King

Noun

 * 1) a male monarch; member of a royal family who is the supreme ruler of his nation
 * Henry VIII was the king of England from 1509 to 1547.
 * 1) a powerful or influential person
 * Howard Stern styled himself as the "king of all media".
 * 1)  the principal playing piece in chess or variations of chess
 * 2) a playing card with the image of a king on it

Coordinate terms

 * emperor, empress, maharajah, prince, princess, queen, regent, royalty, viceroy
 * ace, jack, joker, queen

Derived terms

 * King Billy
 * king cake
 * king of the hill


 * kingdom
 * kingly
 * kingmaker


 * kingmanship
 * King's English
 * Kingston

Verb

 * 1)  In checkers: to stack a checker on an opponent's piece that has successfully traversed the board to the opposite side. The piece so marked can then move forwards or backwards.

Adjectives for King
maleficent; deposed; uncrowned; shameful; tributary; wily; grisly; besieging; cautious; guarded; crafty; lofty; apostate; bereaved; loving; nominal; bonanza; well-intentioned; penitent; harlot; veritable; anointed; uxorious; lawful; captive; prostrate; rightful; boastful; mythological; guileless; pious; colorless; blameless; lottery; faithless; untamed; sanguine; unwholesome; resplendent; fangless; landless; provincial; incredulous; fratricidal; licentious; dissimulating.

Verbs for King
acknowledge—; anoint—; consort with—s; crown—; dethrone—; exile—; forsake—; guard—; honor— oraise—;  respect—;serve—; —abdicates; —administers; — awes; —commands; —governs; —reigns ;— rules; —surveys.

Thesaurus
Muslim rulers, Prinz, ace, anointed king, atheling, banker, baron, best bower, big boss, big businessman, bishop, bower, business leader, businessman, captain of industry, cards, castle, chessman, chief, chieftain, clubs, crown prince, crowned head, czar, deck, deuce, diamonds, director, dummy, dynast, electronics king, emir, emperor, enterpriser, entrepreneur, face cards, financier, flush, full house, grand duke, hand, hearts, heir apparent, heir presumptive, high chief, honcho, imperator, industrialist, jack, joker, khan, king-emperor, kinglet, knave, knez, knight, lead, leading light, left bower, little businessman, lord paramount, luminary, magnate, majesty, man, man of commerce, manager, master spirit, merchant prince, mirza, mogul, monarch, overlord, pack, pair, paramount, pawn, petty king, picture cards, piece, playing cards, potentate, prima donna, prince, prince consort, prince regent, princeling, princes of India, principal, queen, regent, rook, round, royal, royal flush, royal personage, royalty, rubber, ruff, ruler, shahzada, sheikh, sherif, singleton, sovereign, spades, star, straight, superstar, suzerain, tetrarch, top dog, top executive, trey, trick, trump, tycoon

Etymology
From cyning:, from. Cognate with Dutch koning, German König, Swedish kung/konung.

Noun

 * Afrikaans:
 * Akkadian:
 * Albanian:
 * Ancient Greek: ,
 * Arabic: ملك
 * Aramaic:
 * Syriac: ܡܠܟܐ
 * Hebrew: מלכא
 * Armenian: ,
 * Old Armenian: ,
 * Aymara: malku
 * Basque: errege
 * Bavarian:
 * Bengali: রাজা
 * Breton: roue
 * Bulgarian: цар
 * Catalan: rei
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: 國王, 国王, 王
 * Czech:
 * Danish:
 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto:
 * Estonian:
 * Ewe: fiaŋutsu
 * Faroese: kongur
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * Georgian:
 * German:
 * Greek:
 * Hawaiian: aliʻi, mōʻī
 * Hebrew:
 * Hindi: राजा
 * Hittite:
 * Hungarian:
 * Icelandic: ,
 * Ido:
 * Ilocano: ari
 * Indonesian:
 * Irish:
 * Italian:
 * Japanese: 国王, 王様, 王
 * Javanese: prabu
 * Kazakh:
 * Korean: 임금, 왕 (王)
 * Kurdish:, , , , , ,
 * Kölsch:


 * Latgalian: ,
 * Latin:
 * Latvian:
 * Lithuanian:
 * Lower Sorbian: ,
 * Luxembourgish: Kinnek
 * Macedonian:
 * Malay: ,
 * Malayalam: രാജാവ്
 * Maltese:
 * Northern Sami: gonagas
 * Norwegian: ;
 * Old English: ,
 * Old French: ,
 * Old High German:
 * Old Norse:
 * Old Provençal:
 * Persian:, پادشاه
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian:
 * Russian: ,
 * Sanskrit: राजा, केसरी
 * Scottish Gaelic: rìgh
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: краљ
 * Roman: kralj
 * Sinhalese: රජ
 * Slovak:
 * Slovene:
 * Sotho:
 * Spanish:
 * Sumerian:
 * Swahili:
 * Swedish: kung (archaic konung)
 * Tagalog: hari
 * Taos: taláyna
 * Telugu: రాజు
 * Thai: ราชา,
 * Transalpine Gaulish: rix
 * Turkish:
 * Urdu: راجا, بادشاہ
 * Vietnamese: (王),   (國王)
 * Volapük: reg,  hireg
 * Welsh:
 * West Frisian: kening
 * Yiddish: קיניג
 * Yup'ik:
 * Yiddish: קיניג
 * Yup'ik:


 * Hawaiian: aliʻi
 * Korean: 왕
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: краљ
 * Roman: kralj


 * Swahili:


 * Translingual: ,
 * Armenian:
 * Basque: errege
 * Breton: roue
 * Bulgarian: цар
 * Catalan: rei
 * Czech:
 * Danish:
 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto:
 * Estonian:
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * German:
 * Greek:
 * Hebrew:
 * Hungarian:
 * Icelandic:
 * Indonesian: raja
 * Irish:
 * Italian:
 * Japanese:
 * Korean: ko


 * Kurdish:
 * Latvian:
 * Macedonian:
 * Malayalam: രാജാവ്
 * Maltese:
 * Norwegian:
 * Persian:
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian:
 * Russian:
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: краљ
 * Roman: kralj
 * Slovak:
 * Slovene:
 * Spanish:
 * Swahili:
 * Swedish:
 * Telugu: రాజు
 * Turkish:
 * Vietnamese:
 * Welsh:


 * Armenian: ,
 * Basque: errege
 * Breton: roue
 * Catalan: rei
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:, ,
 * Czech:
 * Danish:
 * Dutch: ,
 * Esperanto:
 * Estonian:
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * German:
 * Greek:
 * Hebrew:
 * Hungarian:
 * Icelandic:
 * Irish:
 * Italian:
 * Japanese:


 * Korean: 킹
 * Kurdish:
 * Macedonian: ,
 * Malayalam: രാജാവ്
 * Maltese:
 * Norwegian:
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian: popă
 * Russian:
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: краљ
 * Roman: kralj
 * Slovak:
 * Slovene:
 * Spanish:
 * Swahili:
 * Swedish:
 * Telugu: రాజు
 * Turkish:


 * : rei
 * : Konning
 * : raja
 * : rege
 * : ರಾಜ (raaja), ದೇವ (deeva)


 * : (wang)
 * : хан (khan)
 * : rego
 * : (šāh),  (pādešāh)
 * : reg, hireg
 * : brenin

Verb

 * Catalan: coronar
 * Italian: fare dama


 * Spanish:

Anagrams

 * gink

Noun

 * 1) shoe

Etymology
From ceinn:, cinn: genitive singular and nominative plural, respectively, of cenn:.

Noun

 * 1) king