queen : Idioms & Phrases

• noun a negative term for a homosexual man who chooses not to reveal his sexual orientation
  

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• noun an airplane with a bad maintenance record
  

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• an image pepresenting Ceres, formerly carried about on the last day of harvest. Milton.

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• noun queen of Scotland from 1542 to 1567; as a Catholic she was forced to abdicate in favor of her son and fled to England where she was imprisoned by Elizabeth I; when Catholic supporters plotted to put her on the English throne she was tried and executed for sedition (1542-1587)
  Mary Stuart.
  

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• noun the girl chosen queen of a May Day festival
  May queen.
  

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• a girl or young woman crowned queen in the sports of May Day.

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• the mother of a reigning sovereign; a queen mother.

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• noun a widely naturalized Eurasian herb with finely cut foliage and white compound umbels of small white or yellowish flowers and thin yellowish roots
  wild carrot; Daucus carota.
  

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• noun fertile egg-laying female bee
  

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• noun an inlet of the Pacific Ocean off the coast of British Columbia
  

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• noun the largest city in North Carolina; located in south central North Carolina
  Charlotte.
  

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• noun the wife of a reigning king
  

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• noun the widow of a king
  

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• noun the queen of Castile whose marriage to Ferdinand of Aragon in 1469 marked the beginning of the modern state of Spain; they instituted the Spanish Inquisition in 1478 and sponsored the voyages of Christopher Columbus in 1492 (1451-1504)
  Isabella I; Isabella; Isabella the Catholic.
  

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• verb act like the master of
  lord it over; put on airs; act superior.
  
  • He is lording it over the students

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• noun a region of Antarctica between Enderby Land and the Weddell Sea; claimed by Norway
  

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• 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.
  

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• noun a queen dowager who is mother of the reigning sovereign
  

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• noun the sovereign ruler of England
  

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• noun the girl chosen queen of a May Day festival
  May queen.
  

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• noun tropical American climbing cactus having triangular branches; often cultivated for its large showy night-blooming flowers followed by yellow red-streaked fruits
  Selenicereus grandiflorus.
  

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• noun vertical tie post in a roof truss
  

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• noun a queen who serves as ruler when the king cannot
  

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• noun a female sovereign ruler
  female monarch; queen.
  

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• noun tropical Atlantic fish
  Bessy cerca; oldwife; oldwench; Balistes vetula.
  

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Queen" truss

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1. (Arch.) A truss framed with queen-posts; a queen-post truss.

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• noun queen of Great Britain and Ireland and empress of India from 1837 to 1901; the last Hanoverian ruler of England (1819-1901)
  Victoria.
  

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• noun Counsel to the Crown when the British monarch is a queen
  

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• noun native to Asia, Australia, and East Indies, where it provides timber called pyinma; used elsewhere as an ornamental for its large showy flowers
  pride-of-India; Lagerstroemia speciosa.
  

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• noun plant with 1 or 2 white starlike flowers on short leafless stalks; Alaska to California and east to Oregon and Montana
  bride's bonnet; Clintonia uniflora.
  

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• noun English as spoken by educated persons in southern England
  King's English.
  

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• adjective satellite (used especially of beds) not as large as king-size
  queen-size.
  
  • a queen-sized bed

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• adjective satellite (used especially of beds) not as large as king-size
  queen-size.
  
  • a queen-sized bed

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