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Kinghood
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| king (kɪŋ) | |
| —n | |
| 1. | a male sovereign prince who is the official ruler of an independent state; monarchRelated: royal, regal, monarchical |
| 2. | a. a ruler or chief: king of the fairies |
| b. (in combination): the pirate king | |
| 3. | a. a person, animal, or thing considered as the best or most important of its kind |
| b. (as modifier): a king bull | |
| 4. | any of four playing cards in a pack, one for each suit, bearing the picture of a king |
| 5. | check See also checkmate the most important chess piece, although theoretically the weakest, being able to move only one square at a time in any direction |
| 6. | draughts a piece that has moved entirely across the board and has been crowned, after which it may move backwards as well as forwards |
| 7. | king of kings |
| a. God | |
| b. a title of any of various oriental monarchs | |
| —vb | |
| 8. | to make (someone) a king |
| 9. | king it to act in a superior fashion |
| Related: royal, regal, monarchical | |
| [Old English cyning; related to Old High German kunig king, Danish konge] | |
| 'kinghood | |
| —n | |
| 'kingless | |
| —adj | |
| 'kinglike | |
| —adj | |
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