king

Language: EN · Kind: word · Transcription: [/ˈkɪŋ/]

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1. king (noun) — sense 1

Definition: A male monarch; a man who heads a monarchy; in an absolute monarchy, the supreme ruler of his nation.

Example: Henry VIII was the king of England from 1509 to 1547.

2. king (noun) — sense 2

Definition: A male monarch; a man who heads a monarchy; in an absolute monarchy, the supreme ruler of his nation.: The monarch with the most power and authority in a monarchy, regardless of sex.

Example: 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.

3. king (noun) — sense 3

Definition: A male monarch; a man who heads a monarchy; in an absolute monarchy, the supreme ruler of his nation.: A male leader of a traditional Aboriginal group, often used as a title by colonists.

Example: Old Culwaddy the ‘king’, squatting by the galley fire, looked up questioningly[.]

4. king (verb) — sense 4

Definition: To crown king, to make (a person) king.

Example: One narrative is the kinging and unkinging of Macbeth; the other narrative is the attack on Banquo's line and that line's eventual accession and supposed Jacobean survival through Malcolm's successful counter-attack on Macbeth.

5. king (verb) — sense 5

Definition: To rule over as king.

Example: And let us do it with no show of fear; / No, with no more than if we heard that England / Were busied with a Whitsun morris-dance; / For, my good liege, she is so idly king’d, / Her sceptre so fantastically borne / By a vain, giddy, shallow, humorous youth, / That fear attends her not.

6. king (verb) — sense 6

Definition: To perform the duties of a king.

Example: Second, Mentor (the old man) combined the wisdom of experience with the sensitivity of a fawn in his attempts to convey kinging skills to young Telemachus.

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