From en.wiktionary.org:
[King]
** English
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*** Alternative forms
- [en]
- [en]
*** Pronunciation
- [kĭng] ; [en]
- [en]
- [en]
- [en]
- [en]
- [en]
*** Etymology 1
[en] From [en], [enm], from [en], [ang], from [en], from [en], [gem-pro],
equivalent to [en]. [en].
Cognate with [sco], [frr], [fy], [nl], [nds], [nds], [de], [da], [no], [sv],
[sv], [is], [is], [pl], [ru], [cu], [ro], [fi], [et], [izh], [krl], [olo],
[lud], [vep], [vro] and [vot]. Eclipsed non-native [enm] (Early Modern
English [en]), borrowed from [fro], [fro], [fro].
The verb is [en], [enm], itself from the noun [enm], [enm].
**** Noun
[en-noun]
1. A male monarch ; a man who head s a monarchy ; in an absolute monarchy , the supreme ruler of his nation .
2. The monarch with the most power and authority in a monarchy , regardless of sex.
3. * [en]
4. * [en]
5. * [en]
6. A powerful or majorly influential person; someone who holds the preeminent position.
7. * [I]
8. * [en]
9. * {{ quote-journal | en | date=2014-06-21 | volume=411 | issue=8892 | magazine=w:The Economist
|title=Magician’s brain (see
http://www.economist.com/news/books-and-arts/21604535-real-sir-isaac-newton-was-not-first-king-reason-last)
|passage=The truth is that [Isaac] Newton was very much a product of his time.
The colossus of science was not the first KING of reason, Keynes wrote after
reading Newton’s unpublished manuscripts. Instead “he was the last of the
magicians”.}}
1. [en] Something that has a preeminent position.
2. * {{ quote-journal | en | date=June 3, 2012 | author=Nathan Rabin | title= TV: Review: THE SIMPSONS (CLASSIC): “Mr. Plow” (season 4, episode 9; originally aired 11/19/1992) (see http://www.avclub.com/articles/mr-plow,75560/)
|passage=It would be difficult, for example, to imagine a bigger, more obvious
subject for comedy than the laughable self-delusion of washed-up celebrities,
especially if the washed-up celebrity in question is Adam West, a camp icon
who can go toe to toe with William Shatner as the KING of winking
self-parody.}}
1. A component of certain game s.
1. [en] [en] 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.
2. [en] [en] A playing card with the letter "K" and the image of a king on it, the thirteenth card in a given suit .
3. A checker (a piece of checkers / draughts ) that reached the farthest row forward, thus becoming crowned (either by turning it upside-down, or by stack ing another checker on it) and gaining more freedom of movement .
4. The central pin or skittle in bowling games.
5. * {{ quote-text | en | year=1878 | author=John Henry Walsh | title=British Rural Sports | page=712
|passage=In knockemdowns and bowls ten pins are used, the centre one being
called the KING, and the ball has to be grounded before it reaches the
frame.}}
1. [en] A king skin .
2. A male dragonfly ; a drake .
3. A king-sized bed .
4. * {{ quote-text | en | year=2002 | author=Scott W. Donkin; Gerard Meyer | title=Peak Performance: Body and Mind | page=119
|passage=Try asking for a king-size bed next time because KINGS are usually
firmer.}}
1. [en] A vertex in a directed graph which can reach every other vertex via a path with a length of at most 2.
***** Synonyms
- [en] [the reigning king] , [en] [obsolete]
***** Coordinate terms
- [monarch] [en] , [en] , [en] , [en] , [en] , [en] , [en] , [en] , [en] , [en] , [en] , [en] , [en]
- [playing card] [en] , [en] , [en] , [en]
***** Derived terms
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|war-king|woman king|King of the Jungle }}
***** Descendants
[top3]
- [tpi]
- [ase]
- [my]
- [szv]
- [ja]
- [ko]
- [mi]
- [mh]
- [th]
[bottom]
***** Translations
[Noun]
***** See also
- [mul] , [mul]
[table:chess pieces/en] [table:playing cards/en] [table:suits/en]
**** Verb
[en-verb]
