| 单词 | king |
| 释义 | king —kingless, adj. —kinglessness, n. —kinglike, adj. /king/, n. 1. a male sovereign or monarch; a man who holds by life tenure, and usually by hereditary right, the chief authority over a country and people. 2. (cap.) God or Christ. 3. a person or thing preeminent in its class: a king of actors. 4. a playing card bearing a picture of a king. 5. Chess. the chief piece of each color, whose checkmating is the object of the game; moved one square at a time in any direction. 6. Checkers. a piece that has been moved entirely across the board and has been crowned, thus allowing it to be moved in any direction. 7. Entomol. a fertile male termite. 8. a word formerly used in communications to represent the letter K. v.t. 9. to make a king of; cause to be or become a king; crown. 10. Informal. to design or make (a product) king-size: The tobacco company is going to king its cigarettes. v.i. 11. to reign as king. 12. king it, to play the king; behave in an imperious or pretentious manner: He kinged it over all the other kids on the block. adj. 13. Informal. king-size. [bef. 900; ME; OE cyng, cyni(n)g; c. G König, D koning, ON konungr, Sw konung, Dan konge. See KIN, -ING3] |
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