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Definitions for Queening

[1] promotion(def 6) .
[2] a female sovereign or monarch.
[3] the wife or consort of a king.
[4] 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.
[5] Slang : Disparaging and Offensive . a contemptuous term used to refer to a male homosexual, especially one who is flamboyantly campy or effeminate. drag queen.
[6] a playing card bearing a picture of a queen.
[7] Chess . the most powerful piece of either color, moved across any number of empty squares in any direction.
[8] Entomology . a fertile female ant, bee, termite, or wasp.
[9] a word formerly used in communications to represent the letter Q.
[10] to reign as queen.
[11] to behave in an imperious or pretentious manner (usually followed by it ).
[12] Chess . to become promoted to a queen.
[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 nearby Queening

queencake, queendom, queenfish, queenhood, queenie, queening, queenly, queens, queensberry, queensberry rules, queenship

Origin of Queening

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 Queening

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

Word origin for Queening

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