king of beasts

Questions about king of beasts

What does king of beasts mean?

king of beasts means "large gregarious predatory feline of Africa and India having a tawny coat with a shaggy mane in the male".

What is another word for king of beasts?

Close synonyms include lion, Panthera leo. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is king of beasts a common word?

king of beasts is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.