QUEEN

tabby, queen

(noun) female cat

queen

(noun) the only fertile female in a colony of social insects such as bees and ants and termites; its function is to lay eggs

queen, queen mole rat

(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

queen

(noun) (chess) the most powerful piece

queen

(noun) one of four face cards in a deck bearing a picture of a queen

fagot, faggot, fag, fairy, nance, pansy, queen, queer, poof, poove, pouf

(noun) offensive term for a homosexual man

king, queen, world-beater

(noun) a competitor who holds a preeminent position

queen, queen regnant, female monarch

(noun) a female sovereign ruler

queen

(noun) the wife or widow of a king

queen

(noun) something personified as a woman who is considered the best or most important of her kind; “Paris is the queen of cities”; “the queen of ocean liners”

queen

(verb) become a queen; “her pawn queened”

queen

(verb) promote to a queen, as of a pawn in chess

Source: WordNet® 3.1

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Etymology

Noun

queen (plural queens)

A female monarch. Example: Queen Victoria.

The wife or widow of a king.

(chess) The most powerful piece, able to move any number of spaces horizontally, vertically, or diagonally.

(card games) A playing card with the letter "Q" and the image of a queen on it, the twelfth card in a given suit.

A red disk that is the most valuable piece in the Asian game of carom.

A powerful or forceful female person.

(LGBT, slang, often, derogatory) An effeminate male homosexual. (See usage notes.)

A reproductive female animal in a hive, such as an ant, bee, termite or wasp.

An adult female cat valued for breeding. See also tom.

A queen olive.

A monarch butterfly (Danaus spp, esp. Danaus gilippus).

Usage notes

• (LGBT): The term can be either derogatory or a self-identification. (Compare nigger.)

• (LGBT): Some of the people who were historically (in the late 1960s and 1970s) described as "queens" or "drag queens" or "street queens" are now sometimes considered transgender, especially when their gender identity is female or non-binary/genderqueer rather than male. Some people, like Sylvia Rivera, self-identified as both a "transgender person" and a "street queen". Drag queens, too, can have any gender identity.

Synonyms

• (female monarch): queen regnant

• (wife of a king): queen consort

• (LGBT): See male homosexual

• (playing card): bitch, cowgirl, girl, lady, mop squeezer

Verb

queen (third-person singular simple present queens, present participle queening, simple past and past participle queened)

To make a queen.

(intransitive, obsolete) To act the part of a queen; to queen it.

(chess) To promote a pawn, usually to a queen.

(beekeeping) To provide with a new queen.

(beekeeping) To be the queen of a colony.

(BDSM, slang, transitive, of a female) To sit on the face of (a partner) to receive oral sex.

Anagrams

• quene

Proper noun

Queen

A title given to queens.

In Commonwealth countries, the state, as symbolized by the queen, particularly in legal matters.

A surname, originating as a nickname

Anagrams

• quene

Source: Wiktionary

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Queen, n. Etym: [OE. quen, quene, queen, quean, AS. cwen wife, queen, woman; akin to OS. quan wife, woman, Icel. kvan wife, queen, Goth. qens. sq. root221. See Quean.]

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." Cowper.

4. The fertile, or fully developed, female of social bees, ants, and termites.

Queen, v. i.

Definition: To act the part of a queen. Shak.

Queen, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Queened; p. pr. & vb. n. Queening.] (Chess.)

Definition: 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.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition

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