Definitions for Queen

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Queen queen

Spelling: [kween]

IPA: /kwin/

Queen is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 14 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 16 points.

You can make 19 anagrams from letters in Queen (eenqu).

Definitions for Queen

noun

1. a female sovereign or monarch.
2. the wife or consort of a king.
3. a woman, or something personified as a woman, that is foremost or preeminent in any respect:
4. Slang: Disparaging and Offensive. a contemptuous term used to refer to a male homosexual, especially one who is flamboyantly campy or effeminate. drag queen.
5. a playing card bearing a picture of a queen.
6. Chess. the most powerful piece of either color, moved across any number of empty squares in any direction.
7. Entomology. a fertile female ant, bee, termite, or wasp.
8. a word formerly used in communications to represent the letter Q.
9. Ellery, joint pen name of Manfred Bennington Lee and Frederick Dannay.

verb (used without object)

1. to reign as queen.
2. to behave in an imperious or pretentious manner (usually followed by it).
3. Chess. to become promoted to a queen.

Origin of Queen

before 900; Middle English quene, quen, Old English cwēn woman, queen; cognate with Old Saxon quān, Old Norse kvān, Gothic qēns Germanic *kwēni-; akin to Old Irish ben, Greek gynḗ woman, Russ

Examples for Queen

And she stood alert at the side of the road, looking at Andrew like a queen.

On the 24th of May we determined to celebrate the queen's birthday.

It had offered odds of 10-1 on the queen abdicating during the Christmas message.

Even the queen saw fit to honor him with the Order of the British Empire at Buckingham Palace in 2008.

The prince and princess are hailed and received at the castle as king and queen.

A palace insider however insisted to the Daily Beast today that the queen was not about to abdicate.

Were I to be queen of the universe, that dignity should not absolve me from my duty to you and to my father.

The last time there was a raid of this scale was in 2001, when 52 men were arrested on queen Boat, a floating disco on the Nile.

They told the story of a queen who had lived to be eighty-two years old.

When they invade new territory, populations are low, and the queen has limited mate options.