"kinglet" meaning in English

See kinglet in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Noun

Forms: kinglets [plural]
Etymology: From king + -let. Etymology templates: {{suffix|en|king|let}} king + -let Head templates: {{en-noun}} kinglet (plural kinglets)
  1. (chiefly derogatory) A petty king; a king ruling over a small or unimportant territory. Tags: derogatory Translations (petty king): reietó [masculine] (Catalan), roitelet [masculine] (French), királyocska (Hungarian), królik [masculine] (Polish), régulo [masculine] (Portuguese), régulo [masculine] (Spanish), царьо́к (carʹók) (Ukrainian)
    Sense id: en-kinglet-en-noun-wS3T1LrO Disambiguation of 'petty king': 88 12 0 0
  2. A young or little king.
    Sense id: en-kinglet-en-noun-pXNOKtKr
  3. A prince.
    Sense id: en-kinglet-en-noun-hf~LMMR6
  4. Any of several birds of the family Regulidae. Categories (lifeform): Perching birds Synonyms: crest Translations (bird of the family Regulidae): reyín (Asturian), reietó [masculine] (Catalan), králíček (Czech), hippiäinen (Finnish), roitelet [masculine] (French), Goldhähnchen [neuter] (German), királyka (Hungarian), mysikrólik [masculine] (Polish), aușel [masculine] (Romanian), корольо́к (korolʹók) (Ukrainian)
    Sense id: en-kinglet-en-noun-87JLpt6D Disambiguation of Perching birds: 15 4 4 76 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English entries with topic categories using raw markup, English terms suffixed with -let Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 35 2 2 62 Disambiguation of English entries with topic categories using raw markup: 20 2 2 77 Disambiguation of English terms suffixed with -let: 28 4 4 64 Disambiguation of 'bird of the family Regulidae': 1 0 0 99
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Related terms: queenlet (english: female kinglet)

Inflected forms

Download JSON data for kinglet meaning in English (4.7kB)

