queen

female cat

the only fertile female in a colony of social insects such as bees and ants and termites; its function is to lay eggs

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

(chess) the most powerful piece

one of four face cards in a deck bearing a picture of a queen

offensive term for a homosexual man

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”

a female competitor who holds a preeminent position

become a queen

“her pawn queened”

promote to a queen, as of a pawn in chess