KING ARTHUR

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• KING ARTHUR (noun)
  The noun KING ARTHUR has 1 sense:

1. a legendary king of the Britons (possibly based on a historical figure in the 6th century but the story has been retold too many times to be sure); said to have led the Knights of the Round Table at Camelot

  Familiarity information: KING ARTHUR used as a noun is very rare.

• KING ARTHUR (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A legendary king of the Britons (possibly based on a historical figure in the 6th century but the story has been retold too many times to be sure); said to have led the Knights of the Round Table at Camelot

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

Arthur; King Arthur

Instance hypernyms:

character; fictional character; fictitious character (an imaginary person represented in a work of fiction (play or film or story))

 Context examples 

King Arthur and all his table could not have done more.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

He tried to make us act plays and to enter into masquerades, in which the characters were drawn from the heroes of Roncesvalles, of the Round Table of King Arthur, and the chivalrous train who shed their blood to redeem the holy sepulchre from the hands of the infidels.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)