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▸ noun: the only fertile female in a colony of social insects such as bees and ants and termites; its function is to lay eggs
▸ noun: especially large and only member of a colony of naked mole rats to bear offspring sired by only a few males
▸ noun: (chess) the most powerful piece
▸ noun: one of four face cards in a deck bearing a picture of a queen
▸ noun: a female sovereign ruler
▸ noun: the wife or widow of a king
▸ noun: something personified as a woman who is considered the best or most important of her kind ("Paris is the queen of cities")
▸ noun: female cat
▸ noun: a competitor who holds a preeminent position
▸ noun: offensive terms for an openly homosexual man
▸ verb: promote to a queen, as of a pawn in chess
▸ verb: become a queen ("Her pawn queened")
▸ name: A female given name (rare: 1 in 11111 females; popularity rank in the U.S.: #923)
▸ name: A surname (common: 1 in 14285 families; popularity rank in the U.S.: #1814)
▸ Also see queens
▸ Word origin
▸ Words similar to queen
▸ Usage examples for queen
▸ Popular adjectives describing queen
▸ Words that often appear near queen
▸ Rhymes of queen
▸ Invented words related to queen
▸ noun: the only fertile female in a colony of social insects such as bees and ants and termites; its function is to lay eggs
▸ noun: especially large and only member of a colony of naked mole rats to bear offspring sired by only a few males
▸ noun: (chess) the most powerful piece
▸ noun: one of four face cards in a deck bearing a picture of a queen
▸ noun: a female sovereign ruler
▸ noun: the wife or widow of a king
▸ noun: something personified as a woman who is considered the best or most important of her kind ("Paris is the queen of cities")
▸ noun: female cat
▸ noun: a competitor who holds a preeminent position
▸ noun: offensive terms for an openly homosexual man
▸ verb: promote to a queen, as of a pawn in chess
▸ verb: become a queen ("Her pawn queened")
▸ name: A female given name (rare: 1 in 11111 females; popularity rank in the U.S.: #923)
▸ name: A surname (common: 1 in 14285 families; popularity rank in the U.S.: #1814)
▸ Also see queens
▸ Word origin
▸ Words similar to queen
▸ Usage examples for queen
▸ Popular adjectives describing queen
▸ Words that often appear near queen
▸ Rhymes of queen
▸ Invented words related to queen