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queen

(kw/i/n )

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

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a female sovereign ruler(noun.person)

Synonym:
female monarch, queen regnant
Antonym:
king, male monarch, rex

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the wife or widow of a king(noun.person)

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something personified as a woman who is considered the best or most important of her kind(noun.person)

Example:
Paris is the queen of cities.
The queen of ocean liners.

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a competitor who holds a preeminent position(noun.person)

Synonym:
king, world-beater

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offensive term for an openly homosexual man(noun.person)

Synonym:
fag, faggot, fagot, fairy, nance, pansy, poof, poove, pouf, queer

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one of four face cards in a deck bearing a picture of a queen(noun.artifact)

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(chess) the most powerful piece(noun.artifact)

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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.animal)

Synonym:
queen mole rat

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female cat(noun.animal)

Synonym:
tabby

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The wife of a king.(noun)

source: webster1913

promote to a queen, as of a pawn in chess(verb.social)

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become a queen(verb.motion)

Example:
Her pawn queened.

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To act the part of a queen.(verb)

source: webster1913
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.(verb)

source: webster1913

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