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Definitions for Queen

[1] a female sovereign or monarch.
[2] the wife or consort of a king.
[3] a woman, or something personified as a woman, that is foremost or preeminent in any respect: a movie queen; a beauty queen; Athens, the queen of the Aegean.
[4] Slang : Disparaging and Offensive . a contemptuous term used to refer to a male homosexual, especially one who is flamboyantly campy or effeminate. drag queen.
[5] a playing card bearing a picture of a queen.
[6] Chess . the most powerful piece of either color, moved across any number of empty squares in any direction.
[7] Entomology . a fertile female ant, bee, termite, or wasp.
[8] a word formerly used in communications to represent the letter Q.
[9] to reign as queen.
[10] to behave in an imperious or pretentious manner (usually followed by it ).
[11] Chess . to become promoted to a queen.
[12] Ellery, joint pen name of Manfred Bennington Lee and Frederick Dannay.
[13] a female sovereign who is the official ruler or head of state
[14] the wife or widow of a king
[15] a woman or a thing personified as a woman considered the best or most important of her kind a beauty queen ; the queen of ocean liners
[16] slang an effeminate male homosexual
[17] the only fertile female in a colony of social insects, such as bees, ants, and termites, from the eggs of which the entire colony develops (as modifier ) a queen bee
[18] an adult female cat
[19] one of four playing cards in a pack, one for each suit, bearing the picture of a queen
[20] a chess piece, theoretically the most powerful piece, able to move in a straight line in any direction or diagonally, over any number of squares
[21] chess to promote (a pawn) to a queen when it reaches the eighth rank
[22] (tr) to crown as queen
[23] (intr) informal (of a gay man) to flaunt one's homosexuality
[24] (intr) to reign as queen
[25] queen it (often foll by over) informal to behave in an overbearing manner
[26] Ellery (ˈɛlərɪ). pseudonym of Frederic Dannay (1905–82) and Manfred B. Lee (1905–71), US co-authors of detective novels featuring a sleuth also called Ellery Queen

Words related to Queen

monarch, ruler, empress, regent, consort, matriarch, sovereign, regina, ranee, czarina

Words nearby Queen

quechan, quechua, quechuan, queckenstedt-stookey test, queef, queen, queen anne, queen anne's bounty, queen anne's lace, queen anne's war, queen bee

Origin of Queen

before 900; Middle English quene, quen, Old English cwēn woman, queen; cognate with Old Saxon quān, Old Norse kvān, Gothic qēns < Germanic *kwēni-; akin to Old Irish ben, Greek gynḗ woman, Russian zhená, Sanskrit jani wife

Other words from Queen

queen·less , adjective
queen·like , adjective
un·der·queen , noun

Word origin for Queen

Old English cwēn; related to Old Saxon quān wife, Old Norse kvæn, Gothic qēns wife

Synonyms for Queen

monarch, ruler, consort, empress, regent, female ruler, female sovereign, queen consort, queen dowager, queen mother, wife of a king