QUEEN
\kwˈiːn], \kwˈiːn], \k_w_ˈiː_n]\
Definitions of QUEEN
- 2006 - WordNet 3.0
- 2011 - English Dictionary Database
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
- 1919 - The Winston Simplified Dictionary
- 1899 - The american dictionary of the english language.
- 1894 - The Clarendon dictionary
- 1919 - The Concise Standard Dictionary of the English Language
- 1871 - The Cabinet Dictionary of the English Language
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a female sovereign ruler
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a competitor who holds a preeminent position
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the only fertile female in a colony of social insects such as bees and ants and termites; its function is to lay eggs
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especially large and only member of a colony of naked mole rats to bear offspring sired by only a few males
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one of four face cards in a deck bearing a picture of a queen
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the wife or widow of a king
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(chess) the most powerful piece
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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"
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become a queen; "her pawn queened"
By Princeton University
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a female sovereign ruler
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a competitor who holds a preeminent position
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the only fertile female in a colony of social insects such as bees and ants and termites; its function is to lay eggs
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especially large and only member of a colony of naked mole rats to bear offspring sired by only a few males
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(chess) the most powerful chess piece
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one of four face cards in a deck bearing a picture of a queen
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the wife or widow of a king
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become a queen, as of a chess pawn
By DataStellar Co., Ltd
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A woman who is the sovereign of a kingdom; a female monarch; as, Elizabeth, queen of England; Mary, queen of Scots.
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The fertile, or fully developed, female of social bees, ants, and termites.
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The most powerful, and except the king the most important, piece in a set of chessmen.
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A playing card bearing the picture of a queen; as, the queen of spades.
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A male homosexual, esp. one who is effeminate or dresses in women's clothing.
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To act the part of a queen.
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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.
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A woman eminent in power or attractions; the highest of her kind; as, a queen in society; - also used figuratively of cities, countries, etc.
By Oddity Software
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A woman who is the sovereign of a kingdom; a female monarch; as, Elizabeth, queen of England; Mary, queen of Scots.
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The fertile, or fully developed, female of social bees, ants, and termites.
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The most powerful, and except the king the most important, piece in a set of chessmen.
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A playing card bearing the picture of a queen; as, the queen of spades.
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A male homosexual, esp. one who is effeminate or dresses in women's clothing.
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To act the part of a queen.
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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.
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A woman eminent in power or attractions; the highest of her kind; as, a queen in society; - also used figuratively of cities, countries, etc.
By Noah Webster.
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A female sovereign, or woman who rules in her own right; the wife of a king; a gifted woman who is a natural leader; as, a social queen; the only perfect female of a swarm of bees (queen bee) or a colony of ants; a playing card on which is a picture of a queen; a piece in chess; the best or chief of her kind.
By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer
By Daniel Lyons
By William Hand Browne, Samuel Stehman Haldeman
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The wife of a king; a female sovereign of a kingdom; a woman preeminent in a given sphere.
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The most powerful piece in chess.
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The female of ants, bees, etc.
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Queenly.
By James Champlin Fernald
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n. [Old English, Anglo-Saxon, Icelandic] The consort of a king ;-a woman who is the sovereign of a kingdom ; --the sovereign of a swarm of bees, or the female of the hive ;-any woman who is chief or pre-eminent above others of her sex ;--a playing-card on which the figure of a queen is painted ;-one of the chief pieces in the game of chess.
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