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/ˈkɪŋ/ · noun
A male monarch; a man who heads a monarchy; in an absolute monarchy, the supreme ruler of his nation..
Henry VIII was the king of England from 1509 to 1547.
Charles the third became the new king of England from 2022.
The British Parliament has had made it for it in the past the claim that it could do anything excepting convert a woman into a man.[…]And the high court [of Amsterdam] has done it by deciding that all officials and public servants shall take their oath of allegiance not to Queen Wilhelmina but to King Wilhelmina.
Hatshepsut was ruling as a king, not queen and she needed to be recognised as such.
The act of perforating one’s ears could be read as a gendering performance—a modification from an overt masculinity (king) to a tempered female masculinity (king with female traits)—in which the male king was expected to adopt the quintessence of Omeppa’s female king wife, Ebulejonu, and by so doing, embody the true essence of womanhood.[…]Attah-Ebulejonu, like Hatshepsut of Egypt before her, ruled as (and was remembered as) a king, not queen, perhaps setting the precedent for the coronation of another female king, Ahebi Ugbabe, about four centuries later.[…]This time, the female king would not rule in the Igala kingdom nor would she be of Igala origin. Instead, the king would be an Igbo woman who had lived in Igalaland for many years, who had come of age and matured there and in the process had imbibed the cultural values and mores of the people with whom she had lived in exile.
Old Culwaddy the ‘king’, squatting by the galley fire, looked up questioningly[.]
Howard Stern styled himself as the "king of all media".
"I wish we were back in Tenth Street. But so many children came[…]and the Tenth Street house wasn't half big enough; and a dreadful speculative builder built this house and persuaded Austin to buy it. Oh, dear, and here we are among the rich and great; and the steel kings and copper kings and oil kings and their heirs and dauphins.[…]"
Use king when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
King means A male monarch; a man who heads a monarchy; in an absolute monarchy, the supreme ruler of his nation..
Common synonyms include Rex, roy, power, magnate.
Possible antonyms include queen, queen regnant, female monarch.
Henry VIII was the king of England from 1509 to 1547.
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