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noun (used with a singular verb)
either of two books of the Bible, I Kings or II Kings, which contain the history of the kings of Israel and Judah. Abbreviation: Ki.
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noun
1.
a male sovereign or monarch; a man who holds by life tenure, and usually by hereditary right, the chief authority over a country and people.
2.
(initial capital letter) God or Christ.
3.
a person or thing preeminent in its class: a king of actors.
4.
a playing card bearing a picture of a king.
5.
EXPANDChess. the chief piece of each color, whose checkmating is the object of the game; moved one square at a time in any direction.
verb (used with object)
9.
to make a king of; cause to be or become a king; crown.
10.
Informal. to design or make (a product) king-size: The tobacco company is going to king its cigarettes.
verb (used without object)
11.
to reign as king.
adjective
Verb phrase12.
Informal. king-size.
13.
king it, to play the king; behave in an imperious or pretentious manner: He kinged it over all the other kids on the block.
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Word Origin & History
king
O.E. cyning, from P.Gmc. *kuninggaz (cf. Du. koning, O.H.G. kuning, O.N. konungr, Dan. konge, Ger. könig). Possibly related to O.E. cynn "family, race" (see kin), making a king originally a "leader of the people;" or from a related root suggesting "noble birth," making
EXPAND a king originally "one who descended from noble birth." The sociological and ideological implications make this a topic of much debate. Finnish kuningas "king," O.C.S. kunegu "prince" (Rus. knyaz, Boh. knez), Lith. kunigas "clergyman" are loans from Gmc. In O.E., used for names of chiefs of Anglian and Saxon tribes or clans, then of the states they founded. Also extended to British and Danish chiefs they fought. The chess piece so called from 1411; the playing card from 1563; use in checkers/draughts first recorded 1820. Applied in nature to species deemed remarkably big or dominant (e.g. king crab, 1698),
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"As leon is the king of bestes." [John Gower, "Confessio Amantis," 1390]Kingfisher (1440) was originally king's fisher, for obscure reasons. Kingdom-come "the next world" (1785) is from the Lord's Prayer. The film "King Kong" was released 1933.
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