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What is the noun for kings?

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king
  1. A male monarch; a man who heads a monarchy. If it's an absolute monarchy, then he is the supreme ruler of his nation.
  2. A powerful or influential person.
  3. Something that has a preeminent position.
  4. A component of certain games.
    1. 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.
    2. (card game) A playing card with the letter "K" and the image of a king on it, the thirteenth card in a given suit.
    3. 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.
  5. (Britain, slang) A king skin.
  6. A male dragonfly; a drake.
  7. A king-sized bed.
  8. Synonyms:
  9. Examples:
    1. “In 1154, Henry II became king of England.”
      “The commoners would suffer under the king's despotic rule.”
      “The way this ridiculous old man was making believe he was king of the film industry when his movies where twenty years old tickled me, but in a strange way it also inspired me.”
kingric
  1. (Britain dialectal, obsolete) A kingdom or realm.
  2. (Britain dialectal, obsolete) Sovereignty; kingly authority; kingship.
  3. (Britain dialectal, obsolete) A king's reign.
  4. (Britain dialectal, obsolete) Monarchy.
kingdom
  1. A realm having a king and/or queen as its actual or nominal sovereign.
  2. A realm, region, or conceptual space where something is dominant.
  3. (taxonomy) A rank in the classification of organisms, below domain and above phylum; a taxon at that rank (e.g. the plant kingdom, the animal kingdom).
  4. Synonyms:
  5. Examples:
    1. “He was an authoritative king who ruled his kingdom justly and fairly.”
      “But this lady seems to be having no trouble doing both, even as she continues her reign in the glamour kingdom.”
      “Leave it to Mother Nature, who will sort out the animal kingdom the natural way.”
kingship
  1. The dignity, rank or office of a king; the state of being a king.
  2. A monarchy.
  3. The territory or dominion of a king; a kingdom.
  4. Synonyms:
  5. Examples:
    1. “This is the day that I officially abdicate from my throne and pass the kingship on to my successor.”
      “The principle of divine kingship was maintained even when the king was replaced by rulers drawn from outside the family of the enthroned king.”
      “Following the division of the Carolingian Empire in 843, the Ottonian rulers united their German kingship with the imperial crown.”
kingmaking
  1. The ceremony of crowning a king, or any similar ceremony of endowing a person with high office.
  2. In games, a strategy or design where one player (often the losing one) essentially gets to pick who wins. (Can we add an example for this sense?)
kinglet
  1. (pejorative) A petty king; a king ruling over a small or unimportant territory.
  2. Any of several birds of the crest family Regulidae.
  3. Examples:
    1. “The passage also reveals, incidentally, that an Ethiopian prince or kinglet ruled at that time over at least a province of South Arabia.”
      “Spence was able to get binocs on a kinglet and a nice male yellow-rump eventually.”
      “The kinglet was smeared with cobalt, adorned with rings, and blubbery, with a belly like jelly.”
kings
kinghood
  1. The quality or state of being a king; kingship.
  2. The state of being a king.
  3. Examples:
    1. “As Shakespeare wrote it, The Chronicle History of Henry the Fifth is an intensely masculine, simple, sanguine drama of kinghood and war.”
      “He took the true mantle of kinghood by forcing Asineth, now queen by her father's death, to marry him.”
      “In Louis, surely, if in any one, the majesty of kinghood is represented.”
kingliness
  1. (uncountable) The state or quality of being kingly.
  2. (countable) The result or product of being kingly.
  3. Synonyms:
  4. Examples:
    1. “The kingliness that he had never known how to wear becomingly now fell from him utterly.”
      “That kingliness that God has given to it, that joy and beauty for which it is born and which it longs to have, are thus taken away from it.”
      “The sheer authority in his voice revealed his kingliness, and for a moment I understood Roahin's fear, if not his betrayal.”
kingside
  1. (chess) The side of the chessboard nearest to the king (at the opening position).
  2. Examples:
    1. “He is behind in development, can't castle kingside and his queenside is weakened.”
      “Much of the King's Indian is based on White having faith in his queenside play over Black's kingside chances.”
      “With white he quickly swung his queen over to the kingside and proceeded to advance his pawns.”
king
  1. Alternative form of qing (Chinese musical instrument)
  2. Synonyms:
  3. Examples:
    1. “In 1154, Henry II became king of England.”
      “The commoners would suffer under the king's despotic rule.”
      “The way this ridiculous old man was making believe he was king of the film industry when his movies where twenty years old tickled me, but in a strange way it also inspired me.”
kingling
  1. A kinglet; a petty king or ruler.
kingdome
  1. Obsolete spelling of kingdom
  2. Examples:
    1. “This is the opinion of all them that haue entred into this kingdome, and haue intreated of this matter with the chinos.”
kinge
  1. Obsolete spelling of king
kinglihood
kingslayer
  1. (chiefly fantasy) One who kills a king.
  2. Synonyms:
  3. Examples:
    1. “The infamous kingslayer was brought to justice for his heinous crime of assassinating the monarch.”
      “The Kingslayer shoves her against the altar of their dead son, and then to the ground beside it.”
kings
kingmakings
  1. plural of kingmaking
kingslayers
kinglinesses
kinghoods
  1. plural of kinghood
kingships
kingdomes
  1. plural of kingdome
kinglings
  1. plural of kingling
kingsides
  1. plural of kingside
kinglets
  1. plural of kinglet
kingdoms
  1. plural of kingdom
  2. Synonyms:
  3. Examples:
    1. “Unitary states may be created from a number of republics, kingdoms, and principalities, as with Germany and Italy.”
      “Rather, the German state resulted from the union of a collection of principalities and kingdoms under the domination of the strongest, Prussia.”
      “Along it, empires, kingdoms, and colonial realms have been plunged into war and bloodshed.”
kinges
  1. plural of kinge
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