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queen Definition

queen (kwēn)

noun

  1. the wife of a king
  2. a woman who rules over a monarchy in her own right; female sovereign
  3. a woman foremost or judged to be foremost among others in certain attributes or accomplishments, as beauty, etc.
  4. a place or thing regarded as the best or most beautiful of its kind
  5. the fully developed, reproductive female in a colony of bees, ants, or termites
  6. a playing card with a conventionalized picture of a queen on it
  7. Slang a male homosexual, specif. one with pronounced feminine characteristics: term of contempt or derision
  8. Chess the most powerful piece, permitted to move any number of unoccupied squares in a horizontal, vertical, or diagonal direction

Etymology: ME quen < OE cwen: see quean

transitive verb

  1. to make (a girl or woman) a queen
  2. Chess to make a queen of (a pawn that has reached the opponent's end of the board)

intransitive verb

to reign as queen

queen Related Forms

queen′·dom noun queen′·hood′ noun queen′·like′ adjective

queen Idioms

queen it

to act like a queen; domineer

queen Synonyms

queen

n.

ruler, monarch, female ruler, female sovereign, queen mother, regent, wife of a king, empress, czarina, consort, queen consort, queen dowager, queen regent, fairy queen, May Queen, matriarch, goddess, diva, prima donna, grande dame.

queen Usage Examples

Possessives

jubilee: By now you are probably sick of the hype surrounding the queen's golden jubilee.

Converse of object

  • fertilize: You also have the drone bee that doesn't do anything except fertilize the young queens.
  • lactate: Also meets all the nutritional requirements of pregnant and lactating queens.
  • crown: Little chance of being crowned queen of the jungle I think.

Adjective modifier

  • undisputed: With Destiny's Child now the undisputed queens of girl band r'n'b few people have TLC at the forefront of their mind anymore.
  • virgin: The drone's sole function is to mate with virgin queens ( from which act he dies ).
  • wicked: Like the wicked queen in Snow White, we get angry with the mirror and try to do away with it.
  • Egyptian: The face of the Egyptian queen and other historical figures would be created by computers.

Modifies a noun

  • excluder: Denis was going to put a queen excluder and a super on to give the hive more room.
  • elizabeth: So obvious she active and successful dawn depicts for majesty queen elizabeth.
  • bumblebee: Alan Morley's observations of queen bumblebees Bombus terrestris collecting pollen in winter demonstrate the point.
  • bee: In the burrow the queen bee builds a few small cells from wax made in her body.
  • scallop: The whole drift took place over a crowded queen scallop bed.
  • beatrix: At queen beatrix some political parties been some movement in the la.

Noun used with modifier

  • drag: Here he plays the secretly vulnerable yet dazzling drag queen Lola.
  • prom: She never attracted much attention until the most popular guy at school bet his buddies he could transform her into the prom queen.
  • catwalk: Despite shooting the promo while pregnant, the German catwalk queen managed to hide her fledgling bump with clever use of a prop.
  • homecoming: Laura Palmer, the high school homecoming queen, has been murdered.
  • carnival: Salvation was chosen to be carnival queen one year.
  • futon: Rates for transitional benefits heavily on family structure insurance or individual who cover futon queen size are not.