king: Meaning and Definition of
king
Pronunciation: (king), [key] — n.
- 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.
- (cap.) God or Christ.
- a person or thing preeminent in its class: a king of actors.
- a playing card bearing a picture of a king.
- the chief piece of each color, whose checkmating is the object of the game; moved one square at a time in any direction.
- a piece that has been moved entirely across the board and has been crowned, thus allowing it to be moved in any direction.
- a fertile male termite.
- a word formerly used in communications to represent the letter K.
—v.t. - to make a king of; cause to be or become a king; crown.
- to design or make (a product) king-size: The tobacco company is going to king its cigarettes.
—v.i. - to reign as king.
- to play the king; behave in an imperious or pretentious manner: He kinged it over all the other kids on the block.
—adj. - king-size.
King
Pronunciation: (king), [key] — n.
- born 1943, U.S. tennis player.
- 1842–1901, U.S. geologist and cartographer.
- 1878–1956, U.S. naval officer.
- 1929–68, U.S. Baptist minister: civil-rights leader; Nobel peace prize 1964.
- 1825–85, U.S. rancher and steamboat operator.
- (“B.B.”), born 1925, U.S. blues singer and guitarist.
- 1755–1827, U.S. political leader and statesman.
- born 1947, U.S. novelist and short-story writer.
- 1874–1950, Canadian statesman: prime minister 1921–26, 1926–30, 1935–48.
- 1786–1853, vice president of the U.S. 1853.
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