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Queens
(kwēnz)
borough of New York City, on W Long Island, east of Brooklyn: pop. 2,229,000
Origin: after Queen Catherine, wife of Charles II of England
See Queens in American Heritage Dictionary 4
A borough of New York City in southeast New York on western Long Island. It was first settled by the Dutch in 1635 and became part of greater New York in 1898. Population: 2,260,000.
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