From king + maker, originally used in the 16th century in “Warwick the <span class="searchmatch">Kingmaker</span>”, an epithet of Richard Neville, 16th Earl of Warwick (1428–1471), a key...
<span class="searchmatch">kingmakers</span> plural of <span class="searchmatch">kingmaker</span>...
koningmaker m (plural koningmakers, diminutive koningmakertje n, feminine koningmaakster) <span class="searchmatch">kingmaker</span>...
compare <span class="searchmatch">kingmaker</span>. queenmaker (plural queenmakers) Someone who has strong influence over the choice of a female leader. Coordinate term: <span class="searchmatch">kingmaker</span> 2008 April...
prefix”) + fi (“to put”) + ọba (“monarch”) + jẹ (“to reign”). IPA(key): /ā.fɔ̄.bā.d͡ʒɛ̄/ afọbajẹ <span class="searchmatch">kingmaker</span>; a chief of a council that appoint monarchs...
ku‧nin‧kaan‧te‧ki‧jä Hyphenation(key): ku‧ninkaan‧teki‧jä kuninkaantekijä <span class="searchmatch">kingmaker</span> “kuninkaantekijä”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary...
figuratively) To help a candidate to the succession of a monarchy (as a <span class="searchmatch">kingmaker</span> does), or by extension in any other major organisation. Antonym: dethrone...
Back-formation from <span class="searchmatch">kingmaker</span>. kingmake (third-person singular simple present kingmakes, present participle kingmaking, simple past and past participle...
billman ; while the musketeer wore a morion […] 2014, Toby Clements, <span class="searchmatch">Kingmaker</span>: Winter Pilgrims: (Book 1): He is staggering as the other billmen lash...