| queen | | |
| n. (animal) | 1. queen | the only fertile female in a colony of social insects such as bees and ants and termites; its function is to lay eggs. |
| ~ insect | small air-breathing arthropod. |
| ~ queen bee | fertile egg-laying female bee. |
| n. (person) | 2. female monarch, queen, queen regnant | a female sovereign ruler. |
| ~ royal family, royal house, royal line, royalty | royal persons collectively.; "the wedding was attended by royalty" |
| ~ female aristocrat | a woman who is an aristocrat. |
| ~ queen of england | the sovereign ruler of England. |
| ~ 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, isabella i, isabella the catholic, queen isabella | 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). |
| ~ liliuokalani, lydia kamekeha paki liliuokalani | queen of the Hawaiian islands (1838-1917). |
| ~ mary queen of scots, mary stuart | 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). |
| n. (person) | 3. queen | the wife or widow of a king. |
| ~ royal family, royal house, royal line, royalty | royal persons collectively.; "the wedding was attended by royalty" |
| ~ female aristocrat | a woman who is an aristocrat. |
| ~ 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. |
| ~ anne boleyn, 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, 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, parr | Queen of England as the 6th wife of Henry VIII (1512-1548). |
| ~ jane seymour, seymour | Queen of England as the third wife of Henry VIII and mother of Edward VI (1509-1537). |
| n. (person) | 4. queen | 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" |
| ~ personification | a person who represents an abstract quality.; "she is the personification of optimism" |
| n. (person) | 5. king, queen, world-beater | a competitor who holds a preeminent position. |
| ~ challenger, competitor, contender, rival, competition | the contestant you hope to defeat.; "he had respect for his rivals"; "he wanted to know what the competition was doing" |
| n. (person) | 6. fag, faggot, fagot, fairy, nance, pansy, poof, poove, pouf, queen, queer | offensive term for an openly homosexual man. |
| ~ derogation, disparagement, depreciation | a communication that belittles somebody or something. |
| ~ gay man, shirtlifter | a homosexual man. |
| n. (artifact) | 7. queen | one of four face cards in a deck bearing a picture of a queen. |
| ~ court card, face card, picture card | one of the twelve cards in a deck bearing a picture of a face. |
| ~ deck of cards, pack of cards, deck | a pack of 52 playing cards. |
| n. (artifact) | 8. queen | (chess) the most powerful piece. |
| ~ chess game, chess | a board game for two players who move their 16 pieces according to specific rules; the object is to checkmate the opponent's king. |
| ~ chess piece, chessman | any of 16 white and 16 black pieces used in playing the game of chess. |
| n. (animal) | 9. queen, queen mole rat | 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. |
| ~ 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. (animal) | 10. queen, tabby | female cat. |
| ~ domestic cat, felis catus, felis domesticus, house cat | any domesticated member of the genus Felis. |
| v. (social) | 11. queen | promote to a queen, as of a pawn in chess. |
| ~ 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. |
| v. (motion) | 12. queen | become a queen.; "her pawn queened" |
| ~ chess game, chess | a board game for two players who move their 16 pieces according to specific rules; the object is to checkmate the opponent's king. |
| ~ promote | be changed for a superior chess or checker piece. |
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