Queen

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  • noun. The wife or widow of a king.
  • noun. A woman sovereign.
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  • noun. A woman considered preeminent in a particular field.
  • noun. A woman chosen as the winner of a contest or the honorary head of an event.
  • noun. Something having eminence or supremacy in a given domain and personified as a woman.
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  • noun. The most powerful chess piece, able to move in any direction over any number of empty squares in a straight line.
  • noun. A playing card bearing the figure of a queen, ranking above the jack and below the king.
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  • noun. The sole reproductive female, or one of several such females, in a colony of eusocial insects, such as bees, wasps, ants, or termites.
  • noun. The reproductive female in a colony of naked mole rats.
  • noun. A mature female cat, especially one kept for breeding purposes.
  • noun. Used as a disparaging term for a gay man.
  • noun. A queen-size bed.
  • intransitive verb. To make (a woman) a queen.
  • intransitive verb. To raise (a pawn) to queen in chess.
  • intransitive verb. To become a queen in chess.
  • idiom. (queen it) To act like a queen; domineer.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • To play the queen; act the part or character of a queen; domineer: with an indefinite it.
  • In chess, to make a queen of: said of a pawn on its reaching the eighth square.
  • In apiculture, to supply with a queen; introduce a queen to: said of a colony of bees.
  • noun. Same as quin.
  • noun. Same as queen-wasp.
  • noun. A female eat. In modern catteries the name is given only to female cats used for careful and scientific breeding. Also called queen-cat.
  • noun. The female of a termite or white ant. See king, 6.
  • noun. The consort of a king.
  • noun. A woman who is the sovereign of a realm; a female sovereign.
  • noun. Figuratively, a woman who is chief or preeminent among others; one who presides: as, queen of beauty; queen of the May (see Mayqueen).
  • noun. Hence, anything personified as chief or greatest, when considered as possessing female attributes.
  • noun. In entomology, a queen bee or queen ant.
  • noun. A playing-card on which a queen is depicted.
  • noun. In chess, the piece which is by far the most powerful of all for attack. See chess. Abbreviated Q.
  • noun. A variety of roofing-slate, measuring 3 feet long and 2 feet wide. Compare duchess, 2.
  • noun. Among Roman Catholics, a title given to the Virgin Mary.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • intransitive verb. To act the part of a queen.
  • intransitive verb. To make a queen (or other piece, at the player's discretion) of by moving it to the eighth row.
  • noun. The wife of a king.
  • noun. A woman who is the sovereign of a kingdom; a female monarch
  • noun. A woman eminent in power or attractions; the highest of her kind
  • noun. The fertile, or fully developed, female of social bees, ants, and termites.
  • noun. The most powerful, and except the king the most important, piece in a set of chessmen.
  • noun. A playing card bearing the picture of a queen.
  • noun. A kind of apple; a queening.
  • noun. a female bee, especially the female of the honeybee. See Honeybee.
  • noun. a very large West Indian cameo conch (Cassis cameo). It is much used for making cameos.
  • noun. the wife of a reigning king.
  • noun. the widow of a king.
  • noun. formerly a revenue of the queen consort of England, arising from gifts, fines, etc.
  • Word Usage
    "The fact that the queen is actually the designer alter-ego and the hero her girlfriend just add more to the mix."
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    queened  queening  
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    Aileen  Amin  Arleen  Augustin  Bean  
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    God  captain  duke  emperor  hero  
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    Kaiserin  ace  ant  army ant  auntie  
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    queened  queening  queens