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king

UK/kɪŋ/ US/ˈkʰɪŋ/ very common slang uk

noun

1.

a male sovereign; ruler of a kingdom

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preeminence in a particular category or group or field

  • “the lion is the king of beasts”
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United States guitar player and singer of the blues (born in 1925)

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United States charismatic civil rights leader and Baptist minister who campaigned against the segregation of Blacks (1929-1968)

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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

9.

one of the four playing cards in a deck bearing the picture of a king

10.

(chess) the weakest but the most important piece

Origin

From Middle English king, kyng, kynge, from Old English cening, cing, cining, cuning, cyncg, cyneg, cyng, cyngc, cynig, cyning, king, kining, kuning, kyning, kyningc (“king”), from Proto-West Germanic *kuning, from Proto-Germanic *kuningaz, *kunungaz (“king”), from *kunją (“clan, family, kin”), from Proto-Indo-European *ǵenh₁- (“to produce; to beget”). Equivalent to kin + -ing. Doublet of cyning and knez. Cognates Cognate with Yola king, kinge (“king”), North Frisian kining, köning (“king”), Saterland Frisian Kening, König, Köänig (“king”), West Frisian kening (“king”), Alemannic German Chüng, Künig (“king”), Bavarian Kini (“king”), Central Franconian Künning (“king”), Cimbrian khuuneg (“king”), Dutch koning (“king”), German König (“king”), Luxembourgish Kinnek (“king”), Vilamovian kyng (“king”), Yiddish קעניג (kenig), קיניג (kinig, “king”), Danish kong, konge, konning (“king”), Elfdalian kunungg (“king”), Faroese kongur (“king”), Icelandic kóngur, konungur (“king”), Norwegian Bokmål konge (“king”), Norwegian Nynorsk konge (“king”), Scanian káng (“king”), Swedish konung, kung (“king”), Latgalian and Latvian kungs (“gentlemen”), Lithuanian kunigas (“priest”), Belarusian, Russian,...

Phrases

  • a cat can look at a king
  • a cat may look at a king
  • bare king
  • bean king
  • California king
  • cash is king
  • Charlton Kings
  • chicken à la King

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