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▸ noun: The monarch with the most power and authority in a monarchy, regardless of sex.
▸ noun: A powerful or majorly influential person.
▸ noun: (countable or uncountable) Something that has a preeminent position.
▸ noun: A component of certain games.
▸ noun: (chess) 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.
▸ noun: (card games) A playing card with the letter "K" and the image of a king on it, the thirteenth card in a given suit.
▸ 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.
▸ noun: The central pin or skittle in bowling games.
▸ noun: (UK, slang) A king skin.
▸ noun: A male dragonfly; a drake.
▸ noun: A king-sized bed.
▸ noun: (graph theory) A vertex in a directed graph which can reach every other vertex via a path with a length of at most 2.
▸ verb: To crown king, to make (a person) king.
▸ verb: To rule over as king.
▸ verb: To perform the duties of a king.
▸ verb: To assume or pretend preeminence (over); to lord it over.
▸ 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.
▸ verb: To dress and perform as a drag king.
▸ noun: (World War II era, joint US/RAF) radiotelephony clear-code word for the letter K.
▸ noun: The title of a king.
▸ noun: An English and Scottish surname transferred from the nickname, originally a nickname for someone who either acted as if he were a king or had worked in the king's household.
▸ noun: (UK, rail transport) King class, a class of steam locomotives once used on the GWR.
▸ noun: A number of places in the United States:
▸ noun: An unincorporated community in Gibson County, Indiana.
▸ noun: A city in Stokes County and Forsyth County, North Carolina.
▸ noun: A neighbourhood in north-east Portland, Oregon.
▸ noun: An unincorporated community in Clay County, West Virginia.
▸ noun: An unincorporated community in Wetzel County, West Virginia.
▸ noun: A town in Lincoln County, Wisconsin.
▸ noun: A census-designated place in Farmington, Waupaca County, Wisconsin.
▸ noun: A township in the Regional Municipality of York, Ontario, Canada.
▸ noun: A village on New Ireland, Papua New Guinea.
▸ noun: Alternative form of qing (“Chinese musical instrument”) [A sounding stone, a Chinese musical instrument.]
Similar:
tycoon,
baron,
magnate,
world-beater,
power,
Mogul,
big businessman,
business leader,
male monarch,
Martin Luther King,
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kingdom,
kingfisher,
king cobra,
king crab,
king penguin,
king salmon,
king snake,
king vulture,
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