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'queen' - used as a noun
1. the only fertile female in a colony of social insects such as bees and ants and termites; its function is to lay eggs
2. a female sovereign ruler
3. the wife or widow of a king
4. 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
5. a competitor who holds a preeminent position
6. offensive term for an openly homosexual man
7. one of four face cards in a deck bearing a picture of a queen
8. (chess) the most powerful piece
9. 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
10. female cat

'queen' - used as a verb
11. promote to a queen, as of a pawn in chess
12. become a queen
her pawn queened

derived forms
1. Queen / Plural
queens
2. Queen / Past
queened
3. Queen / Third Person
queens
4. Queen / Present Participle
queening
Variations of 'queen'
 
Antonym
  • king
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    Give me the money that has been spent in war and I will clothe every man, woman, and child in an attire of which kings and queens will be proud. I will build a schoolhouse in every valley over the whole earth. I will crown every hillside with a place of worship consecrated to peace. - Click here to find out.
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    The sole purpose of a drone bee is to mate with the queen bee.