noun. the only fertile female in a colony of social insects such as bees and ants and termites; its function is to lay eggs |
noun. a female sovereign ruler |
noun. the wife or widow of a king |
noun. 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 |
noun. a competitor who holds a preeminent position |
noun. offensive term for a homosexual man |
noun. one of four face cards in a deck bearing a picture of a queen |
noun. (chess) the most powerful piece |
noun. 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 |
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verb. promote to a queen, as of a pawn in chess |
verb. become a queen her pawn queened |
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