[king] 
| 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. | Chess. the chief piece of each color, whose checkmating is the object of the game; moved one square at a time in any direction. |
| 6. | Checkers. a piece that has been moved entirely across the board and has been crowned, thus allowing it to be moved in any direction. |
| 7. | Entomology. a fertile male termite. |
| 8. | a word formerly used in communications to represent the letter K. |
| 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. |
| 11. | to reign as king. |
| 12. | 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. |
[king] | 1. | Billie Jean (Mof⋅fitt) [mof-it] , born 1943, U.S. tennis player. |
| 2. | Clarence, 1842–1901, U.S. geologist and cartographer. |
| 3. | Co⋅ret⋅ta Scott [kaw-ret-uh] , 1927–2006, U.S. civil rights leader (widow of Martin Luther King, Jr.) |
| 4. | Ernest Joseph, 1878–1956, U.S. naval officer. |
| 5. | Martin Luther, Jr., 1929–68, U.S. Baptist minister: civil-rights leader; Nobel peace prize 1964. |
| 6. | Maxine (“Micki”), born 1944, U.S. springboard diver. |
| 7. | Richard, 1825–85, U.S. rancher and steamboat operator. |
| 8. | Riley B. (“B.B.”), born 1925, U.S. blues singer and guitarist. |
| 9. | Rufus, 1755–1827, U.S. political leader and statesman. |
| 10. | Stephen, born 1947, U.S. novelist and short-story writer. |
| 11. | William Lyon Mackenzie, 1874–1950, Canadian statesman: prime minister 1921–26, 1926–30, 1935–48. |
| 12. | William Rufus De⋅Vane [duh-veyn] , 1786–1853, vice president of the U.S. 1853. |
[ol-uh-ver] | 1. | one of the 12 paladins of Charlemagne. Compare Roland. |
| 2. | Joseph (“King”), 1885?–1938, U.S. cornet player, bandleader, and composer: pioneer in jazz. |
| 3. | a male given name. |
| king (kĭng) n.
tr.v. kinged, king·ing, kings Games To make (a piece in checkers) into a king; crown. [Middle English, from Old English cyning; see genə- in Indo-European roots.] |
| King, Billie Jean Moffitt Born 1943. American tennis player who won 20 titles at Wimbledon (6 singles, 10 women's doubles, and 4 mixed doubles) and 4 U.S. Open championships (1967, 1971, 1972, and 1974). |
| King, Coretta Scott 1927-2006. American civil rights leader noted for her work on behalf of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference and the Martin Luther King, Jr., Memorial Foundation after the assassination of her husband, Martin Luther King, Jr. (1968). |
| King, Martin Luther, Jr. 1929-1968. American cleric whose eloquence and commitment to nonviolent tactics formed the foundation of the civil rights movement of the 1950s and 1960s. Among the many peaceful demonstrations he led was the 1963 March on Washington, at which he delivered his "I have a dream" speech. He won the 1964 Nobel Peace Prize, four years before he was assassinated in Memphis, Tennessee. |
| King, Maxine Known as "Micki." Born 1944. American diver who dominated women's diving in the 1960s. She was injured while competing in the 1968 Olympics but won one Olympic gold medal in 1972. |
| King, Richard 1825-1885. American steamboat captain and rancher whose 600,000-acre ranch in Texas was the largest in the United States. |
| King, Rufus 1755-1827. American politician and diplomat. A member of the Continental Congress (1784-1787) and the Constitutional Convention (1787), he served as ambassador to Great Britain (1796-1803 and 1825-1826). |
| King, William Lyon Mackenzie 1874-1950. Canadian politician who three times served as prime minister (1921-1926, 1926-1930, and 1935-1948). |
"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.
King
is in Scripture very generally used to denote one invested with authority, whether extensive or limited. There were thirty-one kings in Canaan (Josh. 12:9, 24), whom Joshua subdued. Adonibezek subdued seventy kings (Judg. 1:7). In the New Testament the Roman emperor is spoken of as a king (1 Pet. 2:13, 17); and Herod Antipas, who was only a tetrarch, is also called a king (Matt. 14:9; Mark 6:22). This title is applied to God (1 Tim. 1:17), and to Christ, the Son of God (1 Tim. 6:15, 16; Matt. 27:11). The people of God are also called "kings" (Dan. 7:22, 27; Matt. 19:28; Rev. 1:6, etc.). Death is called the "king of terrors" (Job 18:14). Jehovah was the sole King of the Jewish nation (1 Sam. 8:7; Isa. 33:22). But there came a time in the history of that people when a king was demanded, that they might be like other nations (1 Sam. 8:5). The prophet Samuel remonstrated with them, but the people cried out, "Nay, but we will have a king over us." The misconduct of Samuel's sons was the immediate cause of this demand. The Hebrew kings did not rule in their own right, nor in name of the people who had chosen them, but partly as servants and partly as representatives of Jehovah, the true King of Israel (1 Sam. 10:1). The limits of the king's power were prescribed (1 Sam. 10:25). The officers of his court were, (1) the recorder or remembrancer (2 Sam. 8:16; 1 Kings 4:3); (2) the scribe (2 Sam. 8:17; 20:25); (3) the officer over the house, the chief steward (Isa. 22:15); (4) the "king's friend," a confidential companion (1 Kings 4:5); (5) the keeper of the wardrobe (2 Kings 22:14); (6) captain of the bodyguard (2 Sam. 20:23); (7) officers over the king's treasures, etc. (1 Chr. 27:25-31); (8) commander-in-chief of the army (1 Chr. 27:34); (9) the royal counsellor (1 Chr. 27:32; 2 Sam. 16:20-23). (For catalogue of kings of Israel and Judah see chronological table in Appendix.)