kingkɪŋ(n.)

1. a male sovereign or monarch; a man who holds by life tenure, and usu. by hereditary right, the chief authority over a country and people.

   Category: Government

2. a person or thing preeminent in its class:

   the king of actors.

3. a playing card bearing a picture of a king.

   Category: Games

4. the chief chess piece of each color, whose checkmating is the object of the game: moved one square at a time in any direction.

   Category: Checkers and Chess

5. a checker piece that has been moved entirely across the board and has been crowned, thus allowing it to be moved in any direction.

   Category: Checkers and Chess

6. (v.t.)to make a king of; crown.

   Category: Government

7. (adj.)large; king-size.

   Category: Common Vocabulary, Informal

8. preeminent.

Origin of king:

bef. 900; ME; OE cyng, cyni(n)g, c. OS kuning, OHG chunning; akin to ON konungr

king′like`(adj.)

Kingkɪŋ(n.)

1. Martin Luther, Jr., 1929–68, U.S. Baptist minister: civil-rights leader; Nobel peace prize 1964.

   Category: Biography

2. William Lyon Mackenzie, 1874–1950, prime minister of Canada 1921–26, 1926–30, 1935–48.

   Category: Biography

3. William Rufus DeVane, 1786–1853, vice president of the U.S. 1853.

   Category: Biography