emperor vs king

emperor

noun
  • The male monarch or ruler of an empire. 

  • A large, relatively valuable marble in children's games. 

  • Any of various butterflies of the subfamily Charaxinae. 

  • Specifically, the ruler of the Holy Roman Empire; the world-monarch. 

  • Any of various large dragonflies of the cosmopolitan genus Anax. 

  • An emperor penguin. 

  • The fourth trump or major arcana card of the tarot deck. 

  • Any monarch ruling an empire, irrespective of gender, with "empress" contrasting to mean the consort of an emperor. 

  • Any fish of the family Lethrinidae. 

king

noun
  • A male monarch; a man who heads a monarchy. If it is an absolute monarchy, then he is the supreme ruler of his nation. 

  • Something that has a preeminent position. 

  • The central pin or skittle in bowling games. 

  • A playing card with the letter "K" and the image of a king on it, the thirteenth card in a given suit. 

  • A male dragonfly; a drake. 

  • A king skin. 

  • A powerful or majorly influential person. 

  • 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. 

  • 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. 

  • A king-sized bed. 

  • The monarch with the most power and authority in a monarchy, regardless of sex. 

  • A vertex in a directed graph which can reach every other vertex via a path with a length of at most 2. 

verb
  • To assume or pretend preeminence (over); to lord it over. 

  • To rule over as king. 

  • To promote a piece of draughts/checkers that has traversed the board to the opposite side, that piece subsequently being permitted to move backwards as well as forwards. 

  • To crown king, to make (a person) king. 

  • To perform the duties of a king. 

  • To dress and perform as a drag king. 

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