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King

noun

1.

A male sovereign; ruler of a kingdom. Synonyms: male monarch, Rex. Antonyms: female monarch, queen.

2.

A competitor who holds a preeminent position. Synonyms: queen, world-beater.

3.

A very wealthy or powerful businessman. Synonyms: baron, big businessman, business leader, magnate, mogul, power, top executive, tycoon.

4.

Preeminence in a particular category or group or field.

5.

United States woman tennis player (born in 1943). Synonyms: Billie Jean King, Billie Jean Moffitt King.

6.

United States guitar player and singer of the blues (born in 1925). Synonyms: B. B. King, Riley B King.

7.

United States charismatic civil rights leader and Baptist minister who campaigned against the segregation of Blacks (1929-1968). Synonyms: Martin Luther King, Martin Luther King Jr..

8.

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.

9.

One of the four playing cards in a deck bearing the picture of a king.

10.

(chess) the weakest but the most important piece.

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"King" Quotes from Famous Books

... several quaint old legends connected with some of their birds. This is the story of the gold-crest, known in Norway as the "bird king": ...

— Peeps at Many Lands: Norway • A.F. Mockler-Ferryman

... equally true in those higher grades of society where instincts are less passionate. Just as the man who kills his king or his father holds himself absolutely innocent of any wrong intent, so the unhappy parasite who steals his wife's earnings for drink, or the bookkeeper who makes away with the contents of the firm's cash drawer in order to play the races, believes himself to be unfortunate ...

— White Ashes • Sidney R. Kennedy and Alden C. Noble

... bits. With that knife you could open the stone walls of any house, even twice as strong as Guy Rivers's. And there's a handkerchief for your neck, Chub—Guy'll have to wear one of rope, my lad: and look at the suspenders, Chub—fit for the king; and—" ...

— Guy Rivers: A Tale of Georgia • William Gilmore Simms

... outburst of fire, he was actually missed. One bullet, however, passed through the case of hardtack just before he disappeared with it into the trench. A trooper named Shanafelt repeated the feat, later, with a pail of coffee. Another trooper, George King, spent a leisure hour in the rear making soup out of some rice and other stuff he found in a Spanish house; he brought some of it to General Wood, Jack Greenway, and myself, and nothing ...

— Rough Riders • Theodore Roosevelt

... address him?" I went on. "Does one call him 'your Grace,' or 'your Royal Highness'? Oh for a thousandth-part of the unblushing impertinence of that countrywoman of mine who called your future king 'Tummy'! but she was a beauty, and I am not pretty enough to be anything but discreetly well-mannered. Shall you sit in his presence, or stand and grovel alternately? Does one have to curtsy? Very well, ...

— Penelope's English Experiences • Kate Douglas Wiggin

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