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King

noun

1.

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

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

... List came out, he was quite serious and pathetic about it," he said. "Things move either too slowly or too quickly for old people. He does realize that I make quite a good story as I stand, but he wants the finishing touches—the King clasping me by the hand, or kissing me on both cheeks, or whatever he thinks happens on those occasions—and wedding bells ...

— The Dark House • I. A. R. Wylie

... the oracle that they would be successful as long as the Athenian king, Co'drus, was uninjured. The latter, being informed of the answer of the oracle, disguised himself as a peasant, and, going forth from the city, was met and slain by a Dorian soldier, thus sacrificing himself for his country's good. The superstitious ...

— Mosaics of Grecian History • Marcius Willson and Robert Pierpont Willson

... thee betraid, deare Antonie, My life, my soule, my Sunne? I had such thought? That I haue thee betraide my Lord, my King? That I would breake my vowed faith to thee? Leaue thee? deceiue thee? yeelde thee to the rage Of mightie foe? I euer had that hart? Rather sharpe lightning lighten on my head: Rather may I to deepest mischiefe fall: Rather the opened earth deuower me: Rather fierce Tigers feed them on ...

— A Discourse of Life and Death, by Mornay; and Antonius by Garnier • Philippe de Mornay

... first time that I have ever heard those words spoken at Fort o' God. We welcome no man here who has your blood and your civilization in his veins. You are greater than a king!" ...

— Flower of the North • James Oliver Curwood

... the King of all the heaven and the earth at night when the place of all the gods is ...

— The Babylonian Legends of the Creation • British Museum

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