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queen

 (kwēn)

n.

1.

a. The wife or widow of a king.

b. A female sovereign.

2.

a. A woman considered preeminent in a particular field: the reigning queen of hip-hop.

b. A woman chosen as the winner of a contest or the honorary head of an event: a beauty queen; the queen of the prom.

3. Something having eminence or supremacy in a given domain and personified as a woman: Paris is regarded as the queen of cities.

4. Abbr. Q Games

a. The most powerful chess piece, able to move in any direction over any number of empty squares in a straight line.

b. A playing card bearing the figure of a queen, ranking above the jack and below the king.

5.

a. The sole reproductive female, or one of several such females, in a colony of eusocial insects, such as bees, wasps, ants, or termites.

b. The reproductive female in a colony of naked mole rats.

6. A mature female cat, especially one kept for breeding purposes.

7. Offensive Slang Used as a disparaging term for a gay man.

8. A queen-size bed.

v. queened, queen·ing, queens

v.tr.

1. To make (a woman) a queen.

2. Games To raise (a pawn) to queen in chess.

v.intr. Games

To become a queen in chess.

adj.

Of or relating to a queen-size bed: queen sheets; a queen bed skirt.

Idiom:

queen it

To act like a queen; domineer: queens it over the whole family.

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[Middle English quene, from Old English cwēn; see g^wen- in Indo-European roots.]

Word History: On paper, a queen and a quean are easily distinguished. In speech, however, it is easy to imagine how the complete homophony of the two words, both referring to female persons, could lead to embarrassing double-entendres—a fact which has probably contributed to a decline in use of the word quean in modern times. How did this troubling homophony come about? Queen comes from Old English cwēn, pronounced (kwān) and meaning "queen, wife of a king." The Old English word descends from Germanic *kwēn-iz, "woman, wife, queen," a derivative of the Germanic root *kwen-, "woman." Modern English quean, on the other hand, descends from another Old English word, cwene, pronounced (kwĕn′ə) and meaning "woman, female, female serf." The Germanic source of cwene is *kwen-ōn-, "woman, wife." This Germanic word is a derivative of the same root *kwen-, "woman, wife," that is the source of Modern English queen. From the eleventh century onward, qwen, the Middle English descendant of Old English cwene, "woman, female serf," and ancestor of Modern English quean, was also used to mean "prostitute." Once established, this pejorative sense of quean drove out its neutral senses, and especially in the 16th and 17th centuries, the word was used almost solely to refer to prostitutes. Around the same time, in many English dialects the pronunciation of queen and quean became identical, leading to the obsolescence of the latter term outside of a few regions. The Germanic root *kwen-, "woman," comes by Grimm's Law from the Indo-European root *g^wen-, "woman," which appears in at least two other English words borrowed from elsewhere in the Indo-European family. One is gynecology, from Greek gunē, "woman." Another, less obvious, one is banshee, "woman of the fairies," the wailing female spirit attendant on a death, from Old Irish ben, "woman."

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queen

(kwiːn)

n

1. (Government, Politics & Diplomacy) a female sovereign who is the official ruler or head of state

2. (Government, Politics & Diplomacy) the wife or widow of a king

3. a woman or a thing personified as a woman considered the best or most important of her kind: a beauty queen; the queen of ocean liners.

4. slang an effeminate male homosexual

5. (Zoology)

a. the only fertile female in a colony of social insects, such as bees, ants, and termites, from the eggs of which the entire colony develops

b. (as modifier): a queen bee.

6. (Zoology) an adult female cat

7. (Card Games) one of four playing cards in a pack, one for each suit, bearing the picture of a queen

8. (Chess & Draughts) a chess piece, theoretically the most powerful piece, able to move in a straight line in any direction or diagonally, over any number of squares

vb

9. (Chess & Draughts) chess to promote (a pawn) to a queen when it reaches the eighth rank

10. (Government, Politics & Diplomacy) (tr) to crown as queen

11. (intr) informal (of a gay man) to flaunt one's homosexuality

12. (Government, Politics & Diplomacy) (intr) to reign as queen

13. queen it (often foll by over) informal to behave in an overbearing manner

[Old English cwēn; related to Old Saxon quān wife, Old Norse kvæn, Gothic qēns wife]

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Queen

(kwiːn)

n

(Biography) Ellery (ˈɛlərɪ). pseudonym of Frederic Dannay (1905–82) and Manfred B. Lee (1905–71), US co-authors of detective novels featuring a sleuth also called Ellery Queen

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queen

(kwin)

n.

1. a female sovereign or monarch.

2. the wife or consort of a king.

3. a woman, or something personified as a woman, preeminent in some respect: a beauty queen; Athens, the queen of the Aegean.

