Antonyms of noun king

1 of 10 senses of king

Sense 1
king, male monarch, Rex -- (a male sovereign; ruler of a kingdom)
       Antonym of queen (Sense 2)
      => queen, queen regnant, female monarch -- (a female sovereign ruler)

Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun king

10 senses of king

Sense 1
king, male monarch, Rex -- (a male sovereign; ruler of a kingdom)
       => sovereign, crowned head, monarch -- (a nation's ruler or head of state usually by hereditary right)

Sense 2
king, queen, world-beater -- (a competitor who holds a preeminent position)
       => rival, challenger, competitor, competition, contender -- (the contestant you hope to defeat; "he had respect for his rivals"; "he wanted to know what the competition was doing")

Sense 3
baron, big businessman, business leader, king, magnate, mogul, power, top executive, tycoon -- (a very wealthy or powerful businessman; "an oil baron")
       => businessman, man of affairs -- (a person engaged in commercial or industrial business (especially an owner or executive))

Sense 4
king -- (preeminence in a particular category or group or field; "the lion is the king of beasts")
       => eminence, distinction, preeminence, note -- (high status importance owing to marked superiority; "a scholar of great eminence")

Sense 5
King, Billie Jean King, Billie Jean Moffitt King -- (United States woman tennis player (born in 1943))
       INSTANCE OF=> tennis player -- (an athlete who plays tennis)

Sense 6
King, B. B. King, Riley B King -- (United States guitar player and singer of the blues (born in 1925))
       INSTANCE OF=> singer, vocalist, vocalizer, vocaliser -- (a person who sings)
       INSTANCE OF=> guitarist, guitar player -- (a musician who plays the guitar)

Sense 7
King, Martin Luther King, Martin Luther King Jr. -- (United States charismatic civil rights leader and Baptist minister who campaigned against the segregation of Blacks (1929-1968))
       INSTANCE OF=> clergyman, reverend, man of the cloth -- (a member of the clergy and a spiritual leader of the Christian Church)
       INSTANCE OF=> civil rights leader, civil rights worker, civil rights activist -- (a leader of the political movement dedicated to securing equal opportunity for members of minority groups)

Sense 8
king -- (a checker that has been moved to the opponent's first row where it is promoted to a piece that is free to move either forward or backward)
       => checker, chequer -- (one of the flat round pieces used in playing the game of checkers)

Sense 9
king -- (one of the four playing cards in a deck bearing the picture of a king)
       => face card, picture card, court card -- (one of the twelve cards in a deck bearing a picture of a face)

Sense 10
king -- ((chess) the weakest but the most important piece)
       => chessman, chess piece -- (any of 16 white and 16 black pieces used in playing the game of chess)