what does it mean to be a queen

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noun

a female sovereign or monarch.

the wife or espoused of a king.

a woman, or something personified as a woman, that is foremost or preeminent in any respect:a movie queen; a beauty queen; Athens, the queen of the Aegean.

1. Slang: Usually Disparaging and Offensive. a term used to refer to a gay human being, especially ane who is flamboyantly campy or effeminate. Encounter Usage annotation at the electric current entry.
2. drag queen.

a playing card bearing a picture of a queen.

Chess. the most powerful piece of either color, moved beyond any number of empty squares in any direction.

Entomology. a fertile female person ant, bee, termite, or wasp.

a word formerly used in communications to represent the alphabetic character Q.

verb (used without object)

to reign as queen.

to comport in an imperious or pretentious fashion (usually followed by it).

Chess. to become promoted to a queen.

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Origin of queen

First recorded before 900; Middle English quene, quen, Old English language cwēn "adult female, queen"; cognate with Old Saxon quān, Onetime Norse kvān, Gothic qēns, from unattested Germanic kwēni-; akin to Old Irish gaelic ben, Greek gynḗ woman, Russian zhená, Sanskrit jani "wife"

usage annotation for queen

The term queen is commonly used with disparaging intent and perceived as insulting when in reference to a gay man, especially 1 considered to exist effeminate or flamboyant. Nevertheless, within the gay customs, it is sometimes used in a friendly, teasing, or facetious manner, and tin can also be a positive term of self-reference.

OTHER WORDS FROM queen

queen·less, adjective queen·like, adjective un·der·queen, noun

Words nearby queen

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Other definitions for queen (2 of 2)

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Words related to queen

monarch, ruler, consort, empress, regent, czarina, matriarch, ranee, regina, sovereign, queen consort, queen dowager, queen mother

How to employ queen in a sentence

• "They treated the states like kings and queens," said 1 member who participated in the set visit.

• These pale wrinkly niggling rodents, indigenous to East Africa, alive in underground colonies with rigid roles and elaborate social hierarchies nether the stewardship of a queen.

• Once a new queen emerges, the colony's sound again starts to match.

• Alas, the queen has never liked the concept of "one pes in, one pes out" for working royals.

• The latest match pits Serena Williams, the queen of tennis, against Naomi Osaka, the youngster who is her heir apparent.

• The reigning queen of hip-hop treads the boards in her teen years.

• The last time there was a raid of this scale was in 2001, when 52 men were arrested on Queen Boat, a floating disco on the Nile.

• When they invade new territory, populations are low, and the queen has limited mate options.

• Fifty-fifty the queen saw fit to award him with the Order of the British Empire at Buckingham Palace in 2008.

• A palace insider still insisted to the Daily Brute today that the Queen was not about to forsake.

• All forth the highways and past-paths of our literature we meet much that pertains to this "queen of plants."

• A fancy came into my head that I would entertain the king and queen with an English melody upon this instrument.

• Q was a Queen, who wore a silk slip; R was a Robber, and wanted a whip.

• One of her humours was to unite the son of her minister, with a niece of the widowed Queen of Saint Germain's.

• Equally dark began to settle down over the land, the Queen Elizabeth seemed to feel the fourth dimension had come up to give full vent to her wrath.

British Dictionary definitions for queen (one of 2)

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substantive

a female sovereign who is the official ruler or head of state

the wife or widow of a king

a adult female or a thing personified equally a woman considered the all-time or almost important of her kind a beauty queen; the queen of ocean liners

slang an effeminate male homosexual

1. the only fertile female in a colony of social insects, such as bees, ants, and termites, from the eggs of which the entire colony develops
2. (equally modifier) a queen bee

an adult female true cat

ane of four playing cards in a pack, one for each suit, bearing the motion-picture show of a queen

a chess piece, theoretically the most powerful piece, able to move in a directly line in whatever direction or diagonally, over any number of squares

verb

chess to promote (a pawn) to a queen when it reaches the eighth rank

(tr) to crown every bit queen

(intr) informal (of a gay man) to flaunt i'southward homosexuality

(intr) to reign equally queen

queen information technology (often foll by over) informal to comport in an overbearing manner

Word Origin for queen

Old English cwēn; related to Old Saxon quān married woman, One-time Norse kvæn, Gothic qēns wife

British Dictionary definitions for queen (2 of 2)

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noun

Ellery (ˈɛlərɪ). pseudonym of Frederic Dannay (1905–82) and Manfred B. Lee (1905–71), United states co-authors of detective novels featuring a sleuth too called Ellery Queen

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