| king | (chess) the weakest but the most important chessman |
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| king | one of the four playing cards in a deck bearing the picture of a king |
| king | (checkers) 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 |
| king | a very wealthy or powerful businessman |
| king | a male sovereign |
| king | a competitor who holds a preeminent position |
| king | United States Baptist minister and charismatic civil rights leader who campaigned against the segregation of Blacks (1929-1968) |
| king | United States guitar player and singer of the blues (born in 1925) |
| king | United States woman tennis player (born in 1943) |
| king | a legendary king of the Britons (possibly based on a historical figure in the 6th century but the story has been retold too many times to be sure) |
| king | any of numerous usually rhizomatous hybrid begonias derived from an East Indian plant having rough-textured leaves patterned in silver and bronze and purple and red-brown with inconspicuous flowers |
| king | United States inventor and manufacturer who developed the safety razor (1855-1932) |