What is the meaning of queen?

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noun

  • The only fertile female in a colony of social insects such as bees and ants and termites; its function is to lay eggs.
  • A female sovereign ruler.
  • The wife or widow of a king.
  • Something personified as a woman who is considered the best or most important of her kind.
    • usage: "Paris is the queen of cities"; "the queen of ocean liners"
  • A competitor who holds a preeminent position.
  • Offensive term for an openly homosexual man.
  • One of four face cards in a deck bearing a picture of a queen.
  • Chess) the most powerful piece. (
  • 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.
  • Female cat.

verb

  • Promote to a queen, as of a pawn in chess.
  • Become a queen.
    • usage: "her pawn queened"
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