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Word entry · 4 letters

king

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"Male monarch"

4 letters · collected on this word page

4 lettersPronunciation /ˈkɪŋ/Part of speech nounSorted giknStarts with KEnds with G9 cluesVery common crossword word
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Definitions

  1. Male monarch; chess piece

Word origin

From Middle English king, kyng, kynge, from Old English cening, cing, cining, cuning, cyncg, cyneg, cyng, cyngc, cynig, cyning, king, kining, kuning, kyning, kyningc (“king”), from Proto-West Germanic *kuning, from Proto-Germanic *kuningaz, *kunungaz (“king”), from *kunją (“clan, family, kin”), from Proto-Indo-European *ǵenh₁- (“to produce; to beget”). Equivalent to kin + -ing. Doublet of cyning and knez.

Used in a sentence

  • Henry VIII was the king of England from 1509 to 1547.
  • Charles the third became the new king of England from 2022.
  • Hatshepsut was ruling as a king, not queen and she needed to be recognised as such.

Source: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0

Used as a crossword answer9 curated clues

01Male monarch4 letters
02Male royal4 letters
03Man on a throne4 letters
04Monarch in a crown4 letters
05Monarch with a crown4 letters
06Royal chess piece4 letters
07Royal ruler4 letters
08Top royal4 letters

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