4. Slang.

a. Usually Disparaging and Offensive. (a term used to refer to a male homosexual, esp. one who is flamboyantly campy.)

b. drag queen.

5. a playing card bearing a picture of a queen.

6. the most powerful chess piece of either color, able to be moved across any number of empty squares in any direction.

7. a fertile female ant, bee, termite, or wasp.

8. a word formerly used in communications to represent the letter Q.

v.i.

9. to reign as queen.

10. to behave in an imperious or pretentious manner (usu. fol. by it).

11. (of a pawn in chess) to become promoted to a queen.

v.t.

12. to make a queen of; crown.

[before 900; Middle English quene, quen, Old English cwēn woman, queen, c. Old Norse kvān, Gothic qēns]

usage: Definition 4a is usually used with disparaging intent and perceived as insulting. However, it is also used by homosexuals as a positive term of self-reference.

Queen

(kwin)
n.

Ellery, joint pen name of Manfred Bennington Lee and Frederic Dannay.

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queen

(kwēn)

The fertile, fully developed female in a colony of social bees, ants, or termites. The queen's sole function is to lay eggs.

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queen

- A litter-bearing female cat.

See also related terms for litter.

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queen

Past participle: queened
Gerund: queening

Imperative

queen

queen

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Thesaurus

Noun	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
	2.	queen - a female sovereign ruler     female monarch, queen regnant 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 king, male monarch, Rex - a male sovereign; ruler of a kingdom
	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
	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"
	5.	queen - a competitor who holds a preeminent position world-beater, king 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"
	6.	queen - offensive term for an openly homosexual man fag, faggot, fagot, poof, poove, pouf, queer, nance, fairy, pansy derogation, disparagement, depreciation - a communication that belittles somebody or something gay man, shirtlifter - a homosexual man
	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
	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
	9.	queen - 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 queen mole rat 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
	10.	queen - female cat tabby domestic cat, Felis catus, Felis domesticus, house cat - any domesticated member of the genus Felis
Verb	1.	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
	2.	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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queen

noun

1. sovereign, ruler, monarch, leader, Crown, princess, majesty, head of state, Her Majesty, empress, crowned head the time she met the Queen

2. leading light, star, favourite, celebrity, darling, mistress, idol, big name, doyenne the queen of crime writing

3. (Informal) homosexual, gay, queer (informal, derogatory), homo (informal, derogatory), jessie (slang), pansy (informal, derogatory), homosexual man, poof (Brit. & Austral. derogatory slang), effeminate man, diva, prima donna, batty boy (slang), camp man, shirt-lifter (derogatory slang), woofter (derogatory slang) What a boring old queen he was.

Quotations
"queen: a woman by whom the realm is ruled when there is a king, and through whom it is ruled when there is not" [Ambrose Bierce The Devil's Dictionary]
"I'd like to be a queen of people's hearts, in people's hearts, but I don't see myself being Queen of this country" [Diana, Princess of Wales]

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Translations

اللواطي الذي يَتَّخِذ دور الأنْثىالمَلِكَهالمَلِكَه في لُعْبَة الشَّطْرَنجبِنت في وَرَق اللَّعِبزَوجَة المَلِك، مَلِكَه

královnadámakrálteploušbuzerant

dronningbøssedame=-dronning

KöniginDameTuntePornoqueenTranse

βασίλισσαπούστης

reĝino

reinareinonadamalocamarica

kuningatarmatriarkkanaaraskissavaltiatarhomo

reinedamefollepédé

kraljicadama

dámahomoszexuális férfikirálynékirályné/nõkirálynő

ratu

drottninglæða

reginaape reginadonnagattaincoronare

クイーン女王

여왕

regina

kaip karalienėskaralienėkaralienė motinamotinėlėvaldovė

dāmakaralienemātepasīvais homoseksuālists

damekoninginvrouw

dronning

królowapedałcarycaciotadama

rainhadama

damăregină

королеваферзьцарицадамаматка

homosexuál v úlohe ženykráľovná

kraljicamaticadama

drottningfjollabögdam

พระราชินี

kraliçevezirkızkraliçesipasif eşcinsel

hoàng hậunữ hoàngvợ vua

女王扑克牌中的王后王后男同性恋的女性角色专门产卵的雌虫

queen

[kwiːn]

A. N

1. (= monarch) → reina f (Chess) → reina f (Cards) → dama f; (in Spanish pack) → caballo m
she was queen to Charles II → era la reina de Carlos II

2. (Zool) (also queen bee) → abeja f reina; (= ant) → hormiga f reina

3. → marica m (pej)

B. VT (Chess) [+ pawn] → coronar
to queen it → conducirse como una reina (fig) → pavonearse

C. VI (Chess) → ser coronado

D. CPD Queen's Bench N (Brit) departamento del Tribunal Supremo de Justicia
queen mother N → reina f madre
Queen's Counsel N (Brit) → abogado mf (de categoría superior) QC/KC

QUEEN'S/KING'S SPEECH

En el Reino Unido, el Queen's o King's Speech es el discurso que el monarca dirige cada año a las dos cámaras del Estado en la apertura del nuevo curso parlamentario. El discurso se retransmite por radio y televisión y es preparado por el gobierno, ya que en él se indican las directrices del programa de gobierno para el curso que comienza, así como la nueva legislación que se introducirá ese año. Para seguir con la tradición, en este discurso el monarca sigue refiriéndose al gobierno como my government.

