king
noun
[ kɪŋ ]
• the male ruler of an independent state, especially one who inherits the position by right of birth.
• "King Henry VIII"
Similar:
ruler,
sovereign,
monarch,
supreme ruler,
crowned head,
majesty,
Crown,
head of state,
royal personage,
emperor,
prince,
potentate,
overlord,
liege lord,
lord,
leader,
chief,
• the most important chess piece, of which each player has one, which the opponent has to checkmate in order to win. The king can move in any direction, including diagonally, to any adjacent square that is not attacked by an opponent's piece or pawn.
king
verb
• make (someone) king.
• act in an unpleasantly superior and domineering way.
• "he'll start kinging it over the lot of us again"
Origin:
Old English cyning, cyng, of Germanic origin; related to Dutch koning and German König, also to kin.
God Save the Queen
noun
• the British national anthem.
Origin:
evidence suggests a 17th-century origin for the complete words and tune of the anthem. The ultimate origin is obscure: the phrase ‘God save the King’ occurs in various passages in the Old Testament, while as early as 1545 it was a watchword in the navy, with ‘long to reign over us’ as a countersign.
