Definitions
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
01“Male monarch”4 letters
02“Male royal”4 letters
03“Man on a throne”4 letters
04“Monarch in a crown”4 letters
05“Monarch with a crown”4 letters
06“Royal chess piece”4 letters
07“Royal ruler”4 letters
08“Top royal”4 letters
09“Male ruler”4 letters
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