Definition of king in English

WordNet

Noun Plural: kings
king - a male sovereign; ruler of a kingdom
		male monarch, Rex
		female monarch, queen regnant, queen the only fertile female in a colony of social insects such as bees and ants and termites; its function is to lay eggs
		crowned head, sovereign, monarch a nation's ruler or head of state usually by hereditary right
		royal family, royal house, royal line, royalty royal persons collectively; "the wedding was attended by royalty"
		king of england, king of great britain the sovereign ruler of England
		king of france the sovereign ruler of France
		king of the germans the sovereign ruler of the Germans
king - (chess) the weakest but the most important piece
		chess piece, chessman any of 16 white and 16 black pieces used in playing the game of chess
king - 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
		chequer, checker one of the flat round pieces used in playing the game of checkers
king - United States charismatic civil rights leader and Baptist minister who campaigned against the segregation of Blacks (1929-1968)
		Martin Luther King, Martin Luther King Jr.
king - United States guitar player and singer of the blues (born in 1925)
		B. B. King, Riley B King
king - one of the four playing cards in a deck bearing the picture of a king
king - a competitor who holds a preeminent position
		queen, world-beater
king - United States woman tennis player (born in 1943)
		Billie Jean King, Billie Jean Moffitt King
king - preeminence in a particular category or group or field; "the lion is the king of beasts"
king - a very wealthy or powerful businessman; "an oil baron"
		baron, big businessman, business leader, magnate, mogul, power, top executive, tycoon
		businessman, man of affairs a person engaged in commercial or industrial business (especially an owner or executive)

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Wiktionary

king (Noun)
A male monarch; a man who heads a monarchy. If it's an absolute monarchy , then he is the supreme ruler of his nation.
king (Noun)
A powerful or influential person.
king (Noun)
Something that has a preeminent position.
king (Noun)
A component of certain games.
king (Noun)
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.
king (Noun)
A playing card with the image of a king on it.
king (Noun)
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.
king (Noun)
A king skin .
king (Verb)
To crown king, to make a person king.
king (Verb)
To rule over as king.
king (Verb)
To perform the duties of a king.
king (Verb)
To assume or pretend preeminence over; to lord it over .
king (Verb)
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.
king (Verb)
To dress and perform as a drag king .

Webster DictionaryWebster's Unabridged Dictionary 📘

king (n.)
A Chinese musical instrument, consisting of resonant stones or metal plates, arranged according to their tones in a frame of wood, and struck with a hammer.
king (n.)
A chief ruler; a sovereign; one invested with supreme authority over a nation, country, or tribe, usually by hereditary succession; a monarch; a prince.
king (n.)
One who, or that which, holds a supreme position or rank; a chief among competitors; as, a railroad king; a money king; the king of the lobby; the king of beasts.
king (n.)
A playing card having the picture of a king; as, the king of diamonds.
king (n.)
The chief piece in the game of chess.
king (n.)
A crowned man in the game of draughts.
king (n.)
The title of two historical books in the Old Testament.
king (v. i.)
To supply with a king; to make a king of; to raise to royalty.

OmegaWiki DictionaryOmegaWiki Dictionary Ω

king
A male member of a Royal Family and supreme ruler of his nation.
king
The principal playing piece in chess, which moves only one square per move (except in castling) and in all eight directions. When one's king is in "checkmate", the game is won by the opposing player.
king
A playing card with a picture of a king on its face; the 13th card in a given suit.

Chambers DictionaryChamber's 20th Century Dictionary 📕

king
king, n. the chief ruler of a nation: a monarch: a playing-card having the picture of a king: the most important piece in chess: a crowned man in draughts: one who is pre-eminent among his fellows:—fem. Queen.—v.t. to play king.—ns. King′-at-arms, or King′-of-arms, a chief officer of the Heralds' Colleges, whose designations are, for England, Norroy, Clarencieux, and Garter; for Scotland, Lyon; and for Ireland, Ulster; King′-bird, an American tyrant fly-catcher; King′crab, the chief or largest of the crab genus, most common in the Molucca Islands; King′craft, the art of governing, mostly in a bad sense; King′cup, the buttercup or upright meadow crowfoot; King′dom, the state or attributes of a king: the territory of a king: government: a region: one of the three grand divisions of Natural History, as the animal, vegetable, or mineral.—adj. King′domed (Shak.), endowed with kingly power, proud.—ns. King′fisher, a bird with very brilliant plumage, feeding on fish, the halcyon; King′hood, kingship: kingliness.—adj. King′less.—ns. King′let, King′ling, a little or petty king: the golden-crested wren.—ns. King′lihood, King′liness.—adj. King′-like.—adj. King′ly, belonging or suitable to a king: royal: noble—also adv.—ns. King′-mak′er, one who has the creating of kings in his power; King′post, a perpendicular beam in the frame of a roof rising from the tie-beam to the ridge; King's′-cush′ion, a seat formed by two people's hands; King's′-ē′vil, a scrofulous disease or evil formerly supposed to be healed by the touch of the king; King′ship, the state, office, or dignity of a king; King's′-hood, the second stomach of a ruminant, sometimes humorously for the human stomach; King's′-spear, a plant of the genus Asphodel; King's′-yell′ow, arsenic trisulphide or orpiment; King′-vul′ture, a large tropical brilliantly-coloured American vulture; King′wood, a beautiful Brazilian wood—also Violet-wood.—King Charles spaniel (see Spaniel); King Log, a do-nothing king, as opp. to King Stork, one who devours his frog-subjects—from Æsop's fable; King Mob, the vulgar multitude; King of beasts, the lion; King of metals, gold; King of terrors, death; King of the forest, the oak; King's Bench, the bench or seat of the king: one of the high courts of law, so called because the king used to sit there, called Queen's Bench during a queen's reign; King's counsel an honorary rank of barristers; King's evidence, a criminal allowed to become a witness against an accomplice.—Kingdom come (slang), the state after death.—Three kings of Cologne, the three Wise Men of the East, Gaspar, Melchior, and Balthazar. [A.S. cyning—cyn, a tribe, with suffix -kin; cog. with kin.]

Wikipedia

A king is a male who rules a country because of inheritance. A king usually comes to power when one of his parents dies. For much of history most countries were governed in this way, especially in Europe. In some countries people elected a new king from candidates.

The wife of a king is called a queen. A woman who becomes a monarch because of inheritance is also called a queen.

If a country has a king or a queen, that means it is a monarchy. A country which a king or queen rules is called a kingdom.

See also emperor and prince.
chess
The king is a chess piece in the game of chess. It can move left, right, up, down or diagonally. It can only move one square at a time.