Usually means: Monarch ruling over a nation.
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We found 52 dictionaries that define the word king:

General (29 matching dictionaries)
  1. king: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. King, king: Merriam-Webster
  3. King, king, the King: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. king: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. king: Collins English Dictionary
  6. King, king: Vocabulary.com
  7. KIng, King, King, king: Wordnik
  8. king: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. King, king: Wiktionary
  10. king: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. king: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. king: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. King, king: Dictionary.com
  14. king: Online Etymology Dictionary
  15. king: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
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  17. King: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  18. king: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  19. king: Rhymezone
  20. king: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  21. king: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  22. KING: E Cobham Brewer, The Reader's Handbook
  23. King, King: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  24. king: FreeDictionary.org
  25. king: Mnemonic Dictionary
  26. King: TheFreeDictionary.com
  27. king: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. King: Dictionary of Symbolism

Business (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Construction Term Glossary (No longer online)
  2. Bouvier's Law Dictionary 1856 Edition (No longer online)
  3. king: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. King (monarch), king: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  2. King: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (7 matching dictionaries)
  1. Encyclopedia of Graphic Symbols (No longer online)
  2. baby names list (No longer online)
  3. Brilliant Dream Dictionary (No longer online)
  4. Arms and Armour (No longer online)
  5. KING: Acronym Finder
  6. AbbreviationZ (No longer online)
  7. king: Idioms

Religion (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. King: Easton Bible
  2. King: Smith's Bible Dictionary

Slang (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. king, king, king, King: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. King: Street Terms: Drugs and the Drug Trade
  3. The King: Urban Dictionary
  4. The King, King: A Seattle Lexicon

Sports (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. King: Card Games
  2. King: Chess Dictionary

Tech (1 matching dictionary)
  1. King: Coin Collecting

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  A male monarch; a man who heads a monarchy; in an absolute monarchy, the supreme ruler of his nation.
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.]

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