high king
Word Rarity
Common
Frequency: Zipf frequency 5.07 in modern English
20
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
3
Syllables
5
Unique Chars
Meaning
name
The king of kings: God; often, Jesus Christ.
Example Sentences
- "[…] is eighth in descent from Aedh Slaine, Highking of Ireland, in the Southern Uí Néill pedigrees."
- "Idris, the first High King, had silvery eyes in a face lined with years of bright laughter and unspeakable sorrow."
- "This time it was Roderic O'Connor, the high-king of all Ireland, with sixty thousand men levied from all the clans of the island. They encamped around Dublin in four separate bodies – the high-king and his men of Connaught at Castle Knock; [...]"
- "[…] And health to thee, O high-king, after I am gone, and to all the nobles of the Greeks."
Etymology
From Middle English *heah-kyng, from Old English hēahcyning (“high-king; God”), equivalent to high + king.
Origin
Word Breakdown
- Root: *heah-kyng, hēahcyning