Meanings
- A personification of winter.
[…] but here Midsummer and Winter were hand in hand—the icy throne of King Winter, and the green, flowery footstool of Queen Summer, being literally in contact!
1852, William Hurton, A Voyage from Leith to Lapland: Or, Pictures of Scandinavia in 1850, page 2611 more example
Hard would it have been for the voyagers on the Pacific Ocean to realize that summer evening, as the stately ship glided swiftly and noiselessly over the waters, that old King Winter was then reigning in all his glory over the shores which they had quitted not two months before.
1859, Marion E. Weir, Patience to Work and Patience to Wait, page 110
Origin
- NorwegianKong Vinter
- EnglishKing Winter
Likely from Norwegian Kong Vinter
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King Winter. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/King%20Winter
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