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style="min-width:728px;min-height:90px"></div></div><div class="word--C9UPa"><div><div class="" style="position:relative"><h1 title="Origin and meaning of king" class="word__name--TTbAA">king<!-- --> <!-- -->(n.)</h1><section class="word__defination--2q7ZH"><p>a late Old English contraction of <span class="foreign notranslate">cyning</span> "king, ruler" (also used as a title), from Proto-Germanic <span class="foreign notranslate">*kuningaz</span> (source also of Dutch <span class="foreign notranslate">koning</span>, Old Norse <span class="foreign notranslate">konungr</span>, Danish <span class="foreign notranslate">konge</span>, Old Saxon and Old High German <span class="foreign notranslate">kuning</span>, Middle High German <span class="foreign notranslate">künic</span>, German <span class="foreign notranslate">König</span>).</p> <p>This is of uncertain origin. It is possibly related to Old English <span class="foreign notranslate">cynn</span> "family, race" (see <a href="/word/kin" title="Etymology, meaning and definition of kin " class="crossreference notranslate">kin</a>), making a <span class="foreign notranslate">king</span> originally a "leader of the people." Or perhaps it is from a related prehistoric Germanic word meaning "noble birth," making a <span class="foreign notranslate">king</span> etymologically "one who descended from noble birth" (or "the descendant of a divine race"). The sociological and ideological implications render this a topic of much debate. "The exact notional relation of <span class="foreign notranslate">king</span> with <span class="foreign notranslate">kin</span> is undetermined, but the etymological relation is hardly to be doubted" [Century Dictionary].</p> <p>General Germanic, but not attested in Gothic, where <span class="foreign notranslate">þiudans</span> (cognate with Old English <span class="foreign notranslate">þeoden</span> "chief of a tribe, ruler, prince, king") was used. Finnish <span class="foreign notranslate">kuningas</span> "king," Old Church Slavonic <span class="foreign notranslate">kunegu</span> "prince" (Russian <span class="foreign notranslate">knyaz</span>, Bohemian <span class="foreign notranslate">knez</span>), Lithuanian <span class="foreign notranslate">kunigas</span> "clergyman" are forms of this word taken from Germanic. Meaning "one who has superiority in a certain field or class" is from late 14c.</p> <blockquote> As leon is the king of bestes. [John Gower, <span class="foreign notranslate">"Confessio Amantis,"</span> 1390] </blockquote> <p>In Old English, used for chiefs of Anglian and Saxon tribes or clans, of the heads of states they founded, and of the British and Danish chiefs they fought. The word acquired a more imposing quality with the rise of European nation-states, but then it was applied to tribal chiefs in Africa, Asia, North America. The chess piece is so called from c. 1400; the playing card from 1560s; the use in checkers/draughts is first recorded 1820. <span class="foreign notranslate"><strong>Three Kings</strong></span> for the Biblical Wise Men is from c. 1200.</p> <blockquote> [I]t was [Eugene] Field who haunted the declining years of Creston Clarke with his review of that actor's Lear. ... Said he, "Mr. Clarke played the King all the evening as though under constant fear that someone else was about to play the Ace." ["Theatre Magazine," January 1922] </blockquote></section><span></span></div></div></div><div class="word--C9UPa"><div><div class="" style="position:relative"><div id="etymonline_v_51695" style="position:absolute;top:-100px"></div><p title="Origin and meaning of king" class="word__name--TTbAA">king<!-- --> <!-- -->(adj.)</p><section class="word__defination--2q7ZH"><p><a href="/word/king#etymonline_v_1870" title="Etymology, meaning and definition of king " class="crossreference notranslate">king</a> (n.) applied, at first in natural history, to species deemed remarkably big or dominant, such as <span class="foreign notranslate">king crab</span> (1690s); the U.S. <span class="foreign notranslate">king snake</span> (1737), which attacks other snakes and is regarded especially as the enemy of the rattlesnake; <span class="foreign notranslate">king cobra</span> (1888). In marketing, <span class="foreign notranslate">king-size</span> is from 1939, originally of cigarettes. A <span class="foreign notranslate">king-bolt</span> (1825) was the large bolt connecting the fore part of a carriage with the fore-axle.</p> <blockquote> The <span class="foreign notranslate">King-snake</span> is the longest of all other Snakes in these parts, but are not common; the <span class="foreign notranslate">Indians</span> make Girdles and Sashes of their Skins, and it is reported by them, that they are not very venemous, and that no other Snake will meddle with them, which I suppose is the Reason that they are so fond of wearing their Skins about their Bodies as they do. [John Brickell, "The Natural History of North-Carolina," Dublin, 1737] </blockquote></section><span></span></div></div></div><div class="related--32LCi"><h3 class="h3_title" title="words related to king">Entries linking to <i>king</i></h3><div class="related__details--2kumU"><div class="word--C9UPa word_4pc--2SZw8"><div><a class="word__name--TTbAA word_thumbnail__name--1khEg" style="margin-bottom:5px;display:block" title="Origin and meaning of kin" href="/word/kin#etymonline_v_1860">kin<!-- --> <!-- -->(n.)