noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
crown sb (as) king/queen etc
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In 1896 Nicholas was crowned as Tsar.
King's Counsel
King's English
king's evidence
weak leader/ruler/king etc
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a weak and ineffective president
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
new
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The new king , I suppose, if you can be king without a land.
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Some one new is deemed king each year and often sacrificed after that.
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Courtiers in London, angry at his arrogant seizure of responsibility for notifying the new king , blocked various royal appointments.
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And behind it, the new king hides its criminal face and its bloody hands.
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Word of the arrival in London of the new king was brought to her by Prince Richard.
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The new king can not deal with the soul, the fire, and the unpredictability of human justice.
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Each new king presented himself here with his various dignitaries for a robing ceremony before proceeding to the High Altar.
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The king was dead, but there was no new king.
young
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What was needed was some one outside and above the territorial nexus, requirements fulfilled only by the young king .
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His greatest patron was a spendthrift young king who built too many castles and may have been nuts.
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The populace surged around them, noisy and enthusiastic at the sight of the young king .
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The young king was ill, it was claimed, was nursing an inflammation of the lungs.
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She went there when her romance with the young king was quashed for political reasons.
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Later on a story was told of his early years as a young and untried king .
■ VERB
become
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The reign of Wulfhere Wulfhere was probably in his mid-teens when he became king three years after the battle of the Winwaed.
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His creation became king of wrap.
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It probably also explains why the brothers Alexander and Richard Quadring entered his household after he became king .
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Zeus became the third king , after Ouranos and Kronos.
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Hours before the announcement, large wagers were placed in favour of his son William becoming next king .
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Without us you have become kings !
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Sigismund converted to catholicism before becoming king in 516.
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By a smaller margin, the audience said that Prince Charles should not become king .
crown
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The Lombards incorporated this into an iron crown which was used to crown the kings of Lombardy.
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These Wild Things recognize Max as one of their own, at least in spirit, and crown him their king .
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To crown it all their king , John, was captured in battle.
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He succeeded so well that the people crowned him king of this whole region!
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
fit for a king
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That dinner was fit for a king.
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And that one problem was that there was no toilet paper fit for a king in the whole kingdom by the sea.
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I know of places suitable, lodgings fit for a king, if only there were room.
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It was a meal fit for a king, or even for two helicopter pilots fresh from three days of nonstop flying.
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That simple repast was fit for a king.
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The table was laid out fit for a king, all gleaming silver and twinkling crystal.
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They are gifts fit for a king, and so they are meant to be.
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This looks like a meal fit for a king.
long live the King/Queen! etc
the King's English
the uncrowned king/queen of sth
turn King's evidence
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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King Juan Carlos of Spain
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a portrait of King George VI
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the King of Morocco