(king) noun
1. The sovereign male ruler of a kingdom. ♦ Collateral adjective: regal.
2. One who or that which is preeminent among others of the same kind or class; a leader; chief; head.
3. A person or thing of great importance, position, or power: a king of finance.
4. A playing card bearing the semblance of a king.
5. In chess, the principal piece; in checkers, a piece that has reached the adversary's king row, and may then be moved in any direction. [OE cyng]

(king), Charles Glen,
1878–1956, U.S. chemist.
—Ernest Joseph,
1878–1956, U.S. admiral; Chief of Naval Operations in World War II.
—Martin Luther, Jr.,
1929–1968, U.S. leader of nonviolent civil rights movement for Negroes; winner of Nobel peace prize in 1964; assassinated.
—Rufus,
1775–1827, U.S. statesman and diplomat.
—William Lyon Mackenzie,
1874–1950, Canadian premier, 1921–26, 1926–1930, 1935–48.