<span class="word_thumbnail__name_icon--2RFFN"><i class="fa fa-chevron-right" style="font-size:16px"></i></span></a><div class="word__etymology_expand--1s7tE"><section class="word__defination--2q7ZH undefined"><div></div><p>c. 1200, from Old English <span class="foreign notranslate">cynn</span> "family; race; kind, sort, rank; nature" (also "gender, sex," a sense obsolete since Middle English), from Proto-Germanic <span class="foreign notranslate">*kunja-</span> "family" (source also of Old Frisian <span class="foreign notranslate">kenn</span>, Old Saxon <span class="foreign notranslate">kunni</span> "kin, kind, race, tribe," Old Norse <span class="foreign notranslate">kyn</span>, Old High German <span class="foreign notranslate">chunni</span> "kin, race;" Danish <span class="foreign notranslate">kjön</span>, Swedish <span class="foreign notranslate">kön</span>, Middle Dutch, Dutch <span class="foreign notranslate">kunne</span> "sex, gender;" Gothic <span class="foreign notranslate">kuni</span> "family, race," Old Norse <span class="foreign notranslate">kundr</span> "son," German <span class="foreign notranslate">Kind</span> "child"), from PIE root <a href="/word/*gene-" title="Etymology, meaning and definition of *gene- " rel="nofollow" class="crossreference notranslate">*gene-</a> "give birth, beget," with derivatives referring to procreation and familial and tribal groups.</p> <blockquote> In the Teutonic word, as in Latin <span class="foreign notranslate">genus</span> and Greek [ <span class="foreign notranslate">genos</span>], three main senses appear, (1) race or stock, (2) class or kind, (3) gender or sex .... [OED] </blockquote> <p>Related to both words <a href="/word/kind" title="Etymology, meaning and definition of kind " class="crossreference notranslate">kind</a> and to <a href="/word/child" title="Etymology, meaning and definition of child " class="crossreference notranslate">child</a>. From 1590s as an adjective, from the noun and as a shortening of <a href="/word/akin" title="Etymology, meaning and definition of akin " class="crossreference notranslate">akin</a>. Legal <span class="foreign notranslate">next of kin</span> (1540s) does not include the <span class="foreign notranslate">widow</span>, "she being specifically provided for by the law as widow" [Century Dictionary], and must be a blood relation of the deceased.</p></section></div></div><div style="clear:both"></div></div><div class="word--C9UPa word_4pc--2SZw8"><div><a class="word__name--TTbAA word_thumbnail__name--1khEg" style="margin-bottom:5px;display:block" title="Origin and meaning of kingdom" href="/word/kingdom#etymonline_v_35390">kingdom<!-- --> <!-- -->(n.)<span class="word_thumbnail__name_icon--2RFFN"><i class="fa fa-chevron-right" style="font-size:16px"></i></span></a><div class="word__etymology_expand--1s7tE"><section class="word__defination--2q7ZH undefined"><div></div><p>Old English <span class="foreign notranslate">cyningdom</span>; see <a href="/word/king#etymonline_v_1870" title="Etymology, meaning and definition of king " class="crossreference notranslate">king</a> (n.) + <a href="/word/-dom" title="Etymology, meaning and definition of -dom " class="crossreference notranslate">-dom</a>. Cognate with Old Saxon <span class="foreign notranslate">kuningdom</span>, Middle Dutch <span class="foreign notranslate">koninghdom</span>, Old Norse <span class="foreign notranslate">konungdomr</span>. The usual Old English word was <span class="foreign notranslate">cynedom</span>; Middle English also had <span class="foreign notranslate">kingrick</span> (for second element, see the first element in <a href="/word/Reichstag" title="Etymology, meaning and definition of Reichstag " class="crossreference notranslate">Reichstag</a>). Meaning "one of the realms of nature" is from 1690s.</p> <p><span class="foreign notranslate">Kingdom-come</span> (n.) "the next world, the hereafter" (1785), originally slang, is from the Lord's Prayer, where it is an archaic simple present subjunctive ("may Thy kingdom come") in reference to the spiritual reign of God or Christ.</p></section></div></div><div style="clear:both"></div></div></div><ul class="related__container--22iKI"><a target="_self" title="Origin and meaning of kingfish" href="/word/kingfish"><li class="related__word--3Si0N">kingfish</li></a><a target="_self" title="Origin and meaning of kingfisher" href="/word/kingfisher"><li class="related__word--3Si0N">kingfisher</li></a><a target="_self" title="Origin and meaning of kingly" href="/word/kingly"><li class="related__word--3Si0N">kingly</li></a><a target="_self" title="Origin and meaning of kingpin" href="/word/kingpin"><li class="related__word--3Si0N">kingpin</li></a><a target="_self" title="Origin and meaning of kingship" href="/word/kingship"><li class="related__word--3Si0N">kingship</li></a><a target="_self" title="Origin and meaning of overking" href="/word/overking"><li class="related__word--3Si0N">overking</li></a><a target="_self" title="Origin and meaning of unkingly" href="/word/unkingly"><li class="related__word--3Si0N">unkingly</li></a><a target="_self" title="Origin and meaning of *gene-" href="/word/*gene-"><li class="related__word--3Si0N">*gene-</li></a><a class="related__more--1gm0U related__word--3Si0N" href="/word/king/related"><li>See all related words (<!-- -->10<!-- -->) <!-- -->></li></a></ul></div><div data-ad-container="true" class="adContainer--6CVz1 vertical" style="margin-top:1em"><span class="adLabel--35hfi">Advertisement</span><ins class="adsbygoogle" data-ad-client="ca-pub-7093273770345366" style="display:block;width:100%" data-ad-slot="8757723469" data-ad-format="auto" data-full-width-responsive="true"></ins></div><div class="ngram--SmXCf"><h3 class="h3_title" title="Trends of king">Trends of <i>king</i></h3><div class="ngram__container--NwjaG" style="height:180px"><canvas id="ngram-chart"></canvas></div><div class="ngram__footer--3-9dX">adapted from books.google.com/ngrams/. 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