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queen

[ˈkwiːn] n

(= monarch) → reine f
Queen Elizabeth → la reine Élisabeth
Queen Victoria → la reine Victoria

(= king's wife) → reine f

(= woman or thing considered the best) → reine f
the queen of crime fiction → la reine du roman policier

(in cards) → dame f
the queen of hearts → la dame de cœur

(in chess) → dame f

(= bee) → reine fqueen bee n

(ZOOLOGY) → reine f des abeilles

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queen

n

(also fig) → Königin f; she was queen to George V → sie war die Gemahlin von Georg V.; queen of the May → Maikönigin f

(= bee, ant etc) → Königin f

(Cards) → Dame f; queen of spades → Pikdame

(Chess) → Dame f; queen’s bishop/pawn → Damenläufer/-bauer m

(inf: = homosexual) → Tunte f (inf)

vt

(Chess) → in eine Dame verwandeln or umwandeln

(inf) to queen it → die große Dame spielen; to queen it over somebody → jdn herumkommandieren (inf)

vi (Chess) → sich in eine Dame verwandeln

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queen

:

Queen-Anne

adj style, furniture, building → Queen-Anne-; queen style furniture → Möbel pl → im Queen-Anne-Stil

queen bee

n → Bienenkönigin f; she’s the queen round here (fig inf) → sie ist hier die Nummer eins (inf)

queen cake

n → kleiner Rosinenkuchen

queen consort

n → Königin f, → Gemahlin f → des Königs

queen dowager

n → Königinwitwe f

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queen

:

queen mother

n → Königinmutter f

Queen’s Bench

n → Oberster Gerichtshof

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queen

[kwiːn] n → regina (Cards, Chess) → regina, donna
Queen Elizabeth → la regina Elisabetta

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queen

(kwiːn) noun

1. a woman who rules a country, who inherits her position by right of birth. the Queen of England; Queen Elizabeth II. koningin المَلِكَه кралица rainha královna die Königin dronning βασίλισσαreina kuninganna ملکه kuningatar reineמלכה रानी kraljica királynő ratu drottning regina 女王 여왕 karalienė karaliene ratu koningindronningkrólowa ملكه: دپاچا ماينه: نامتو ښځه: (په شطرنج كې) وزير rainha regină королева kráľovná kraljica kraljica drottning พระราชินี kraliçe 女王 королева ملکہ nữ hoàng 女王

2. the wife of a king. The king and his queen were both present. koningin زَوجَة المَلِك، مَلِكَه кралица rainha královna die Königin dronning η σύζυγος βασιλιά, βασίλισσαreina kuninganna همسر پادشاه kuningatar reineמלכה रानी kraljica királyné permaisuri drottning regina 王妃 왕비 karalienė karaliene permaisuri koningindronningkrólowa, królewska małżonka دپاچا ماينه rainha regină королева kráľovná kraljica kraljica drottning ราชินี kraliçe 王后 королева بادشاہ کی بیوی hoàng hậu 王后

3. a woman who is in some way important, excellent or special. a beauty queen; a movie queen. koningin مَلِكَة الجَمال царица rainha královna die Königin -dronning ξεχωριστή γυναίκα, βασίλισσαreina kuninganna زنی که از جهتی سرآمد و زبده است kuningatar reine מַלכָּת- महत्वपूर्ण महिला kraljica királynő ratu (fegurðar)drottning regina ～の女王 (어떤 분야 등에서) 중요한 여성 karalienė, pažiba karaliene ratu koningindronningkrólowa نامتو ښځه rainha regină королева kráľovná kraljica kraljica drottning เหมือนราชินี ... kraliçesi 出眾的女人 королева; богиня کوئی عورت جسے کسی میدان میں امتیازی حیثیت حاصل ہو nữ chúa 出众的女人

4. a playing-card with a picture of a queen on it. I have two aces and a queen. koningin بِنت في وَرَق اللَّعِب царица dama král(ovna) die Dame dronning ντάμαdama emand بی بی kuningatar dameמלכה रानी dama (kártyában) dáma ratu (kartu) drottning regina, donna クイーン (카드놀이) 퀸 dama dāma ratu koningindamedama ملكه dama damă дама kráľ, kráľovná dama dama dam ไพ่ควีน kız, dam (撲克牌中的)王后 дама تاش کا تصویر والا پتہ ، بیگم quân đầm （扑克牌中的）王后

