king

«king» in Mova's school dictionary: a man who rules a country, usually because his parent was… — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

part of speech

noun (a king, kings)

meaning for a pupil

1) A king is a man who rules a country, usually because his parent was king or queen before him. tree →

2) A king is a playing card with a picture of a king, and the most important piece in chess. tree →

3) A king is a man, animal or thing thought to be the best or most powerful of its kind («the lion is the king of the jungle»). tree →

sense in the lessons

In history and stories kings appear in castles, battles and fairy tales; the United Kingdom, Canada, Australia and New Zealand have a king as head of state today, but he does not make the laws. In games, the king is the piece to protect in chess and a high card in cards. Phrases: «King Charles», «the king of the castle», «king-size», «kingdom», «crowned king».

examples

• The king wore a golden crown. tree →
• Britain has a king, but Parliament makes the laws. tree →
• In chess, you lose if your king is trapped. tree →
• I have the king of hearts! tree →
• The lion is called the king of the jungle, though it lives on grassland. tree →
• The prince became king when his mother died. tree →
• He thinks he is the king of the playground. tree →
• We slept in a king-size bed at the hotel. tree →

note

Countable: «a king». With a name it has a capital: «King Charles III». Female: «queen». The land ruled is a «kingdom»; the adjective is «kingly» or «royal». In a pack of cards there are 4 kings out of 52 cards, so the chance of drawing a king is 4/52 = 1/13.

In the corpora

• Camilla became Queen when Charles became King and was crowned with him in May 2023.
• In the 1933 film King Kong the giant gorilla was a small model moved by hand a tiny bit at a time.
• In The Lion King musical the puppets are designed so you see both the actor and the animal.
• A mother king cobra builds a nest of leaves for her eggs, which almost no other snake does.
• The King's argument: anything that has a head can be beheaded.

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «king» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.