queen

¹queen

noun \ˈkwēn\

Definition of QUEEN

1

a : the wife or widow of a king b : the wife or widow of a tribal chief

2

a : a female monarch b : a female chieftain

3

a : a woman eminent in rank, power, or attractions <a movie queen> b : a goddess or a thing personified as female and having supremacy in a specified realm c : an attractive girl or woman; especially : a beauty contest winner

4

: the most privileged piece of each color in a set of chessmen having the power to move in any direction across any number of unoccupied squares

5

: a playing card marked with a stylized figure of a queen

6

: the fertile fully developed female of social bees, ants, and termites whose function is to lay eggs

7

: a mature female cat kept especially for breeding

8

often disparaging : a male homosexual; especially : an effeminate one

Examples of QUEEN

1. She was crowned queen of England.
2. the reign of Queen Elizabeth
3. the king and his queen
4. the queen of the blues
5. She was voted queen of the prom.
6. This ship is the queen of all the ocean liners.

Origin of QUEEN

Middle English quene, from Old English cwēn woman, wife, queen; akin to Gothic qens wife, Greek gynē woman, Sanskrit jani

First Known Use: before 12th century

Related to QUEEN

Synonyms: goddess, princess, diva

Related Words: high priestess, priestess; prima donna

Near Antonyms: bag, dog, frump; crone, hag, horror, witch; gorgon, monster

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Rhymes with QUEEN

bean, clean, dean, Dean, Deane, dene, e'en, gene, glean, green, jean, keen, lean, lien, mean, mesne, mien, peen, preen, quean, scene, screen, sheen, shin, sin, spean, spleen, teen, tween, wean, ween, wheen, yean

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