| 单词 | king |
| 释义 | king(kɪŋ) noun 1. a male sovereign prince who is the official ruler of an independent state; monarch ▶ Related adjectives: royal, regal, monarchical2. a. a ruler or chief king of the fairies b. (in combination) the pirate king 3. a. a person, animal, or thing considered as the best or most important of its kind b. (as modifier) a king bull 4. any of four playing cards in a pack, one for each suit, bearing the picture of a king 5. the most important chess piece, although theoretically the weakest, being able to move only one square at a time in any direction See also check (sense 30), checkmate 6. draughts a piece that has moved entirely across the board and has been crowned, after which it may move backwards as well as forwards 7. king of kings verb (transitive) 8. to make (someone) a king 9. king it Derived forms kinghood (ˈkingˌhood) noun kingless (ˈkingless) adjective kinglike (ˈkingˌlike) adjective Word origin Old English cyning; related to Old High German kunig king, Danish kongeKing(kɪŋ) noun 1. B.B., real name Riley B. King.1925–2015, US blues singer and guitarist 2. Billie Jean (née Moffitt). born 1943, US tennis player: winner of twelve Grand Slam singles titles, including Wimbledon (1966–68, 1972–73, and 1975) and the US Open (1967, 1971–72, and 1974) 3. Martin Luther. 1929–68, US Baptist minister and civil-rights leader. He advocated nonviolence in his campaigns against the segregation of Black people in the South: assassinated: Nobel Peace Prize 1964 4. Mervyn (Allister), Baron. born 1948, British banker; governor of the Bank of England (2003–13); a cross-bench peer in the House of Lords from 2013 5. Stephen (Edwin). born 1947, US writer esp of horror novels; his books, many of which have been filmed, include Carrie (1974), The Shining (1977), Misery (1988), and Everything's Eventual (2002) 6. William Lyon Mackenzie. 1874–1950, Canadian Liberal statesman; prime minister (1921–26; 1926–30; 1935–48) |
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