English > Rex: 1 sense > noun 1, person | Meaning | A male sovereign; ruler of a kingdom / kingdom. |
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| Synonyms | king, male monarch |
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| Instances | Ahab | According to the Old Testament he was a pagan king of Israel and husband of Jezebel (9th century BC) |
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| Akhenaton, Akhenaten, Ikhanaton, Amenhotep IV | 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) |
| Alfred, Alfred the Great | king of Wessex |
| Artaxerxes I, Artaxerxes | king of Persia who sanctioned the practice of Judaism in Jerusalem (?-424 BC) |
| Artaxerxes II, Artaxerxes | king of Persia who subdued / 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, Attila the Hun, Scourge of God, Scourge of the Gods | king of the Huns |
| Bruce, Robert the Bruce, Robert I | King of Scotland from 1306 to 1329 |
| Carl XVI Gustav, Carl XVI Gustaf | 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 |
| 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 Persian 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 |
| David | (Old Testament) the 2nd king of the Israelites / Israelites |
| Edmund I | king of the English who succeeded Athelstan |
| Edmund II, Edmund Ironside | king of the English who led resistance / 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 |
| Ethelred, Ethelred I | king of Wessex and Kent and elder brother of Alfred |
| Ethelred, Ethelred II, Ethelred the Unready | king of the English who succeeded to the throne after his half-brother Edward the Martyr was murdered |
| Fahd, Fahd ibn Abdel Aziz al-Saud | king of Saudi Arabia from 1982 to 2005 (1923-2005) |
| 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) |
| Ferdinand, King Ferdinand, Ferdinand of Aragon, Ferdinand V, Ferdinand the Catholic | The king of Castile and Aragon who ruled jointly with his wife Isabella |
| Ferdinand I, Ferdinand the Great | king of Castile and Leon who achieved control of the Moorish kings of Saragossa and Seville and Toledo (1016-1065) |
| Frederick I | son of Frederick William who in 1701 became the first king of Prussia (1657-1713) |
| Frederick II, Frederick the Great | king of Prussia from 1740 to 1786 |
| Frederick William I | son of Frederick I who became king of Prussia in 1713 |
| Frederick William II | king of Prussia who became involved in a costly war with France (1744-1797) |
| Frederick William III | king of Prussia who became involved in the Napoleonic Wars (1770-1840) |
| Frederick William IV | king of Prussia who violently suppressed democratic movements (1795-1865) |
| Genseric, Gaiseric | king of the Vandals who seized Roman lands and invaded North Africa and sacked Rome (428-477) |
| Gilgamesh | A legendary Sumerian king who was the hero of an epic collection of mythic stories |
| Gordius | legendary king of ancient Phrygia who was said to be responsible for the Gordian knot |
| Gustavus, Gustavus I | king of Sweden who established Lutheranism as the state religion (1496-1560) |
| Gustavus, Gustavus II, Gustavus Adolphus | king of Sweden whose victories in battle made Sweden a European power |
| Gustavus, Gustavus III | king of Sweden who increased the royal power and waged an unpopular war against Russia (1746-1792) |
| Gustavus, Gustavus IV | king of Sweden whose losses to Napoleon I led to his being deposed in 1809 (1778-1837) |
| Gustavus, Gustavus V | king of Sweden who kept Sweden neutral during both World War I and II (1858-1950) |
| Gustavus, Gustavus VI | The last king of Sweden to have any real political power (1882-1973) |
| Hammurabi, Hammurapi | Babylonian king who codified the laws of Sumer and Mesopotamia (died 1750 BC) |
| Herod, Herod the Great | king of Judea who (according to the New Testament) tried to kill Jesus by ordering the death of all children under age two in Bethlehem (73-4 BC) |
| Hezekiah, Ezekias | (Old Testament) king of Judah who abolished idolatry (715-687 BC) |
| Hussein, Husain, Husayn, ibn Talal Hussein, King Hussein | king of Jordan credited with creating stability at home and seeking peace with Israel (1935-1999) |