1. To crown king, to make (a person) king.
2. * 1982 , South Atlantic Modern Language Association, _South Atlantic Review_ , Volume 47, |%22kinging%22+-intitle:pareidolia&dq=%22kinged%22 | %22kinging%22+-intitle:pareidolia&hl=en&ei=42MYTpSCKa7smAW4q9kR&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=10&ved=0CFUQ6AEwCTg8 page 16 (see http://books.google.com/books?id=lN4KAQAAMAAJ&q=%22kinged%22) ,
3. *: The KINGING of Macbeth is the business of the first part of the play [...] .
4. * {{ quote-text | en | year=2008 | author=William Shakespeare | editor=A. R. Braunmuller | title=Macbeth | section=Introduction, page 24 (see http://books.google.com/books?id=ujpDPuoQCugC&pg=PA24&dq=%22kinged%22%7C%22kinging%22+-intitle:pareidolia&hl=en&ei=oHsYTtOzFqyemQXKpqgC&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=3&ved=0CC8Q6AEwAjjIAQ#v=onepage&q=%22kinged%22%7C%22kinging%22%20-intitle%3Apareidolia&f=false)
|passage=One narrative is the KINGING and unkinging of Macbeth; the other
narrative is the attack on Banquo's line and that line's eventual accession
and supposed Jacobean survival through Malcolm's successful counter-attack on
Macbeth.}}
1. To rule over as king.
2. * [2]
3. To perform the duties of a king.
4. * 1918 , Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen, _The Railroad Trainman_ , Volume 35, |%22kinging%22+-intitle:pareidolia&dq=%22kinged%22 | %22kinging%22+-intitle:pareidolia&hl=en&ei=a2sYTr7mGfDRmAWpn5kn&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=7&ved=0CEIQ6AEwBjha page 675 (see http://books.google.com/books?id=tNHNAAAAMAAJ&q=%22kinged%22) ,
5. *: He had to do all his KINGING after supper, which left him no time for roystering with the nobility and certain others.
6. * {{ quote-book | en | year=2001 | author=Chip R. Bell | title=Managers as Mentors: Building Partnerships for Learning | pageurl=http://books.google.com/books?id=Muu2Fb4JYtcC&pg=PA6&dq=%22kinged%22%7C%22kinging%22+-intitle:pareidolia&hl=en&ei=oHsYTtOzFqyemQXKpqgC&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=9&ved=0CE0Q6AEwCDjIAQ#v=onepage&q=%22kinged%22%7C%22kinging%22%20-intitle%3Apareidolia&f=false | page=6
|passage=Second, Mentor (the old man) combined the wisdom of experience with
the sensitivity of a fawn in his attempts to convey KINGING skills to young
Telemachus.}}
1. To assume or pretend preeminence (over); to lord it over .
2. * {{ quote-book | en | year=1917 | author=Edna Ferber | title=Fanny Herself | pageurl=http://books.google.com/books?id=xLoqDnHULCIC&pg=PA32&dq=%22kinged%22%7C%22kinging%22+-intitle:pareidolia&hl=en&ei=54gYTtP2K8b-mAWP6vwg&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=2&ved=0CC0Q6AEwATjcAQ#v=onepage&q=%22kinged%22%7C%22kinging%22%20-intitle%3Apareidolia&f=false | page=32
|passage=The seating arrangement of the temple was the Almanach de Gotha of
Congregation Emanu-el. Old Ben Reitman, patriarch among the Jewish settlers
of Winnebago, who had come over an immigrant youth, and who now owned hundreds
of rich farm acres, besides houses, mills and banks, KINGED it from the front
seat of the center section.}}
1. 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.
