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queen
1[ kween ]
noun
- a female sovereign or monarch.
- the wife or consort of a king.
- 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.
- Slang: Usually Disparaging and Offensive. a term used to refer to a gay man, especially one who is flamboyantly campy or effeminate. the current entry.
- a playing card bearing a picture of a queen.
- Chess. the most powerful piece of either color, moved across any number of empty squares in any direction.
- Entomology. a fertile female ant, bee, termite, or wasp.
- a word formerly used in communications to represent the letter Q.
verb (used without object)
- to reign as queen.
- to behave in an imperious or pretentious manner (usually followed by it ).
- Chess. to become promoted to a queen.
Queen
2[ kween ]
noun
- Ellery, joint pen name of Manfred Bennington Lee and Frederick Dannay.
queen
1/ kwiːn /
noun
- a female sovereign who is the official ruler or head of state
- the wife or widow of a king
- 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
- slang.an effeminate male homosexual
- 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
- an adult female cat
- one of four playing cards in a pack, one for each suit, bearing the picture of a queen
- 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
verb
- chess to promote (a pawn) to a queen when it reaches the eighth rank
- tr to crown as queen
- informal.intr (of a gay man) to flaunt one's homosexuality
- intr to reign as queen
- queen it informal.queen it often foll by over to behave in an overbearing manner
Queen
2/ kwiːn /
noun
- DannayFrederic19051982M LeeManfred B19051971M 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
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Other Words From
- queen·less adjective
- queen·like adjective
- un·der·queen noun
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Word History and Origins
Origin of queen1
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Example Sentences
The reigning queen of hip-hop treads the boards in her teen years.
The last time there was a raid of this scale was in 2001, when 52 men were arrested on Queen Boat, a floating disco on the Nile.
When they invade new territory, populations are low, and the queen has limited mate options.
Even the queen saw fit to honor him with the Order of the British Empire at Buckingham Palace in 2008.
A palace insider however insisted to the Daily Beast today that the Queen was not about to abdicate.
All along the highways and by-paths of our literature we encounter much that pertains to this "queen of plants."
A fancy came into my head that I would entertain the king and queen with an English tune upon this instrument.
Q was a Queen, who wore a silk slip; R was a Robber, and wanted a whip.
One of her humours was to unite the son of her minister, with a niece of the widowed Queen of Saint Germain's.
As night began to settle down over the land, the Queen Elizabeth seemed to feel the time had come to give full vent to her wrath.
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