Queen - definition, pronunciation, transcription

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Amer.  |kwiːn|  American pronunciation of the word queen
Brit.  |kwiːn|  British pronunciation of the word 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
- a female sovereign ruler
- the wife or widow of a king
- 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
- a competitor who holds a preeminent position (syn: king)
- offensive term for a homosexual man (syn: fag, faggot, fagot, fairy, nance, pansy, poof, queer)
- one of four face cards in a deck bearing a picture of a queen
- (chess) the most powerful piece
- 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
- female cat (syn: tabby)

verb

- promote to a queen, as of a pawn in chess
- become a queen
her pawn queened

Extra examples

She was crowned queen of England.

She was voted queen of the prom.

This ship is the queen of all the ocean liners.

The king and queen had fled.

Agatha Christie was the queen of the detective genre.

I queened my pawn.

The pawn queens.

Cleopatra, Queen of Egypt

Queen Elizabeth

At eighteen, Victoria was crowned queen (=officially became ruler).

Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II

Venice, the queen of the Adriatic

Queen's Bench

Paris is the queen of cities

The queen ruled for 25 years.

Word forms

verb
I/you/we/they: queen
he/she/it: queens
present participle: queening
past tense: queened
past participle: queened
noun
singular: queen
plural: queens
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