Definition, Meaning, Synonyms & Anagrams | English word QUEEN
QUEEN
Definitions of QUEEN
- The wife, consort, or widow of a king.
- A female monarch.
- A woman whose pre-eminence, power, or forcefulness is comparable to that of a queen.
- Something regarded as the greatest of its kind or as having pre-eminence or power comparable to that of a queen over a given area.
- thumb A reproductive female insect in a hive, such as an ant, bee, termite or wasp.
- An adult female cat capable of breeding.
- Referring to one of several items used in tabletop games:
- (obsolete) A type of flatfish, specifically the lemon sole.
- (rare) A queen apple.
- (originally, UK) A queen scallop.
- (construction, obsolete) Ellipsis of queen post.
- (now, chiefly, historical) A type of large roofing slate.
- (slang, sometimes, derogatory) A homosexual man, especially one regarded as effeminate.
- Ellipsis of queen olive.
- (LGBT, slang) Ellipsis of drag queen.
- (attributive, originally, North American) Pertaining to a queen-size bed or queen-size bedding.
- A monarch butterfly (Danaus spp., especially Danaus gilippus).
- (intransitive, obsolete) To act the part of a queen; to behave imperiously; to queen it.
- (transitive) To make a queen or (figuratively) to give the status of a queen.
- (chess) To promote a pawn to a queen.
- (beekeeping) To be the queen bee of a colony.
- (beekeeping) To provide with a new queen bee.
- (BDSM, slang, transitive, usually, of a woman) To sit on a person’s face to receive oral sex, typically while straddling the person’s head.
- Alternative letter-case form of queen ("consort or widow of a king")..
- Alternative letter-case form of queen ("female monarch")..
- A title used before the personal name of a queen.
- (World War II era, joint US/RAF) radiotelephony clear-code word for the letter Q.
- Alternative letter-case form of queen ("Virgin Mary")..
- In Commonwealth realms, the personification of the Crown, particularly in legal matters.
- A nicknames surname from nicknames, originating as a nickname.
- A unincorporated community in Eddy County, New Mexico, USA, named after the Queen Ranch.
- A unincorporated community in Bedford County, Pennsylvania, USA.
Number of letters
5
Is palindrome
No
Examples of Using QUEEN in a Sentence
- A writer during the "Golden Age of Detective Fiction", Christie has been called the "Queen of Crime"—a moniker which is now trademarked by her estate—or the "Queen of Mystery".
- 1172 – Henry the Young King and Margaret of France are crowned junior king and queen of England.
- He was the son (or grandson) of King Atreus and Queen Aerope, the brother of Menelaus, the husband of Clytemnestra, and the father of Iphigenia, Iphianassa, Electra, Laodike, Orestes and Chrysothemis.
- A son of John Hyrcanus, he inherited the throne from his brother Aristobulus I, and married his brother's widow, Queen Salome Alexandra.
- With his marriage to Urraca, queen regnant of Castile, León and Galicia, in 1109, he began to use, with some justification, the grandiose title Emperor of Spain, formerly employed by his father-in-law, Alfonso VI.
- 599 – Maya king Uneh Chan of Calakmul attacks rival city-state Palenque in southern Mexico, defeating queen Yohl Ik'nal and sacking the city.
- He was the second son of Queen Melisende and King Fulk, and succeeded his older brother King Baldwin III.
- Queen Cassiopeia understands that chaining Andromeda to a rock as a human sacrifice is what will appease Poseidon.
- It replaced "God Save the Queen" as the official national anthem by the Whitlam government in 1974, following an indicative opinion survey.
- She has been credited with helping to redefine contemporary R&B, pop, and hip hop, earning her the nicknames the "Princess of R&B" and "Queen of Urban Pop".
- During classical antiquity, the Nabataeans established their kingdom with Petra as the capital in 300 BCE, by 271 CE, the Palmyrene Empire with the capital Palmyra, led by Queen Zenobia, encompassed the Syria Palaestina, Arabia Petraea, and Egypt, as well as large parts of Anatolia.
- Queen Charlotte Sound defines its western side, while to the south lies Tory Channel, which is on the sea route between Wellington in the North Island to Picton.
- He was a successor of Moctezuma and his brothers were Emperors Tizoc and Ahuitzotl and his sister was the Queen Chalchiuhnenetzin.
- They put into effect the Treaty of Union agreed on 22 July 1706, which merged the previously separate Kingdom of England and Kingdom of Scotland into a single Kingdom of Great Britain, with Queen Anne as its sovereign.
- The book relates the story of a Jewish woman in Persia, born as Hadassah but known as Esther, who becomes queen of Persia and thwarts a genocide of her people.
- Little is known about his early life, but he may have been a sailor on privateer ships during Queen Anne's War before he settled on the Bahamian island of New Providence, a base for Captain Benjamin Hornigold, whose crew Teach joined around 1716.
- The estate and its original castle were bought from the Farquharson family in 1852 by Prince Albert, the husband of Queen Victoria.
- Mary I of England (1516–1558), Queen of England and Ireland, so called because of her persecution of Protestants.
- Its purpose is to enable the partnership to explore its possession of aces, kings and in some variants, the queen of trumps to judge whether a slam would be a feasible contract.
- The players, referred to as "White" and "Black", each control sixteen pieces: one king, one queen, two rooks, two bishops, two knights, and eight pawns.
- His other works include The African Queen (1935; turned into a 1951 film by John Huston) and The Good Shepherd (1955; turned into a 2020 film, Greyhound, adapted by and starring Tom Hanks).
- Christopher's career began during the reign of Queen Isabella Jagiellon, who administered the eastern territories of the Kingdom of Hungary on behalf of her son, John Sigismund Zápolya, from 1556 to 1559.
- It was created by Queen Anne in 1702 for John Churchill, 1st Earl of Marlborough (1650–1722), the noted military leader.
- 1577 – Courtiers Christopher Hatton and Thomas Heneage are knighted by Queen Elizabeth I of England.
- After the death of his father in 1562, he became a ward of Queen Elizabeth I and was sent to live in the household of her principal advisor, Sir William Cecil.
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