queen (n.)

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

  2. female cat

    [ Syn: tabby ]

  3. a female sovereign ruler

    [ Syn: queen regnant , queen regnant , female monarch , female monarch ]

  4. the wife or widow of a king

  5. 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'

  6. a competitor who holds a preeminent position

    [ Syn: king , world-beater ]

  7. offensive term for an openly homosexual man

    [ Syn: fagot , faggot , fag , fairy , nance , pansy , queer , poof , poove , pouf ]

  8. one of four face cards in a deck bearing a picture of a queen

  9. (chess) the most powerful piece

  10. 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 (v.)

  1. promote to a queen, as of a pawn in chess

  2. become a queen; her pawn queened'

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