king

Alternative forms

• kyng, kynge (archaic)
• kinge (obsolete)

Pronunciation

• enPR: kĭng, IPA: /kɪŋ/
• (US, pre-/ŋ/ tensing), IPA: /kiŋ/

Noun

king (plural kings)

1. A male monarch; a man who heads a monarchy. If it is an absolute monarchy, then he is the supreme ruler of his nation.
   • Henry VIII was the king of England from 1509 to 1547.
2. A powerful or majorly influential person.
   • Howard Stern styled himself as the "king of all media".
3. (countable or uncountable) Something that has a preeminent position.
   • In times of financial panic, cash is king.
4. A component of certain games.
   1. (chess) The principal chess piece, that players seek to threaten with unavoidable capture to result in a victory by checkmate. It is often the tallest piece, with a symbolic crown with a cross at the top.
   2. (card games) A playing card with the letter "K" and the image of a king on it, the thirteenth card in a given suit.
   3. A checker (a piece of checkers/draughts) that reached the farthest row forward, thus becoming crowned (either by turning it upside-down, or by stacking another checker on it) and gaining more freedom of movement.
   4. The central pin or skittle in bowling games.
5. (UK, slang) A king skin.
   • Oi mate, have you got kings?
6. A male dragonfly; a drake.
7. A king-sized bed.
8. The monarch with the most power and authority in a monarchy, regardless of sex.
9. (graph theory) A vertex in a directed graph which can reach every other vertex via a path with a length of at most 2.

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.
2. To rule over as king.
3. To perform the duties of a king.
4. To assume or pretend preeminence (over); to lord it over.
5. To promote a piece of draughts/checkers that has traversed the board to the opposite side, that piece subsequently being permitted to move backwards as well as forwards.
6. To dress and perform as a drag king.

Noun

king (plural kings)

1. Alternative form of qing (“Chinese musical instrument”)

Anagrams

• gink

Pronunciation

• IPA: /ˈkinɡ̊/, [ˈkiŋɡ̊]

Noun

king (genitive kinga, partitive kinga)

1. shoe

Alternative forms

• keng
• qng, queng, quing (Spanish variant)

Preposition

king

1. indirect object marker; of, to, at, on, in, into, onto, among, around, for

Noun

king m

1. inflection of kione:
   1. genitive singular
   2. nominative plural

Mutation

Alternative forms

• kenin, kening, kinig (in compounds, toponymic)
• gug, kug (in compounds, influenced by Old Norse (see etymology))
• knyng (transmission error)
• chinge, chinȝ, cing, cining, cinȝ, ging, keing, keng, kingk, kingue, kining, kink, kyng, kynge

Pronunciation

• IPA: /kinɡ/, [kiŋɡ]

Noun

king (nominative plural kinges, also the early forms kingas or kingæs)

1. king (monarch)
2. king (chess piece)

Adjective

king

1. (slang) great, awesome
   • Deras sound är king asså

     • Their sound is so awesome
   • Helgen var king

     • The weekend was awesome
   • – Jag lyckades fixa datorn. – King!

     • – I managed to fix the computer. – Awesome!
   • Synonym: kunglig

Noun

king

1. king

Noun

king

1. Alternative form of kinge