{
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "king",
        "3": "let"
      },
      "expansion": "king + -let",
      "name": "suffix"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From king + -let.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "kinglets",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "kinglet (plural kinglets)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "related": [
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0 0",
      "english": "female kinglet",
      "word": "queenlet"
    }
  ],
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1951, Isaac Asimov, Foundation (1974 Panther Books Ltd publication), part V, chapter 10, pages 160–161",
          "text": "My son hears tales. In the viceroy’s personal entourage, one could scarcely help it. And he tells me of them. Our new viceroy would not refuse the Crown if offered, but he guards his line of retreat. There are stories that, failing Imperial heights, he plans to carve out a new Empire in the Barbarian hinterland. It is said, but I don’t vouch for this, that he has already given one of his daughters as wife to a Kinglet somewhere in the uncharted Periphery."
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A petty king; a king ruling over a small or unimportant territory."
      ],
      "id": "en-kinglet-en-noun-wS3T1LrO",
      "links": [
        [
          "derogatory",
          "derogatory"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(chiefly derogatory) A petty king; a king ruling over a small or unimportant territory."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "derogatory"
      ],
      "translations": [
        {
          "_dis1": "88 12 0 0",
          "code": "ca",
          "lang": "Catalan",
          "sense": "petty king",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "reietó"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "88 12 0 0",
          "code": "fr",
          "lang": "French",
          "sense": "petty king",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "roitelet"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "88 12 0 0",
          "code": "hu",
          "lang": "Hungarian",
          "sense": "petty king",
          "word": "királyocska"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "88 12 0 0",
          "code": "pl",
          "lang": "Polish",
          "sense": "petty king",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "królik"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "88 12 0 0",
          "code": "pt",
          "lang": "Portuguese",
          "sense": "petty king",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "régulo"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "88 12 0 0",
          "code": "es",
          "lang": "Spanish",
          "sense": "petty king",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "régulo"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "88 12 0 0",
          "code": "uk",
          "lang": "Ukrainian",
          "roman": "carʹók",
          "sense": "petty king",
          "word": "царьо́к"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "glosses": [
        "A young or little king."
      ],
      "id": "en-kinglet-en-noun-pXNOKtKr",
      "links": [
        [
          "king",
          "king#English"
        ]
      ]
    },
    {
      "glosses": [
        "A prince."
      ],
      "id": "en-kinglet-en-noun-hf~LMMR6",
      "links": [
        [
          "prince",
          "prince#English"
        ]
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "_dis": "35 2 2 62",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "20 2 2 77",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with topic categories using raw markup",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with topic categories using raw markup",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "28 4 4 64",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English terms suffixed with -let",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "15 4 4 76",
          "kind": "lifeform",
          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "Perching birds",
          "orig": "en:Perching birds",
          "parents": [
            "Birds",
            "Vertebrates",
            "Chordates",
            "Animals",
            "Lifeforms",
            "All topics",
            "Life",
            "Fundamental",
            "Nature"
          ],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Any of several birds of the family Regulidae."
      ],
      "id": "en-kinglet-en-noun-87JLpt6D",
      "links": [
        [
          "bird",
          "bird"
        ],
        [
          "Regulidae",
          "Regulidae#Translingual"
        ]
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "crest"
        }
      ],
      "translations": [
        {
          "_dis1": "1 0 0 99",
          "code": "ast",
          "lang": "Asturian",
          "sense": "bird of the family Regulidae",
          "word": "reyín"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "1 0 0 99",
          "code": "ca",
          "lang": "Catalan",
          "sense": "bird of the family Regulidae",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "reietó"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "1 0 0 99",
          "code": "cs",
          "lang": "Czech",
          "sense": "bird of the family Regulidae",
          "word": "králíček"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "1 0 0 99",
          "code": "fi",
          "lang": "Finnish",
          "sense": "bird of the family Regulidae",
          "word": "hippiäinen"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "1 0 0 99",
          "code": "fr",
          "lang": "French",
          "sense": "bird of the family Regulidae",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "roitelet"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "1 0 0 99",
          "code": "de",
          "lang": "German",
          "sense": "bird of the family Regulidae",
          "tags": [
            "neuter"
          ],
          "word": "Goldhähnchen"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "1 0 0 99",
          "code": "hu",
          "lang": "Hungarian",
          "sense": "bird of the family Regulidae",
          "word": "királyka"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "1 0 0 99",
          "code": "pl",
          "lang": "Polish",
          "sense": "bird of the family Regulidae",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "mysikrólik"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "1 0 0 99",
          "code": "ro",
          "lang": "Romanian",
          "sense": "bird of the family Regulidae",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "aușel"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "1 0 0 99",
          "code": "uk",
          "lang": "Ukrainian",
          "roman": "korolʹók",
          "sense": "bird of the family Regulidae",
          "word": "корольо́к"
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "kinglet"
}
{
  "categories": [
    "English countable nouns",
    "English entries with incorrect language header",
    "English entries with topic categories using raw markup",
    "English lemmas",
    "English nouns",
    "English terms suffixed with -let",
    "en:Perching birds"
  ],
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "king",
        "3": "let"
      },
      "expansion": "king + -let",
      "name": "suffix"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From king + -let.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "kinglets",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "kinglet (plural kinglets)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "related": [
    {
      "english": "female kinglet",
      "word": "queenlet"
    }
  ],
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English derogatory terms"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1951, Isaac Asimov, Foundation (1974 Panther Books Ltd publication), part V, chapter 10, pages 160–161",
          "text": "My son hears tales. In the viceroy’s personal entourage, one could scarcely help it. And he tells me of them. Our new viceroy would not refuse the Crown if offered, but he guards his line of retreat. There are stories that, failing Imperial heights, he plans to carve out a new Empire in the Barbarian hinterland. It is said, but I don’t vouch for this, that he has already given one of his daughters as wife to a Kinglet somewhere in the uncharted Periphery."
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A petty king; a king ruling over a small or unimportant territory."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "derogatory",
          "derogatory"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(chiefly derogatory) A petty king; a king ruling over a small or unimportant territory."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "derogatory"
      ]
    },
    {
      "glosses": [
        "A young or little king."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "king",
          "king#English"
        ]
      ]
    },
    {
      "glosses": [
        "A prince."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "prince",
          "prince#English"
        ]
      ]
    },
    {
      "glosses": [
        "Any of several birds of the family Regulidae."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "bird",
          "bird"
        ],
        [
          "Regulidae",
          "Regulidae#Translingual"
        ]
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "crest"
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
  "translations": [
    {
      "code": "ca",
      "lang": "Catalan",
      "sense": "petty king",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "reietó"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "petty king",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "roitelet"
    },
    {
      "code": "hu",
      "lang": "Hungarian",
      "sense": "petty king",
      "word": "királyocska"
    },
    {
      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "sense": "petty king",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "królik"
    },
    {
      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "petty king",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "régulo"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "petty king",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "régulo"
    },
    {
      "code": "uk",
      "lang": "Ukrainian",
      "roman": "carʹók",
      "sense": "petty king",
      "word": "царьо́к"
    },
    {
      "code": "ast",
      "lang": "Asturian",
      "sense": "bird of the family Regulidae",
      "word": "reyín"
    },
    {
      "code": "ca",
      "lang": "Catalan",
      "sense": "bird of the family Regulidae",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "reietó"
    },
    {
      "code": "cs",
      "lang": "Czech",
      "sense": "bird of the family Regulidae",
      "word": "králíček"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "bird of the family Regulidae",
      "word": "hippiäinen"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "bird of the family Regulidae",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "roitelet"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "bird of the family Regulidae",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "Goldhähnchen"
    },
    {
      "code": "hu",
      "lang": "Hungarian",
      "sense": "bird of the family Regulidae",
      "word": "királyka"
    },
    {
      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "sense": "bird of the family Regulidae",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "mysikrólik"
    },
    {
      "code": "ro",
      "lang": "Romanian",
      "sense": "bird of the family Regulidae",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "aușel"
    },
    {
      "code": "uk",
      "lang": "Ukrainian",
      "roman": "korolʹók",
      "sense": "bird of the family Regulidae",
      "word": "корольо́к"
    }
  ],
  "word": "kinglet"
}

This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-05-01 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-04-21 using wiktextract (f4fd8c9 and c9440ce). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.