5. an important chess-piece. a bishop, a king and a queen. koningin المَلِكَه في لُعْبَة الشَّطْرَنج царица rainha dáma die Dame dronning βασίλισσαreina lipp وزیر kuningatar reineמלכה वजीर kraljica (sakkban) vezér, királynő ratu (catur) drottning regina クイーン (체스) 여왕 valdovė, karalienė dāma menteri koningindronning hetman, królowa (په شطرنج كې) وزير rainha damă ферзь dáma kraljica kraljica drottning, dam เหมือนราชินี vezir; kız (國際象棋中的)王后 ферзь شطرنج کا سب سے زوردار مہرہ quân hậu （国际象棋中的）王后

6. the egg-laying female of certain kinds of insect (especially bees, ants and wasps). koningin مَلِكَة النَّحِل، اليَعْسوب царица майка rainha královna die Königin dronning; -dronning βασίλισσαreina ema ملکه kuningatar reine מַלכָּת- मादा matica királynő ratu serangga drottning regina 女王蜂など (벌, 개미 등의) 여왕 motinėlė māte ratu koningindronningkrólowa ملكه rainha re­gi­nă матка kráľovná matica matica drottning นางพญาผึ้ง kraliçe, ece 專門產卵的雌蟲(尤指女王蜂、蟻后) матка چیونٹیوں اور شہد کی مکھی میں بچے پیدا کرنے والی ملکہ ong chúa; kiến chúa 专门产卵的雌虫（尤指女王蜂、蚁后）

7. (slang) a homosexual man who assumes the female role. queen اللواطي الذي يَتَّخِذ دور الأنْثى педераст bicha teplouš, buzerant die Queen, die Transe bøsse παθητικός ομοφυλόφιλος (λαϊκ.) marica naiselik homoseksuaal همجنس باز homo הוֹמוֹסֶקסוּאָל महिला भुमिका निभाने वाला समलैंगिक homić homoszexuális férfi (a nő szerepében) laki-laki homoseks yang berperan sebagai perempuan checca 男の同性愛者の女性役 동성애자 pederastas pasīvais homoseksuālists pondan, bapuk travestiethomse ciota كاكو، همجنس باز гомосексуалист homosexuál v úlohe ženy dama homoseksualac bög, fjolla กระเทย pasif eşcinsel (俚)扮演女性角色的男同性戀者 гомосексуаліст, що грає роль жінки ہم جنس پرست مرد جو عورت کا کردار نبھائے kẻ đồng tính luyến ái （俚）男同性恋的女性角色

ˈqueenly adjective

of, like or suitable for, a queen. statig, koninginagtig مَلَكي، لائِق بِمَلِكَه царствен como uma rainha královský wie eine Königin dronningeagtig βασιλικός de reina kuningannalik ملکه وار kuningatarmainen de reine כְּמו מַלכָּה रानी जैसा poput kraljice királynői seperti ratu drottningar-, drottningarlegur da regina 女王のような 여왕의 (kaip) karalienės, karališkas karalisks; karalienes- seperti ratu majesteitelijk dronning-, dronningaktigkrólewski دملكى په شان، دملكي سره وړ como uma rainha (ca) de regină королевский kráľovský kraljevski, kraljičin kraljičin drottninglik, som anstår en drottning, drottning- เกี่ยวกับราชินี kraliçe gibi 女王般的，適合女王的 притаманний королеві, королевський ملکہ کے لائق như bà hoàng 女王的，适合女王的

queen mother

the mother of the reigning king or queen, who was herself once a queen. koningin-moeder المَلِكَه الأم кралица майка rainha-mãe královna matka die Königinmutter dronningemoder βασιλομήτωρ reina madre kuninga(nna) ema, leskkuninganna ملکه مادر kuningataräiti reine mère הַמַלכָּה הַאֵם राजमाता majka kraljice anyakirályné ibu suri drottningarmóðir regina madre 皇太后 황태후 karalienė motina karaliene māte bonda ratu koningin-moeder dronningmoren; enkedronning królowa matka ملکه موری rainha-mae re­gi­na mamă королева-мать kráľovná matka kraljica mati kraljica majka drottningmoder ราชินีม่ายของกษัตริย์องค์ก่อน ana kraliçe 皇太后 королева-мати تخت نشین بادشاہ یا ملکہ کی والدہ hoàng thái hậu 皇太后

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queen

→ مَلِكَة královna dronning Königin βασίλισσα reina kuningatar reine kraljica regina 女王 여왕 koningin dronning królowa rainha королева drottning พระราชินี kraliçe nữ hoàng 女王

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