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The reigning king.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: formal
Qualifier: usually italicized
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A male given name from Latin coined in the nineteenth century from Latin rex "king," rarely given today.
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name
A popular name for a dog.
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name
An unincorporated community in Clayton County, Georgia, United States.
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Synonyms: Hollingsworth
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name
A census-designated place in Robeson County, North Carolina, United States.
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noun
A king, particularly in ancient Rome.
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noun
An animal which has a genetic recessive variation that causes the guard hairs to be very short or fully lacking.
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verb
To breed (an animal) to have this kind of hair.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: transitive
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noun
a male sovereign; ruler of a kingdom
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Synonyms: king, male monarch
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Broader terms: sovereign, crowned head, monarch
Narrower terms: King of England, King of Great Britain, King of France, King of the Germans, Messiah, Ahab, Akhenaton, Akhenaten, Ikhanaton, Amenhotep IV, Alaric, Alfred, Alfred the Great, Artaxerxes I, Artaxerxes, Artaxerxes II, Ashurbanipal, Assurbanipal, Asurbanipal, Athelstan, Attila, Attila the Hun, Scourge of God, Scourge of the Gods, Bruce, Robert the Bruce, Robert I, Carl XVI Gustav, Carl XVI Gustaf, Clovis, Clovis I, Croesus, Cyrus II, Cyrus the Elder, Cyrus the Great, Darius I, Darius the Great, Darius III, David, Edmund I, Edmund II, Edmund Ironside, Edward the Elder, Edwin, Egbert, Ethelbert, Ethelred, Ethelred I, Ethelred II, Ethelred the Unready, Fahd, Fahd ibn Abdel Aziz al-Saud, Faisal, Faisal ibn Abdel Aziz al-Saud, Farouk I, Faruk I, Ferdinand I, Ferdinand the Great, Ferdinand, King Ferdinand, Ferdinand of Aragon, Ferdinand V, Ferdinand the Catholic, Frederick I, Frederick II, Frederick the Great, Frederick William I, Frederick William II, Frederick William III, Frederick William IV, Genseric, Gaiseric, Gilgamesh, Gordius, Gustavus, Gustavus I, Gustavus II, Gustavus Adolphus, Gustavus III, Gustavus IV, Gustavus V, Gustavus VI, Hammurabi, Hammurapi, Herod, Herod the Great, Hezekiah, Ezekias, Hussein, Husain, Husayn, ibn Talal Hussein, King Hussein, James, James IV, Jeroboam, Jeroboam I, Juan Carlos, Juan Carlos Victor Maria de Borbon y Borbon, Kamehameha I, Kamehameha the Great, Leonidas, Macbeth, Mithridates, Mithridates VI, Mithridates the Great, Nebuchadnezzar, Nebuchadnezzar II, Nebuchadrezzar, Nebuchadrezzar II, Olaf II, Olav II, Saint Olaf, Saint Olav, St. Olaf, St. Olav, Pepin, Pepin III, Pepin the Short, Philip II, Philip II of Spain, Philip II of Macedon, Philip Augustus, Philip V, Philip VI, Philip of Valois, Ptolemy I, Ptolemy II, Pyrrhus, Rameses, Ramesses, Ramses, Saul, Sennacherib, Solomon, Tarquin, Tarquin the Proud, Tarquinius, Tarquinius Superbus, Lucius Tarquinius Superbus, Victor Emanuel II, Victor Emanuel III, Xerxes I, Xerxes the Great
History
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *h3reǵ- Proto-Indo-European *-s Proto-Indo-European *h3rḗǵs Proto-Italic *rēks Latin rēxbor. English Rex From Latin rēx (“king”). Doublet of rajah and roy.
From Latin rēx (“king”), referring originally to rabbits of the Belgian "castorrex" breed, so named because their fur was similar to that of beavers. Entered English around 1920. Doublet of rajah and roy.
