king
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Old English cyning, from Germanic *kuningaz. Cognate with Dutch koning, German König, Swedish konung.
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king (plural kings)
- 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.
- (idiomatic) A powerful or influential person.
- Howard Stern styled himself as the "king of all media".
- (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).
- 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
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a playing piece in chess
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a playing card with the image of a king in it
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to king (third-person singular simple present kings, present participle kinging, simple past and past participle kinged)
- (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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