2. * {{ quote-book | en | year=1957 | editor=Bertram Vivian Bowden | title=Faster Than Thought: A Symposium on Digital Computing Machines | pageurl=http://books.google.com/books?id=HcIrAAAAYAAJ&q=%22kinged%22%7C%22kinging%22+-intitle:pareidolia&dq=%22kinged%22%7C%22kinging%22+-intitle:pareidolia&hl=en&ei=l2YYTv67Ga_3mAXHu4T7Dw&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=5&ved=0CDYQ6AEwBDhG | page=302
|passage=If the machine does this, it will lose only one point, and as it is
not looking far enough ahead, it cannot see that it has not prevented its
opponent from KINGING but only postponed the evil day.}}
1. * {{ quote-book | en | year=1986 | author=Rick DeMarinis | title=The Burning Women of Far Cry | pageurl=http://books.google.com/books?id=bT3lAAAAMAAJ&q=%22kinged%22%7C%22kinging%22+-intitle:pareidolia&dq=%22kinged%22%7C%22kinging%22+-intitle:pareidolia&hl=en&ei=BncYTqSEEczzmAXU6dykDQ&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=6&ved=0CDsQ6AEwBTiWAQ | page=100
|passage=I was about to make a move that would corner a piece that she was
trying to get KINGED, but I slid my checker back[...].}}
1. To dress and perform as a drag king .
2. * {{ quote-book | en | year=2008 | author=Audrey Yue | chapter=King Victoria: Asian Drag Kings, Postcolonial Female Masculinity, and Hybrid Sexuality in Australia | editors=Fran Martin; Peter Jackson; Audrey Yue; Mark McLelland | title=AsiaPacifQueer: Rethinking Genders and Sexualities | pageurl=http://books.google.com/books?id=PssO1pfKDtwC&pg=PA266&dq=%22kinged%22%7C%22kinging%22+-intitle:pareidolia&hl=en&ei=kVoYTpXkNofMmAXHjoS1CA&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=3&ved=0CC8Q6AEwAjgU#v=onepage&q=%22kinged%22%7C%22kinging%22%20-intitle%3Apareidolia&f=false | page=266
|passage=Through the ex-centric diaspora, KINGING in postcolonial Australia
has become a site of critical hybridity where diasporic female masculinities
have emerged through the contestations of "home" and "host" cultures.}}
***** Translations
[in checkers]
- Catalan: [ca]
- Galician: [gl]
- Hungarian: [hu]
- Italian: [it]
- Romanian: [ro]
- Spanish: [es]
[trans-bottom]
*** Etymology 2
**** Noun
[en-noun]
1. [en] .
*** Anagrams
- [en]
[en]
** Estonian
*** Etymology
From [et]. Cognate with [fi].
*** Pronunciation
- [et-IPA]
*** Noun
[kinga]
1. shoe
**** Declension
[kin]
**** Quotations
[et]
[et]
** Kapampangan
*** Alternative forms
- [pam]
- [pam]
*** Pronunciation
- [pam-IPA]
*** Preposition
[pam]
1. [indirect object marker] : of , to , at , on , in , into , onto , among , around , for
**** See also
[pam-markers]
** Manx
*** Noun
[gv]
1. [gv]
*** Mutation
[k]
** Middle English
*** Alternative forms
- [enm]
- [enm]
- [enm]
- [enm]
*** Etymology
Inherited from the [enm], from [enm], from [enm]. The forms [enm] (attested
in the compounds [enm], [enm], and [enm]) and [enm] (attested in the compound
[enm]) show the influence of the [enm], whence they borrow their root vowel.
The early forms featuring [en] ([enm], [enm], [enm], and [enm]) may have long
[enm].
*** Pronunciation
- [enm]
*** Noun
[enm]
1. [en] [monarch]
2. [en] [chess piece]
**** Derived terms
[enm]
**** Descendants
- [en] [see desc]
- [sco]
- [yol]
**** References
- [entry=king]
[enm]
** Old English
*** Noun
[m]
1. [ang]
** Swedish
*** Etymology
[sv].
*** Adjective
[?]
1. [sv] great , awesome
2. [sv] [sv]
*** References
- Slangopedia (see http://www.slangopedia.se/ordlista/?ord=king)
** Tok Pisin
*** Etymology
From [tpi].
*** Noun
[tpi]
1. [en]
** Yola
*** Noun
[yol]
1. [yol]
2. * [yol]
*** References
- [page=96]