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a male sovereign or monarch; a man who holds by life tenure, and usually by hereditary right, the chief authority over a country and people.

(initial capital letter)��God or Christ.

a person or thing preeminent in its class.

a playing card bearing a picture of a king.

Chess.��the chief piece of each color, whose checkmating is the object of the game; moved one square at a time in any direction.

Checkers.��a piece that has been moved entirely across the board and has been crowned, thus allowing it to be moved in any direction.

Entomology.��a fertile male termite.

a word formerly used in communications to represent the letter K.

to make a king of; cause to be or become a king; crown.

Informal.��to design or make (a product) king-size.

Billie Jean (Moffitt) born 1943, U.S. tennis player.

Clarence, 1842–1901, U.S. geologist and cartographer.

Coretta Scott 1927–2006, U.S. civil rights leader (widow of Martin Luther King, Jr.)

Ernest Joseph, 1878–1956, U.S. naval officer.

Martin Luther, Jr., MLK, 1929–68, U.S. Baptist minister: civil rights leader; Nobel Peace Prize 1964.

Maxine Micki, born 1944, U.S. springboard and platform diver.

Richard, 1825–85, U.S. rancher and steamboat operator.

Riley B. B.B., 1925–2015, U.S. blues singer and guitarist.

Rufus, 1755–1827, U.S. political leader and statesman.

Stephen, born 1947, U.S. novelist and short-story writer.

William Lyon Mackenzie, 1874–1950, Canadian statesman: prime minister 1921–26, 1926–30, 1935–48.

William Rufus DeVane 1786–1853, vice president of the U.S. 1853.