bed.
37. A king-size bed.
38. A village on New Ireland, Papua New Guinea.
    countable, uncountable
39. A vertex in a directed graph which can reach every other vertex via a path with a length of at most 2.

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Examples

“Henry VIII was the king of England from 1509 to 1547.”

“Charles the third became the new king of England from 2022.”

“The British Parliament has had made it for it in the past the claim that it could do anything excepting convert a woman into a man.[…]And the high court [of Amsterdam] has done it by deciding that all officials and public servants shall take their oath of allegiance not to Queen Wilhelmina but to King Wilhelmina.”

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

“The act of perforating one’s ears could be read as a gendering performance—a modification from an overt masculinity (king) to a tempered female masculinity (king with female traits)—in which the male king was expected to adopt the quintessence of Omeppa’s female king wife, Ebulejonu, and by so doing, embody the true essence of womanhood.[…]Attah-Ebulejonu, like Hatshepsut of Egypt before her, ruled as (and was remembered as) a king, not queen, perhaps setting the precedent for the coronation of another female king, Ahebi Ugbabe, about four centuries later.[…]This time, the female king would not rule in the Igala kingdom nor would she be of Igala origin. Instead, the king would be an Igbo woman who had lived in Igalaland for many years, who had come of age and matured there and in the process had imbibed the cultural values and mores of the people with whom she had lived in exile.”

“Howard Stern styled himself as the "king of all media".”

“"I wish we were back in Tenth Street. But so many children came[…]and the Tenth Street house wasn't half big enough; and a dreadful speculative builder built this house and persuaded Austin to buy it. Oh, dear, and here we are among the rich and great; and the steel kings and copper kings and oil kings and their heirs and dauphins.[…]"”

“I'd been the dodgem car king at the Brisbane Ekka in 1975 and all those skills can flooding back[.]”

“The truth is that [Isaac] Newton was very much a product of his time. The colossus of science was not the first king of reason, Keynes wrote after reading Newton’s unpublished manuscripts. Instead “he was the last of the magicians”.”

“In times of financial panic, cash is king.”

“It would be difficult, for example, to imagine a bigger, more obvious subject for comedy than the laughable self-delusion of washed-up celebrities, especially if the washed-up celebrity in question is Adam West, a camp icon who can go toe to toe with William Shatner as the king of winking self-parody.”

“The objective of each player is to place the opponent’s king ‘under attack’ in such a way that the opponent has no legal move. […] If the arbiter observes both kings are in check, or a pawn stands on the rank furthest from its starting position, he/she shall wait until the next move is completed.”

“In knockemdowns and bowls ten pins are used, the centre one being called the king, and the ball has to be grounded before it reaches the frame.”

“Oi mate, have you got kings?”

“Try asking for a king-size bed next time because kings are usually firmer.”

“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.”

“The Russians clinched the victory when Vera Zvonareva rallied to defeat Vania King, 4-6, 6-3, 6-2, in the first reverse singles match, giving her team a 3-0 lead. […] After Russia went ahead, 3-0, Ahsha Rolle defeated Elena Vesnina, 6-3, 6-4, then King paired with Liezel Huber to beat Vesnina and Svetlana Kuznetsova, 7-6 (3), 6-4, in the doubles.”

“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.””

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