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Definition of Queen
1. Noun. The only fertile female in a colony of social insects such as bees and ants and termites; its function is to lay eggs.
2. Verb. Promote to a queen, as of a pawn in chess.
3. Noun. A female sovereign ruler.
Group relationships: Royal Family, Royal House, Royal Line, Royalty
Generic synonyms: Female Aristocrat
Specialized synonyms: Queen Of England
Specialized synonyms: Cleopatra, Isabella, Isabella I, Isabella The Catholic, Queen Isabella, Liliuokalani, Lydia Kamekeha Paki Liliuokalani, Mary Queen Of Scots, Mary Stuart
Antonyms: Male Monarch, King
Derivative terms: Queenly
4. Verb. Become a queen. "Her pawn queened"
5. Noun. The wife or widow of a king.
Generic synonyms: Female Aristocrat
Specialized synonyms: Queen Consort, Queen Dowager, Queen Regent
Specialized synonyms: Anne Boleyn, Boleyn, Catherine De Medicis, Eleanor Of Aquitaine, Esther, Catherine Howard, Howard, Jezebel, Marie Antoinette, Nefertiti, Catherine Parr, Parr, Jane Seymour, Seymour
Derivative terms: Queenly
6. Noun. Something personified as a woman who is considered the best or most important of her kind. "The queen of ocean liners"
7. Noun. A competitor who holds a preeminent position.
Generic synonyms: Challenger, Competition, Competitor, Contender, Rival
8. Noun. Offensive term for an openly homosexual man.
Language type: Depreciation, Derogation, Disparagement
Generic synonyms: Gay Man, Shirtlifter
9. Noun. One of four face cards in a deck bearing a picture of a queen.
Group relationships: Deck, Deck Of Cards, Pack Of Cards
10. Noun. (chess) the most powerful piece.
11. Noun. An especially large mole rat and the only member of a colony of naked mole rats to bear offspring which are sired by only a few males.
12. Noun. Female cat.
Definition of Queen
1. n. The wife of a king.
2. v. i. To act the part of a queen.
3. v. i. To make a queen (or other piece, at the player's discretion) of by moving it to the eighth row; as, to queen a pawn.
Definition of Queen
1. to make a queen (a female monarch) of [v -ED, -ING, -S]
Medical Definition of Queen
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1. The wife of a king.
2. A woman who is the sovereign of a kingdom; a female monarch; as, Elizabeth, queen of England; Mary, queen of Scots. "In faith, and by the heaven's quene." (Chaucer)
3. A woman eminent in power or attractions; the highest of her kind; as, a queen in society; also used figuratively of cities, countries, etc. " This queen of cities." " Albion, queen of isles."
4. The fertile, or fully developed, female of social bees, ants, and termites.
5. The most powerful, and except the king the most important, piece in a set of chessmen.
6. A playing card bearing the picture of a queen; as, the queen of spades. Queen apple. [Cf. OE. Quyne aple quince apple] A kind of apple; a queening. "Queen apples and red cherries." . Queen bee, a very large West Indian cameo conch (Cassis cameo). It is much used for making cameos. Queen consort, the wife of a reigning king. Queen dowager, the widow of a king. Queen gold, formerly a revenue of the queen consort of England, arising from gifts, fines, etc. Queen mother, a queen dowager who is also mother of the reigning king or queen. Queen of May. See May queen, under May.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Queen
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