kingmaking

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noun

The ceremony of crowning a king, or any similar ceremony of endowing a person with high office.

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Meanings

nounkingmaking (usually uncountable, plural kingmakings)

plural kingmakings

  1. uncountableusuallyThe ceremony of crowning a king, or any similar ceremony of endowing a person with high office.
  2. uncountableusuallyIn games, a strategy or design where one player (often the losing one) essentially gets to pick who wins.

    I think that V:TES is a multiplayer game, and multiplayer games have the kingmaking problem no matter much you try to tweak the rules.

    2008 February 5, ben...@gmail.com, “New final ranking system is crap”, in rec.games.trading-cards.jyhad (Usenet)
verb
  1. gerundparticiplepresentpresent participle and gerund of kingmake

Origin

From king + making.

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APA

kingmaking. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/kingmaking

MLA

“kingmaking.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/kingmaking. Accessed November 2, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “kingmaking,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/kingmaking.

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