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PRIMARY MEANINGS OF: queen

1	n v	a female sovereign ruler become a queen
2	n v	(chess) the most powerful piece promote to a queen, as of a pawn in chess
3	n	the only fertile female in a colony of social insects such as bees and ants and termites; its function is to lay eggs
4	n	something personified as a woman who is considered the best or most important of her kind
5	n	offensive term for an openly homosexual man

FULL DEFINITIONS OF: queen

n a female sovereign ruler

Synonyms:: female monarch, queen regnant

Antonyms:: Rex, king, male monarch
a male sovereign; ruler of a kingdom

Examples:: show 11 examples...; hide 11 examples...; Cleopatra
beautiful and charismatic queen of Egypt; mistress of Julius Caesar and later of Mark Antony; killed herself to avoid capture by Octavian (69-30 BC); Isabella the Catholic
the queen of Castile whose marriage to Ferdinand of Aragon in 1469 marked the beginning of the modern state of Spain; they instituted the Spanish Inquisition in 1478 and sponsored the voyages of Christopher Columbus in 1492 (1451-1504); Lydia Kamekeha Paki Liliuokalani
queen of the Hawaiian islands (1838-1917); Mary Queen of Scots
queen of Scotland from 1542 to 1567; as a Catholic she was forced to abdicate in favor of her son and fled to England where she was imprisoned by Elizabeth I; when Catholic supporters plotted to put her on the English throne she was tried and executed for sedition (1542-1587); Anne
Queen of England and Scotland and Ireland; daughter if James II and the last of the Stuart monarchs; in 1707 she was the last English ruler to exercise the royal veto over parliament (1665-1714); Elizabeth I
Queen of England from 1558 to 1603; daughter of Henry VIII and Anne Boleyn; she succeeded Mary I (who was a Catholic) and restored Protestantism to England; during her reign Mary Queen of Scots was executed and the Spanish Armada was defeated; her reign was marked by prosperity and literary genius (1533-1603); Elizabeth II
daughter of George VI who became the Queen of England and Northern Ireland in 1952 on the death of her father (1926-); Lady Jane Grey
Queen of England for nine days in 1553; she was quickly replaced by Mary Tudor and beheaded for treason (1537-1554); Bloody Mary
daughter of Henry VIII and Catherine of Aragon who was Queen of England from 1553 to 1558; she was the wife of Philip II of Spain and when she restored Roman Catholicism to England many Protestants were burned at the stake as heretics (1516-1558); Mary II
Queen of England and Scotland and Ireland; she was the eldest daughter of James II and ruled jointly with her husband William III (1662-1694); Queen Victoria
queen of Great Britain and Ireland and empress of India from 1837 to 1901; the last Hanoverian ruler of England (1819-1901)

Types:: Queen of England
the sovereign ruler of England

Type of:: female aristocrat
a woman who is an aristocrat

n the wife or widow of a king

Examples:: show 10 examples...; hide 10 examples...; Anne Boleyn
the second wife of Henry VIII and mother of Elizabeth I; was executed on a charge of adultery (1507-1536); Catherine de Medicis
queen of France as the wife of Henry II and regent during the minority of her son Charles IX (1519-1589); Eleanor of Aquitaine
queen of France as the wife of Louis VII; that marriage was annulled in 1152 and she then married Henry II and became Queen of England (1122-1204); Esther
(Old Testament) a beautiful Jewess chosen by the king of Persia to be his queen; she stopped a plot to massacre all the Jews in Persia (an event celebrated by Jews as the feast of Purim); Catherine Howard
Queen of England as the fifth wife of Henry VIII who was accused of adultery and executed (1520-1542); Jezebel
wife of Ahab who was king of Israel; according to the Old Testament she was a cruel immoral queen who fostered the worship of Baal and tried to kill Elijah and other prophets of Israel (9th century BC); Marie Antoinette
queen of France (as wife of Louis XVI) who was unpopular; her extravagance and opposition to reform contributed to the overthrow of the monarchy; she was guillotined along with her husband (1755-1793); Nefertiti
queen of Egypt and wife of Akhenaton (14th century BC); Catherine Parr
Queen of England as the 6th wife of Henry VIII (1512-1548); Jane Seymour
Queen of England as the third wife of Henry VIII and mother of Edward VI (1509-1537)

Types:: show 4 types...; hide 4 types...; queen consort
the wife of a reigning king; queen dowager
the widow of a king; queen regent
a queen who serves as ruler when the king cannot; queen mother
a queen dowager who is mother of the reigning sovereign

Type of:: female aristocrat
a woman who is an aristocrat

n one of four face cards in a deck bearing a picture of a queen

Type of:: court card, face card, picture card
one of the twelve cards in a deck bearing a picture of a face

v become a queen

“her pawn queened”

Type of:: promote
be changed for a superior chess or checker piece

n (chess) the most powerful piece

Type of:: chess piece, chessman
any of 16 white and 16 black pieces used in playing the game of chess

v promote to a queen, as of a pawn in chess

Type of:: promote
change a pawn for a better piece by advancing it to the eighth row, or change a checker piece for a more valuable piece by moving it to the row closest to your opponent

n the only fertile female in a colony of social insects such as bees and ants and termites; its function is to lay eggs

Types:: queen bee
fertile egg-laying female bee

Type of:: insect
small air-breathing arthropod

n 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
fetal-looking colonial rodent of East Africa; neither mole nor rat; they feed on tubers and have a social structure similar to that of honeybees and termites

n female cat

Synonyms:: tabby

Type of:: Felis catus, Felis domesticus, domestic cat, house cat
any domesticated member of the genus Felis

n 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 person who represents an abstract quality

n a competitor who holds a preeminent position

Synonyms:: king, world-beater

Type of:: challenger, competition, competitor, contender, rival
the contestant you hope to defeat

n offensive term for an openly homosexual man

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

Type of:: gay man, shirtlifter
a homosexual man

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