English dictionary
queen
nounPronunciation
kwiːn
Audio pronunciation
Parts of speech
Definitions
noun
- female cat
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
- 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
noun
- (chess) the most powerful piece
noun
- one of four face cards in a deck bearing a picture of a queen
noun
- offensive term for a homosexual man
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
noun
- a female competitor who holds a preeminent position
verb
- become a queen
verb
- promote to a queen, as of a pawn in chess
Example sentences
Paris is the queen of cities
the queen of ocean liners
her pawn queened