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king

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English

Wikipedia has an article on: King The white and black kings (chess) A king piece in shogi. Sometimes just 王.

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Etymology

From Old English cyning, from Proto-Germanic *kuningaz. Cognate with Dutch koning, German König, Swedish kung/konung.

Pronunciation

Noun

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. A powerful or influential person
    Howard Stern styled himself as the "king of all media".
  3. Something that has a preeminent position.
    In times of financial panic, cash is king.
  4. (chess) The principal playing piece in chess or variations of chess
  5. A playing card with the image of a king on it.
  6. (draughts, checkers). A man (an uncrowned piece) that reached the farthest row forward.
  7. (UK, slang) A king skin.
    Oi mate, have you got kings?

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Verb

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

  1. To crown king, to make (a person) king.
    • 1982, South Atlantic Modern Language Association, South Atlantic Review, Volume 47, page 16,
      The kinging of Macbeth is the business of the first part of the play […] .
    • 2008, William Shakespeare, A. R. Braunmuller (editor), Macbeth, Introduction, page 24,
      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.
  2. To rule over as king.
    • circa 1599, William Shakespeare, The Life of Henry the Fifth, Act 2, Scene 4,
      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.
  3. To perform the duties of a king.
    • 1918, Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen, The Railroad Trainman, Volume 35, page 675,
      He had to do all his kinging after supper, which left him no time for roystering with the nobility and certain others.
    • 2001, Chip R. Bell, Managers as Mentors: Building Partnerships for Learning, page 6,
      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.
  4. To assume or pretend preeminence (over); to lord it over.
    • 1917, Edna Ferber, Fanny Herself, page 32,
      The seating arrangement of the temple was the Almanach de Gotha of Congregation Emanu-el. Old Ben Reitman, patriarch among the Jewish settlers of Winnebago, who had come over an immigrant youth, and who now owned hundreds of rich farm acres, besides houses, mills and banks, kinged it from the front seat of the center section.
  5. (games, checkers) To promote a piece that has traversed the board to the opposite side, that piece subsequently being permitted to move backwards as well as forwards; to perform the action of stacking a checker on a piece to signal its promotion.
    • 1957, Bertram Vivian Bowden (editor), Faster Than Thought: A Symposium on Digital Computing Machines, page 302,
      If the machine does this, it will lose only one point, and as it is not looking far enough ahead, it cannot see that it has not prevented its opponent from kinging but only postponed the evil day.
    • 1986, Rick DeMarinis, The Burning Women of Far Cry, page 100,
      I was about to make a move that would corner a piece that she was trying to get kinged, but I slid my checker back […] .
  6. To dress and perform as a drag king.
    • 2008, Audrey Yue, King Victoria: Asian Drag Kings, Postcolonial Female Masculinity, and Hybrid Sexuality in Australia, in Fran Martin, Peter Jackson, Audrey Yue, Mark McLelland (editors), AsiaPacifQueer: Rethinking Genders and Sexualities, page 266,
      Through the ex-centric diaspora, kinging in postcolonial Australia has become a site of critical hybridity where diasporic female masculinities have emerged through the contestations of "home" and "host" cultures.

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Estonian

Noun

king

  1. shoe

Manx

Etymology

From Old Irish ceinn, cinn genitive singular and nominative plural, respectively, of cenn (“head”).

Noun

king m.

  1. genitive singular form of kione
  2. Plural form of kione.

Tok Pisin

Noun

king

  1. king

 

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