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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

... class who can't ask, and who suffer in silence. I know something of it, for I belonged to it before you made a princess of me, as the king does the beggarmaid in the old story. Ambitious girls have a hard time, Laurie, and often have to see youth, health, and precious opportunities go by, just for want of a little help at the right minute. People have been very kind to me, and ...

— Little Women • Louisa May Alcott

... been issued (in His Majesty's High Court of King's Bench at Westminster), in another cause of HEEP V. MICAWBER, and the defendant in that cause is the prey of the sheriff having legal jurisdiction in ...

— David Copperfield • Charles Dickens

... To read Ruskin you would think he was fulminating urbi et orbi with the Summa or Cur Deus homo at his fingers' ends. Depend upon it he was doing quite other, or the artistic temper (phrase rendered loathsome by the halfpenny newspapers) suffered a relapse between the days of King David and the days of his brother Lippo Lippi. Are we to suppose that a man who could live in intimate commerce with fourteen such gracious ladies as he has set there, ranged on their carved sedilia—his Britomart trim and debonnair; his willowy Carita; ...

— Earthwork Out Of Tuscany • Maurice Hewlett

... Christianity in the St. Lawrence valley. The devotion of the Recollets, to the family of whom belonged these first missionaries of Canada, was but ill-rewarded, for, after the treaty of St. Germain-en-Laye, which restored Canada to France, the king refused them permission to return to a region which they had watered with the sweat of their brows and ...

— The Makers of Canada: Bishop Laval • A. Leblond de Brumath

... nothing without the command of the King; and the King fears to order the army to march without the approval of the gods. The High Priest is against it. The House of Rimmon is for peace ...

— The Poems of Henry Van Dyke • Henry Van Dyke

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