King

  • (noun): One of the four playing cards in a deck bearing the picture of a king.
    See also — Additional definitions below

Some articles on king:

Henry Percy, 1st Earl Of Northumberland - Character
... was base, and merely dictated by his wish to place the new king under overwhelming obligations, and reap a rich harvest from his gratitude ... But he failed to make allowance for the king's financial difficulties he was impatient, and perhaps incapable of appreciating the position of affairs ... that were near to him, when he found that the king had learnt to distrust him, saw his rivals advancing in favour and power, and knew that his greatness was slipping from him ...
Semiramis
... in Persian 'Shamiram'), was the Assyrian queen of Shamshi-Adad V (ruled 824 BC–811 BC), King of Assyria and ruler of the Neo Assyrian Empire, and its regent for four years until ... /səˈmɪrəmɪs/) was the legendary queen of king Ninus, succeeding him to the throne of Assyria ... Siculus, Justin and others from Ctesias of Cnidus describe her and her relationship to King Ninus, himself a mythical king of Assyria, not attested in the Assyrian King ...
Gandhara - History
... The Behistun inscription listing the 23 territories of King Darius I (519 BC) includes Gandāra along with Bactria and Thatagush (ϑataguš, Satagydia) ... by Herodotus, Gandhara is named as a source of tax collections for King Darius ... The Aitareya Brahmana refers to king Naganajit of Gandhara who was a contemporary of Janaka, king of Videha ...
John Stokesley
... opinions from foreign universities in favour of the king's divorce from Catherine of Aragon ... In May 1538, the King's attorney took out a writ of Praemunire against Stokesley and, as accessories with him, against the Abbess Agnes Jordan and the Confessor ... Cromwell's intercession, and threw himself on the King's mercy ...
King, Ontario - Public Services
... cultural service provided via municipal funding is the King Township Public Library, which operates four branches in the township ...

More definitions of "king":

  • (noun): A male sovereign; ruler of a kingdom.
    Synonyms: male monarch
  • (noun): United States guitar player and singer of the blues (born in 1925).
    Synonyms: B. B. King, Riley B King
  • (noun): A checker that has been moved to the opponent's first row where it is promoted to a piece that is free to move either forward or backward.
  • (noun): (chess) the weakest but the most important piece.
  • (noun): Preeminence in a particular category or group or field.
    Example: "The lion is the king of beasts"

Famous quotes by king:

    “The actor is too prone to exaggerate his powers; he wants to play Hamlet when his appearance is more suitable to King Lear.”
    —Sarah Bernhardt (1845–1923)

    “Will no one rid me of this turbulent priest?”
    —Henry II, King (1133–1189)

    “‘The horror of that moment,’ the King went on, ‘I shall never, never forget!’
    ‘You will, though,’ the Queen said, ‘if you don’t make a memorandum of it.’”
    —Lewis Carroll [Charles Lutwidge Dodgson] (1832–1898)

    “The supreme, the merciless, the destroyer of opposition, the exalted King, the shepherd, the protector of the quarters of the world, the King the word of whose mouth destroys mountains and seas, who by his lordly attack has forced mighty and merciless Kings from the rising of the sun to the setting of the same to acknowledge one supremacy.”
    —Ashurnasirpal II (r. 883–59 B.C.)

    “The king said, -Divide the living boy in two; then give half to the one, and half to the other. But the woman whose son was alive said to the king -because compassion for her son burned within her - -Please, my lord, give her the living boy; certainly do not kill him! The other said, -It shall be neither mine nor yours; divide it. Then the king responded: -Give the first woman the living boy; do not kill him. She is his mother.”
    —Bible: Hebrew, 1 Kings. 3:25-37.

    Solomon resolves a dispute between two women over a child. Solomon’s wisdom was proven by this story.