n. 国王；最有势力者；王棋
vi. 统治；做国王
vt. 立…为王
adj. 主要的，最重要的，最大的
n. (King)人名；(德、英、葡、捷、西)金；(中)金(普通话·威妥玛)；(泰)京；(东南亚国家华语)京
king 国王，君主，重要的，大的
缩写自古英语cyning,国王，君主，统治者，来自Proto-Germanic*kuningaz,对应于kin,家族，种族，氏族，-ing,集合名词后缀。即一个家族或氏族的统领，后用于指国王，君主。引申词义关键的，重要的，大的等。比较其与emperor的区别。
As leon is the king of bestes. [John Gower, "Confessio Amantis," 1390]In Old English, used for names of chiefs of Anglian and Saxon tribes or clans, then of the states they founded. Also extended to British and Danish chiefs they fought. The chess piece so called from early 15c.; the playing card from 1560s; use in checkers/draughts first recorded 1820. Applied in nature to species deemed remarkably big or dominant (such as king crab, 1690s). In marketing, king-size is from 1939, originally of cigarettes.
[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]