queen meaning

UK /kwiːn/ US /kwin/ 1 syllable

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

queen has 12 meanings in this dictionary, as noun and verb.

queen as a noun

the only fertile female in a colony of social insects such as bees and ants and termites; its function is to lay eggs
Type of: insect
Kinds: queen bee
a female sovereign ruler
Synonyms: queen regnant, female monarch
Opposite: king
Type of: female aristocrat
Kinds: Queen of England, Cleopatra, Isabella, Liliuokalani, Mary Queen of Scots
Related forms: queenly
the wife or widow of a king
Type of: female aristocrat
Kinds: queen consort, queen dowager, queen regent, Boleyn, Catherine de Medicis, Eleanor of Aquitaine, Esther, Howard, Jezebel, Marie Antoinette, Nefertiti, Parr
Related forms: queenly
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
Type of: personification
a competitor who holds a preeminent position
Synonyms: king, world-beater
Type of: rival
offensive term for a homosexual man
Synonyms: fagot, faggot, fag, fairy, nance, pansy, queer, poof, poove, pouf
Type of: homosexual
one of four face cards in a deck bearing a picture of a queen
Type of: face card
(chess) the most powerful piece
Type of: chessman
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
Synonyms: queen mole rat
Type of: naked mole rat
female cat
Synonyms: tabby
Type of: domestic cat

queen is pronounced /kwiːn/ in British English and /kwin/ in American English. It has 1 syllable.

Scrabble score: 14 (letter breakdown)

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