the only fertile female in a colony of social insects such as bees and ants and termites; its function is to lay eggs
female cat
[ Syn: tabby ]
a female sovereign ruler
[ Syn: queen regnant , queen regnant , female monarch , female monarch ]
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 , world-beater ]
offensive term for an openly homosexual man
[ Syn: fagot , faggot , fag , fairy , nance , pansy , queer , poof , poove , pouf ]
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
[ Syn: queen mole rat ]
queen (n.)
promote to a queen, as of a pawn in chess
become a queen; her pawn queened'