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say it: king
king is a noun meaning "a male sovereign; ruler of a kingdom". It carries 10 recorded senses.
a male sovereign; ruler of a kingdom
a competitor who holds a preeminent position
preeminence in a particular category or group or field
“the lion is the king of beasts”
United States woman tennis player (born in 1943)
United States guitar player and singer of the blues (born in 1925)
United States charismatic civil rights leader and Baptist minister who campaigned against the segregation of Blacks (1929-1968)
a checker that has been moved to the opponent's first row where it is promoted to a piece that is free to move either forward or backward
checkers
one of the four playing cards in a deck bearing the picture of a king
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for king come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.