king

== English == === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /ˈkɪŋ/, [ˈkʰɪŋ] (pre-/ŋ/-tensing) (Upper Midwestern US, Western US, Canada) IPA(key): /ˈkiŋ/, [ˈkʰiŋ] (without the NG-coalescence) (UK) IPA(key): /ˈkɪŋɡ/, [ˈkʰɪŋɡ] (Appalachia, African-American Vernacular, thank-think merger) (without æ-raising) IPA(key): /ˈkæŋ/, [ˈkʰæŋ] (æ-raising) IPA(key): /ˈkeɪ̯ŋ/, [ˈkʰeɪ̯ŋ]; /ˈkɛ̃ŋ/, [ˈkʰɛ̃ŋ] Rhymes: -ɪŋ Hyphenation: king === Etymology 1 === From Middle English king, kyng, kynge, from Old English cening, cing, cining, cuning, cyncg, cyneg, cyng, cyngc, cynig, cyning, king, kining, kuning, kyning, kyningc (“king”), from Proto-West Germanic *kuning, from Proto-Germanic *kuningaz, *kunungaz (“king”), from *kunją (“clan, family, kin”), from Proto-Indo-European *ǵenh₁- (“to produce; to beget”). Equivalent to kin +‎ -ing. Doublet of cyning and knez. Eclipsed non-native Middle English roy (“king”) (Early Modern English roy), borrowed from Old French rei, roi, roy (“king”). The verb is inherited from Middle English kingen, kyngen (“to perform the duties of a king”), itself from the noun. ==== Alternative forms ==== kinge, kyng, kynge (obsolete) ==== Noun ==== king (plural kings) A male monarch; a man who heads a monarchy; in an absolute monarchy, the supreme ruler of his nation. The monarch with the most power and authority in a monarchy, regardless of sex. Hyponym: woman king (Australia, historical) A male leader of a traditional Aboriginal group, often used as a title by colonists. A powerful or majorly influential person; someone who holds the preeminent position. (countable or uncountable) Something that has a preeminent position. A component of certain games. (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. (card games) A playing card with the letter "K" and the image of a king on it, the thirteenth card in a given suit. Hypernyms: court card, face card < playing card < card Coordinate terms: queen, jack, knave 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. The central pin or skittle in bowling games. (UK, slang) A king skin. A male dragonfly; a drake. A king-sized bed. (graph theory) A vertex in a directed graph which can reach every other vertex via a path with a length of at most 2. ===== Synonyms ===== Rex (the reigning king, formal), roy (obsolete, formal) ===== Coordinate terms ===== (monarch): caesar, emperor, empress, kaiser, maharajah, prince, princess, queen, regent, royalty, shah, tsar, viceroy (playing card): ace, jack, joker, queen ===== Derived terms ===== ===== Descendants ===== ===== Translations ===== ===== See also ===== ♔, ♚ ==== Verb ==== king (third-person singular simple present kings, present participle kinging, simple past and past participle kinged) To crown king, to make (a person) king. 1982, South Atlantic Modern Language Association, South Atlantic Review, Volume 47, page 16, The kinging of Macbeth is the business of the first part of the play […] . To rule over as king. To perform the duties of a king. 1918, Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen, The Railroad Trainman, Volume 35, page 675, He had to do all his kinging after supper, which left him no time for roystering with the nobility and certain others. To assume or pretend preeminence (over); to lord it over. 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. To dress and perform as a drag king. ===== Translations ===== === Etymology 2 === ==== Noun ==== king (plural kings) Alternative form of qing (“Chinese musical instrument”). === Anagrams === gink == Estonian == === Etymology === From Proto-Finnic *kenkä. Cognate with Finnish kenkä. === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /ˈkinɡ̊/, [ˈkiŋɡ̊] === Noun === king (genitive kinga, partitive kinga) shoe ==== Declension ==== ==== Quotations ==== == Kapampangan == === Alternative forms === keng qng̃, qng, queng, quing (Spanish variant) === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /kɪŋ/ [kɪŋ] === Preposition === king indirect object marker: of, to, at, on, in, into, onto, among, around, for ==== See also ==== == Manx == === Noun === king m inflection of kione: genitive singular nominative plural === Mutation === == Middle English == === Alternative forms === kenin, kening, kinig (in compounds, toponymic) gug, kug (in compounds, influenced by Old Norse (see etymology)) knyng (transmission error) chinge, chinȝ, cing, cining, cinȝ, ging, keing, keng, kingk, kingue, kining, kink, kyng, kynge === Etymology === Inherited from the Old English cyning, from Proto-West Germanic *kuning, from Proto-Germanic *kuningaz. The forms kug (attested in the compounds kugdom, kuglond, and kugriche) and gug (attested in the compound guglond) show the influence of the Old Norse konungr, whence they borrow their root vowel. The early forms featuring syncope (chinge, chinȝ, cing, and cinȝ) may have long ī. === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /kinɡ/, [kiŋɡ] === Noun === king (nominative plural kinges, also the early forms kingas or kingæs) king (monarch) king (chess piece) ==== Declension ==== ==== Derived terms ==== ==== Descendants ==== English: king (see there for further descendants) Scots: keeng, king Yola: kinge, king ==== References ==== “king, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007. == Old English == === Noun === king m alternative form of cyning ==== Declension ==== Strong a-stem: == Swedish == === Etymology === Borrowed from English king. === Adjective === king (indeclinable) (slang) great, awesome Synonym: kunglig (games) synonym of ruta (“foursquare”) === References === Slangopedia == Tok Pisin == === Etymology === From English king. === Noun === king king ==== Derived terms ==== == Yola == === Noun === king alternative form of kinge === References === Jacob Poole (d. 1827) (before 1828), William Barnes, editor, A Glossary, With some Pieces of Verse, of the old Dialect of the English Colony in the Baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, London: J. Russell Smith, published 1867, page 96