Queen

Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

·noun The wife of a king.

II. Queen ·vi To act the part of a queen.

III. Queen ·noun A playing card bearing the picture of a queen; as, the queen of spades.

IV. Queen ·noun The fertile, or fully developed, female of social bees, ants, and termites.

V. Queen ·noun A male homosexual, ·esp. one who is effeminate or dresses in women's clothing.

VI. Queen ·noun The most powerful, and except the king the most important, piece in a set of chessmen.

VII. Queen ·noun A woman who is the sovereign of a kingdom; a female monarch; as, Elizabeth, queen of England; Mary, queen of Scots.

VIII. Queen ·vi To make a queen (or other piece, at the player's discretion) of by moving it to the eighth row; as, to queen a pawn.

IX. Queen ·noun A woman eminent in power or attractions; the highest of her kind; as, a queen in society;

— also used figuratively of cities, countries, ·etc.

Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

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