important person vs kingpin

kingpin vs important person

important person and kingpin both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
important person	Yes	No	No	No
kingpin	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, kingpin is a hyponym of important person; that is, kingpin is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than important person:

important person: a person whose actions and opinions strongly influence the course of events
kingpin: the most important person in a group or undertaking

Other hyponyms of important person include big cheese, big deal, big enchilada, big fish, big gun, big shot, big wheel, head honcho, celebrity, famous person, behemoth, colossus, giant, heavyweight, titan, elder statesman, eminence grise, Excellency, fixer, influence peddler, heavy hitter, hierarch, high-muck-a-muck, pooh-bah, kingmaker, bigwig, top banana, magnifico, figure, name, public figure, nepotist, policy maker, power broker, powerbroker, sacred cow, sirdar, socialite, sun, dignitary, high-up, high muckamuck, panjandrum, very important person, VIP, worthy.

important person (noun)	kingpin (noun)
a person whose actions and opinions strongly influence the course of events	bolt that provides a steering joint in a motor vehicle
	the front bowling pin in the triangular arrangement of ten pins
	the most important person in a group or undertaking

Difference between important person and kingpin

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