| James, James IV | A Stuart king of Scotland who married a daughter of Henry VII |
| Jeroboam, Jeroboam I | (Old Testament) first king of the northern kingdom of Israel who led Israel into sin (10th century BC) |
| Juan Carlos, Juan Carlos Victor Maria de Borbon y Borbon | king of Spain since 1975 (born in 1938) |
| Kamehameha I, Kamehameha the Great | Hawaiian king who united the islands under his rule (1758-1819) |
| Leonidas | king of Sparta and hero of the battle of Thermopylae where he was killed by the Persians (died in 480 BC) |
| Macbeth | king of Scotland (died in 1057) |
| Messiah | The awaited king of the Jews |
| Mithridates, Mithridates VI, Mithridates the Great | ancient king of Pontus who expanded his kingdom by defeating the Romans but was later driven out by Pompey (132-63 BC) |
| Nebuchadnezzar, Nebuchadnezzar II, Nebuchadrezzar, Nebuchadrezzar II | (Old Testament) king of Chaldea who captured and destroyed Jerusalem and exiled the Israelites / Israelites to Babylonia (630?-562 BC) |
| Olaf II, Olav II, Saint Olaf, Saint Olav, St. Olaf, St. Olav | King and patron saint of Norway (995-1030) |
| Pepin, Pepin III, Pepin the Short | king of the Franks and father of Charlemagne who defended papal interests / interests and founded the Carolingian dynasty in 751 (714-768) |
| Philip II, Philip II of Spain | king of Spain and Portugal and husband of Mary I |
| Philip II, Philip II of Macedon | king of ancient Macedonia and father of Alexander the Great (382-336 BC) |
| Philip II, Philip Augustus | son of Louis VII whose reign as king of France saw wars with the English that regained control of Normandy and Anjou and most of Poitou (1165-1223) |
| Philip V | king of ancient Macedonia whose confrontations with the Romans led to his defeat and his loss of control over Greece |
| Philip VI, Philip of Valois | king of France who founded the Valois dynasty |
| Ptolemy I | The king of Egypt who founded the Macedonian dynasty in Egypt |
| Ptolemy II | son of Ptolemy I and king of Egypt who was said to be responsible for the Septuagint (circa 309-247 BC) |
| Pyrrhus | king of Epirus |
| Rameses, Ramesses, Ramses | Any of 12 kings of ancient Egypt between 1315 and 1090 BC |
| Saul | (Old Testament) the first king of the Israelites / Israelites who defended Israel against many enemies (especially the Philistines) |
| Sennacherib | king of Assyria who invaded Judea twice and defeated Babylon and rebuilt Nineveh after it had been destroyed by Babylonians (died in 681 BC) |
| Solomon | (Old Testament) son of David and king of Israel noted for his wisdom / wisdom / wisdom / wisdom (10th century BC) |
| Tarquin, Tarquin the Proud, Tarquinius, Tarquinius Superbus, Lucius Tarquinius Superbus | According to legend, the seventh and last Etruscan king of Rome who was expelled for his cruelty (reigned from 534 to 510 BC) |
| Victor Emanuel II | king of Italy who completed the unification of Italy by acquiring Venice and Rome (1820-1878) |
| Victor Emanuel III | king of Italy who appointed Mussolini prime minister |
| Xerxes I, Xerxes the Great | king of Persia who led a vast army against Greece and won the battle of Thermopylae but was eventually defeated (519-465 BC) |
| Member of | royalty, royal family, royal line, royal house | royal persons collectively |
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| Narrower | King of England, King of Great Britain | The sovereign ruler of England |
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| King of France | The sovereign ruler of France |
| King of the Germans | The sovereign ruler of the Germans |
| Broader | sovereign, crowned head, monarch | A nation's ruler or head of state usually by hereditary right |
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| Opposite | queen, queen regnant, female monarch | A female sovereign ruler |
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| Spanish | monarca, rey |
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| Catalan | monarca, rei |
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