Definition of QUEEN

queen

Plural: queens

Noun

  • the only fertile female in a colony of social insects such as bees and ants and termites; its function is to lay eggs
  • a female sovereign ruler
  • the wife or widow of a king
  • something personified as a woman who is considered the best or most important of her kind
    • "Paris is the queen of cities"
    • "the queen of ocean liners"
  • a competitor who holds a preeminent position
  • offensive term for an openly homosexual man
  • one of four face cards in a deck bearing a picture of a queen
  • (chess) the most powerful piece
  • 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
  • female cat
  • The wife, consort, or widow of a king.
  • A female monarch.
  • A woman whose pre-eminence, power, or forcefulness is comparable to that of a queen.
  • The Virgin Mary (especially in formulations such as Queen of Heaven, Queen of Glory).
  • A woman whose pre-eminence, power, or forcefulness is comparable to that of a queen.
  • An excellent woman.
  • A woman whose pre-eminence, power, or forcefulness is comparable to that of a queen.
  • A woman pre-eminent in a particular group or field.
  • A woman whose pre-eminence, power, or forcefulness is comparable to that of a queen.
  • An attractive woman; a female partner in a romantic relationship.
  • Something regarded as the greatest of its kind or as having pre-eminence or power comparable to that of a queen over a given area.
  • Referring to one of several items used in tabletop games:
  • A chess piece that, under contemporary rules, is the most powerful, able to move any number of spaces horizontally, vertically, or diagonally.
  • Referring to one of several items used in tabletop games:
  • A playing card with a depiction of a queen on it, generally ranking next below the king and above the jack in a given suit.
  • Referring to one of several items used in tabletop games:
  • A red disk that is the most valuable piece in the Asian game of carrom.
  • A reproductive female insect in a hive, such as an ant, bee, termite or wasp.
  • A type of flatfish, specifically the lemon sole.
  • A queen apple.
  • A queen scallop.
  • Ellipsis of queen post.
  • A type of large roofing slate.
  • A homosexual man, especially one regarded as effeminate.
  • An adult female cat capable of breeding.
  • Ellipsis of queen olive.
  • Ellipsis of drag queen.
  • Pertaining to a queen-size bed or queen-size bedding.
  • A monarch butterfly (Danaus spp., especially Danaus gilippus).

Verb

Verb Forms: queened, queening, queens

  • To make someone a queen or to act like a queen.
  • promote to a queen, as of a pawn in chess
  • become a queen
    • "her pawn queened"
  • To act the part of a queen; to behave imperiously; to queen it.
  • To make a queen or (figuratively) to give the status of a queen.
  • To promote a pawn to a queen.
  • To be the queen bee of a colony.
  • To provide with a new queen bee.
  • To sit on a person’s face to receive oral sex, typically while straddling the person’s head.

Examples

  • He planned to QUEEN his pawn in chess, but in Scrabble, he hoped to QUEEN his ’Q’ with a ’U’.
  • The divorced king was looking for a new queen.

Origin / Etymology

From Middle English quene, queen, cwen, from Old English cwēn (“queen”), from Proto-West Germanic *kwāni, from Proto-Germanic *kwēniz (“woman”), from Proto-Indo-European *gʷénh₂s (“woman”).
Cognate with Scots queen, wheen (“queen”), Old Saxon quān ("wife"; > Middle Low German quene (“elderly woman”)), Dutch kween (“woman past child-bearing age”), Swedish kvinna (“woman”), Norwegian kvinne (“woman”), Danish kvinde (“woman”), Icelandic kvon (“wife”), Gothic 𐌵𐌴𐌽𐍃 (qēns, “wife”), Norwegian dialectal kvån (“wife”). Related to and possibly merged with and/or absorbed some senses of English quean, from Middle English quene, from Old English cwene (“woman; female serf, quean”), see quean. Generally eclipsed non-native Middle English regina (“queen”), borrowed from Latin rēgīna (“queen”) (see Modern English Regina). Doublet of quean and gyne.

Synonyms

fag, faggot, fagot, fairy, female monarch, king, nance, pansy, poof, poove, pouf, queen mole rat, queen regnant, queer, tabby, world-beater, Blessed Virgin, Blessed Virgin Mary, Christotokos, Madonna, Mary, Mother of God, Mother of Mercy, Nancy Dawson, Our Lady, Our Lady of Sorrows, Percy, Queen of Heaven, Regina, Saint Mary, Star of the Sea, Theotokos, Virgin Mary, advocatrix, bading, big girl's blouse, bitch, cockney, cot-quean, cowgirl, cupcake, dame, dudelet, face-sit, fakaleiti, femboy, fruit, gentleman, ginch, girl, girl's blouse, girlyman, goddess, honey, janegirl, jessie, lady, mop squeezer, nancy, nancy pants, nancyboy, nelly, old lady, ponce, poofter, posy sniffer, pretty boy, puss-gentleman, queen consort, queen-size, queen-sized, quiche-eater, shirtlifter, sissy, softling, soy boy, swish, twink, whore, zenana

Antonyms

king, male monarch, dequeen

Scrabble Score: 14

queen: valid Scrabble (US) TWL Word
queen: valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
queen: valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary

Words With Friends Score: 16

queen: valid Words With Friends Word