king
n. 国王, 君主 vt. 使...成为君主 vi. 君临, 统治
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教材释义与例句
统治；做国王
立…为王
释义与例句
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A male leader of a traditional Aboriginal group, often used as a title by colonists.
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Something that has a preeminent position.
可数 不可数In times of financial panic, cash is king.
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A component of certain games.
A playing card with the letter "K" and the image of a king on it, the thirteenth card in a given suit.
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A component of certain games.
A checker (a piece of checkers/draughts) that reached the farthest row forward, thus becoming crowned (either by turning it upside-down, or by stacking another checker on it) and gaining more freedom of movement.
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A king-sized bed.
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A male monarch; a man who heads a monarchy; in an absolute monarchy, the supreme ruler of his nation.
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Henry VIII was the king of England from 1509 to 1547.
Charles the third became the new king of England from 2022.
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The monarch with the most power and authority in a monarchy, regardless of sex.
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A powerful or majorly influential person; someone who holds the preeminent position.
Howard Stern styled himself as the "king of all media".
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A component of certain games.
The principal chess piece, that players seek to threaten with unavoidable capture to result in a victory by checkmate. It is often the tallest piece, with a symbolic crown with a cross at the top.
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A component of certain games.
The central pin or skittle in bowling games.
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A king skin.
英国 俚语Oi mate, have you got kings?
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A male dragonfly; a drake.
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A vertex in a directed graph which can reach every other vertex via a path with a length of at most 2.
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Alternative form of qing (“Chinese musical instrument”).
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To perform the duties of a king.
1918, Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen, The Railroad Trainman, Volume 35, page 675, He had to do all his kinging after supper, which left him no time for roystering with the nobility and certain others.
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To crown king, to make (a person) king.
1982, South Atlantic Modern Language Association, South Atlantic Review, Volume 47, page 16, The kinging of Macbeth is the business of the first part of the play […] .
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To rule over as king.
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To assume or pretend preeminence (over); to lord it over.
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To promote a piece of draughts/checkers that has traversed the board to the opposite side, that piece subsequently being permitted to move backwards as well as forwards.
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To dress and perform as a drag king.
词汇关系
同义词 6
反义词 1
上位词 10
下位词 1
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From Middle English king, kyng, from Old English cyng, cyning (“king”), from Proto-West Germanic *kuning, from Proto-Germanic *kuningaz, *kunungaz (“king”), equivalent to kin + -ing. Doublet of cyning and knez. Cognate with Scots king, keeng (“king”), North Frisian kining, köning (“king”), Saterland Frisian Kening (“king”), West Frisian kening (“king”), Dutch koning (“king”), Low German Koning, Köning (“king”), German König (“king”), Danish konge (“king”), Swedish konung, kung (“king”), Norwegian konge (“king”), Icelandic konungur, kóngur (“king”), Polish ksiądz (“priest”), Russian князь (knjazʹ, “prince”), Old Church Slavonic кънѧѕь (kŭnędzĭ), Romanian chinez, Finnish kuningas (“king”), Estonian kuningas, Ingrian kunigas, Veps kunigaz and Võro kuning. Eclipsed non-native Middle English roy (“king”) (Early Modern English roy), borrowed from Old French roi, rei, rai (“king”). The verb is inherited from Middle English kingen, kyngen (“to perform the duties of a king”), itself from the noun.
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