king
Betekenis (Engels)
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- 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.
- A powerful or majorly influential person.
- Something that has a preeminent position.
- A component of certain games.
- A component of certain games.
- A component of certain games.
- A component of certain games.
- (slang) A king skin.
- A male dragonfly; a drake.
- A king-sized bed.
- A vertex in a directed graph which can reach every other vertex via a path with a length of at most 2.
Sinonieme
male monarch
business leader
most important
top executive
big businessman
billystick
great man
learned man
paramount chief
great king
Raja
village chief
one bearing a discus
king in his own person
one-spot
stun baton
rule over
Frekwensie
Uitgespreek as (IPA)
/kʰɪŋ/
Etimologie (Engels)
From Middle English king, kyng, from Old English cyng, cyning (“king”), from Proto-West Germanic *kuning, from Proto-Germanic *kuningaz, *kunungaz (“king”), equivalent to kin + -ing. Doublet of cyning and knez. Cognate with Scots keeng (“king”), North Frisian köning (“king”), West Frisian kening (“king”), Dutch koning (“king”), Low German Koning, Köning (“king”), German König (“king”), Danish konge (“king”), Norwegian konge, Swedish konung, kung (“king”), Icelandic konungur, kóngur (“king”), Polish ksiądz (“priest”), Russian князь (knjazʹ, “prince”), Old Church Slavonic кънѧѕь (kŭnędzĭ), Romanian chinez, Finnish kuningas (“king”), Estonian kuningas, Ingrian kunigas, Karelian kuninkas, Livvi kuńingas, Ludian kuńingas, Veps kuningaz, Võro kuning and Votic kunikaz. Eclipsed non-native Middle English roy (“king”) (Early Modern English roy), borrowed from Old French roi, rei, rai (“king”).
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