Word

king, n.
(kings)
freq. cnt. 21

a male sovereign; ruler of a kingdom
<noun.person> freq. cnt.: 19 freq. cnt.: 19

Rex king male monarch

lexical pointers

derivationally related form

kingly kingdom kingdom kingship

antonym

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antonym

semantic pointers

member holonym

royalty, royal family, royal house, royal line

instance hyponym

Messiah Ahab Akhenaton, Akhenaten, Ikhanaton, Amenhotep IV Alaric Alfred, Alfred the Great Artaxerxes I, Artaxerxes Artaxerxes II, Artaxerxes Ashurbanipal, Assurbanipal, Asurbanipal Athelstan Attila, Attila the Hun, Scourge of God, Scourge of the Gods Bruce, Robert the Bruce, Robert I Carl XVI Gustav, Carl XVI Gustaf Clovis, Clovis I Croesus Cyrus II, Cyrus the Elder, Cyrus the Great Darius I, Darius the Great Darius III David Edmund I Edmund II, Edmund Ironside Edward the Elder Edwin Egbert Ethelbert Ethelred, Ethelred I Ethelred, Ethelred II, Ethelred the Unready Fahd, Fahd ibn Abdel Aziz al-Saud Faisal, Faisal ibn Abdel Aziz al-Saud Farouk I, Faruk I Ferdinand I, Ferdinand the Great Ferdinand, King Ferdinand, Ferdinand of Aragon, Ferdinand V, Ferdinand the Catholic Frederick I Frederick II, Frederick the Great Frederick William I Frederick William II Frederick William III Frederick William IV Genseric, Gaiseric Gilgamesh Gordius Gustavus, Gustavus I Gustavus, Gustavus II, Gustavus Adolphus Gustavus, Gustavus III Gustavus, Gustavus IV Gustavus, Gustavus V Gustavus, Gustavus VI Hammurabi, Hammurapi Herod, Herod the Great Hezekiah, Ezekias Hussein, Husain, Husayn, ibn Talal Hussein, King Hussein James, James IV Jeroboam, Jeroboam I Juan Carlos, Juan Carlos Victor Maria de Borbon y Borbon Kamehameha I, Kamehameha the Great Leonidas Macbeth Mithridates, Mithridates VI, Mithridates the Great Nebuchadnezzar, Nebuchadnezzar II, Nebuchadrezzar, Nebuchadrezzar II Olaf II, Olav II, Saint Olaf, Saint Olav, St. Olaf, St. Olav Pepin, Pepin III, Pepin the Short Philip II, Philip II of Spain Philip II, Philip II of Macedon Philip II, Philip Augustus Philip V Philip VI, Philip of Valois Ptolemy I Ptolemy II Pyrrhus Rameses, Ramesses, Ramses Saul Sennacherib Solomon Tarquin, Tarquin the Proud, Tarquinius, Tarquinius Superbus, Lucius Tarquinius Superbus Victor Emanuel II Victor Emanuel III Xerxes I, Xerxes the Great

hypernym

sovereign, monarch, crowned head

hyponym

King of England, King of Great Britain King of France King of the Germans

a very wealthy or powerful businessman
<noun.person> freq. cnt.: 3 freq. cnt.: 1 freq. cnt.: 1 freq. cnt.: 1

baron big businessman business leader king magnate mogul power top executive tycoon

sample sentences

"an oil baron"

semantic pointers

hypernym

businessman, man of affairs

hyponym

a competitor who holds a preeminent position
<noun.person> freq. cnt.: 1 freq. cnt.: 1

king queen world-beater

semantic pointers

hypernym

competitor, rival, challenger, competition, contender

(chess) the weakest but the most important piece
<noun.artifact>

king

semantic pointers

domain of synset (topic)

chess, chess game

hypernym

chessman, chess piece

one of the four playing cards in a deck bearing the picture of a king
<noun.artifact>

king

semantic pointers

hypernym

face card, picture card, court card

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
<noun.artifact>

king

semantic pointers

domain of synset (topic)

checkers, draughts

hypernym

checker, chequer

preeminence in a particular category or group or field
<noun.state>

king

sample sentences

"the lion is the king of beasts"

semantic pointers

hypernym

distinction, eminence, preeminence, note