royal family, royal house, royal line, royalty - royal persons collectively; "the wedding was attended by royalty"

Messiah - the awaited king of the Jews; the promised and expected deliverer of the Jewish people

King of England, King of Great Britain - the sovereign ruler of England

King of France - the sovereign ruler of France

crowned head, monarch, sovereign - a nation's ruler or head of state usually by hereditary right

Ahab - according to the Old Testament he was a pagan king of Israel and husband of Jezebel (9th century BC)

Akhenaten, Akhenaton, Amenhotep IV, Ikhanaton - early ruler of Egypt who rejected the old gods and replaced them with sun worship (died in 1358 BC)

Alaric - king of the Visigoths who captured Rome in 410 (370-410)

AElfred, Alfred, Alfred the Great - king of Wessex; defeated the Danes and encouraged writing in English (849-899)

Artaxerxes I, Artaxerxes - king of Persia who sanctioned the practice of Judaism in Jerusalem (?-424 BC)

Artaxerxes, Artaxerxes II - king of Persia who subdued numerous revolutions and made peace with Sparta (?-359 BC)

Ashurbanipal, Assurbanipal, Asurbanipal - king of Assyria who built a magnificent palace and library at Nineveh (668-627 BC)

Athelstan - the first Saxon ruler who extended his kingdom to include nearly all of England (895-939)

Attila, Scourge of God, Scourge of the Gods - king of the Huns; the most successful barbarian invader of the Roman Empire (406-453)

Robert I, Robert the Bruce, Bruce - King of Scotland from 1306 to 1329; defeated the English army under Edward II at Bannockburn and gained recognition of Scottish independence (1274-1329)

Carl XVI Gustaf, Carl XVI Gustav - king of Sweden since 1973 (born 1946)

Clovis, Clovis I - king of the Franks who unified Gaul and established his capital at Paris and founded the Frankish monarchy; his name was rendered as Gallic `Louis' (466-511)

Croesus - last king of Lydia (died in 546 BC)

Cyrus II, Cyrus the Elder, Cyrus the Great - king of Persia and founder of the Persian empire (circa 600-529 BC)

Darius I, Darius the Great - king of Persia who expanded the empire and invaded Greece but was defeated at the Battle of Marathon (550-486 BC)

Darius III - king of Persia who was defeated by Alexander the Great; his murder effectively ended the Persian Empire (died in 330 BC)

David - (Old Testament) the 2nd king of the Israelites; as a young shepherd he fought Goliath (a giant Philistine warrior) and killed him by hitting him in the head with a stone flung from a sling; he united Israel with Jerusalem as its capital; many of the Psalms are attributed to David (circa 1000-962 BC)

Edmund I - king of the English who succeeded Athelstan; he drove out the Danes and made peace with Scotland (921-946)

Edmund II, Edmund Ironside - king of the English who led resistance to Canute but was defeated and forced to divide the kingdom with Canute (980-1016)

Edward the Elder - king of Wessex whose military success against the Danes made it possible for his son Athelstan to become the first king of all England (870-924)

Edwin - king of Northumbria who was converted to Christianity (585-633)

Egbert - king of Wessex whose military victories made Wessex the most powerful kingdom in England (died in 839)

Ethelbert - Anglo-Saxon king of Kent who was converted to Christianity by Saint Augustine; codified English law (552-616)

Ethelred I, Ethelred - king of Wessex and Kent and elder brother of Alfred; Alfred joined Ethelred's battle against the invading Danes and succeeded him on his death (died in 871)

Ethelred, Ethelred II, Ethelred the Unready - king of the English who succeeded to the throne after his half-brother Edward the Martyr was murdered; he struggled unsuccessfully against the invading Danes (969-1016)

Fahd, Fahd ibn Abdel Aziz al-Saud - king of Saudi Arabia since 1982 (born in 1922)

Faisal, Faisal ibn Abdel Aziz al-Saud - king of Saudi Arabia from 1964 to 1975 (1906-1975)

Farouk I, Faruk I - king of Egypt who in 1952 was ousted by a military coup d'etat (1920-1965)

challenger, competitor, contender, rival, competition - the contestant you hope to defeat; "he had respect for his rivals"; "he wanted to know what the competition was doing"

businessman, man of affairs - a person engaged in commercial or industrial business (especially an owner or executive)

oil tycoon - a powerful person in the oil business

eminence, preeminence, distinction, note - high status importance owing to marked superiority; "a scholar of great eminence"

tennis player - an athlete who plays tennis

guitar player, guitarist - a musician who plays the guitar

singer, vocalist, vocalizer, vocaliser - a person who sings

civil rights activist, civil rights leader, civil rights worker - a leader of the political movement dedicated to securing equal opportunity for members of minority groups

clergyman, man of the cloth, reverend - a member of the clergy and a spiritual leader of the Christian Church

checkers, draughts - a checkerboard game for two players who each have 12 pieces; the object is to jump over and so capture the opponent's pieces

checker - one of the flat round pieces used in playing checkers

court card, face card, picture card - one of the twelve cards in a deck bearing a picture of a face

chess game, chess - a game for two players who move their 16 pieces according to specific rules; the object is to checkmate the opponent's king

chess piece, chessman - any of 16 white and 16 black pieces used in playing the game of chess