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Queen
kwiːn
Queen definitions
noun
queen
queens
- the female ruler of an independent state, especially one who inherits the position by right of birth
"he insisted the princess could be crowned queen"
- a king's wife
- a woman or thing regarded as the finest or most outstanding in a particular sphere or group
"the queen of the social columns"
- a woman or girl chosen to hold the most important position in a festival or event
"she's the official carnival queen"
- (in the UK) the national anthem when there is a female sovereign
- the most powerful chess piece that each player has, able to move in any direction along a rank, file, or diagonal on which it stands
- a playing card bearing a representation of a queen, normally ranking next below a king and above a jack
- a reproductive female in a colony of social ants, bees, wasps, or termites, frequently the only one present in a colony
- a gay man with an ostentatiously affected, flamboyant, or feminine manner
- an adult female cat that has not been spayed
verb
queen
queened
queening
queens
- behave in an unpleasantly superior way towards (someone)
"Monique was queening it over everybody"
- convert (a pawn) into a queen when it reaches the opponent's back rank on the board