queen

Nouns

• (n) the only fertile female in a colony of social insects such as bees and ants and termites; its function is to lay eggs
• (n) a female sovereign ruler female monarch, queen regnant,
• (n) the wife or widow of a king
• (n) 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
• (n) a competitor who holds a preeminent position world-beater, king,
• (n) offensive term for an openly homosexual man fag, faggot, fagot, nance, poof, poove, pouf, queer, fairy, pansy,
• (n) one of four face cards in a deck bearing a picture of a queen
• (n) (chess) the most powerful piece
• (n) 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 mole rat,
• (n) female cat tabby,

Verbs

• (v) promote to a queen, as of a pawn in chess
• (v) become a queen
  • her pawn queened

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