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The white and black kings (chess)

Old English cyning, from Germanic *kuningaz. Cognate with Dutch koning, German König, Swedish konung.

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Singular
king

Plural
kings

king (plural kings)

  1. A male monarch; member of a royal family who is the supreme ruler of his nation.
    Henry VIII was the king of England from 1509 to 1547.
  2. (idiomatic) A powerful or influential person.
    Howard Stern styled himself as the "king of all media".
  3. (chess) The principal playing piece in chess which moves only once square per move (except in castling), but in all eight directions, but cannot move into check (threat of attack).
  4. A playing card with the image of a king on it.

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a male of a royal family who is the supreme ruler of his nation
A powerful or influential person
a playing piece in chess
a playing card with the image of a king in it
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[edit] Verb

Infinitive
to king

Third person singular
kings

Simple past
kinged

Past participle
kinged

Present participle
kinging

to king (third-person singular simple present kings, present participle kinging, simple past and past participle kinged)

  1. (transitive) In checkers: to stack a checker on an opponent's piece that has successfully traversed the board to the opposite side. The piece so marked can then move forwards or backwards.

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king

  1. shoe
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