queens Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. noun a borough of New York City
  2. 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.
  3. noun a female sovereign ruler
    female monarch; queen; queen regnant.
  4. noun the wife or widow of a king
    queen.
  5. noun something personified as a woman who is considered the best or most important of her kind
    queen.
    • Paris is the queen of cities
    • the queen of ocean liners
  6. noun a competitor who holds a preeminent position
    world-beater; king; queen.
  7. noun offensive term for an openly homosexual man
    poove; fairy; nance; queen; fagot; pansy; poof; queer; pouf; faggot; fag.
  8. noun one of four face cards in a deck bearing a picture of a queen
    queen.
  9. noun (chess) the most powerful piece
    queen.
  10. 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; queen mole rat.
  11. noun female cat
    queen; tabby.
  12. verb promote to a queen, as of a pawn in chess
    queen.
  13. verb become a queen
    queen.
    • her pawn queened

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