Queen

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File:Chess queen 0964.jpg
A queen (chess)

Noun

Queen (plural Queens)
  1. A female monarch. Example: Queen Victoria
  2. The wife or widow of a king. Example: Queen Elizabeth, the Queen Mother
  3. (chess) The most powerful piece, able to move any number of spaces horizontally, vertically, or diagonally.
  4. (card games) A playing card with the picture of a queen on its face, the twelfth card in a given suit.
  5. A powerful or forceful female person.
  6. (derogatory, slang) An effeminate male homosexual. See drag queen.
  7. A reproductive female animal in a hive, such as an ant, bee, termite or wasp
  8. An adult female cat valued for breeding. See tom.

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Derived terms

Terms derived from queen

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Verb

Queen (third-person singular simple present queens, present participle queening, simple past and past participle queened)

  1. to make a queen
  2. (chess) to promote a pawn, usually to a queen.
  3. (BDSM, slang, transitive, of a female) To sit on the face of (a partner) to receive oral sex.
    • 2000, "Lorelei", The Mistress Manual: The Good Girl's Guide to Female Dominance
      Try Queening him. Have him lie on his back while you sit on his face (make sure he has an airway through either his mouth or his nose).
    • 2007, Madelynne Ellis, Dark Designs
      ...not Eloise, sat queening him. He couldn't wait to tip her velvet. He wanted to come, but not here, with these three. It was time to extract himself.

Adjectives for Queen

refulgent; haughty; fairy; pale; papist; fiend-like; gracious; love-sick; mob-led; stately; legitimate; buxom; helmeted; amorous; crownless; well-intentioned; dark; peerless; uncrowned; crafty; potent.

Verbs for Queen

attend—; crown—; escort—; guard—; honor—; pamper—; revere—; salaam before —; serve—; squire—; —abdicates; —appeals to; —ascends; —assigns; —com¬mends; —dazzles; —orders; —punishes; — reigns; —rewards; —rules; —symbolizes.

Thesaurus

Kaiserin, ace, ant, army ant, auntie, beauty queen, bee, begum, best bower, bi-guy, bisexual, bishop, black ant, bower, bull dyke, bumblebee, butch, cards, carpenter ant, castle, catamite, champion, chessman, chicken, choice, chosen, clubs, cream, crown princess, cynosure, czarina, deck, deuce, diamonds, diva, drone, dummy, dyke, elect, elite, emmet, empress, epitome, face cards, fag, faggot, fairy, fat, femme, fire ant, flit, flower, flush, fricatrice, fruit, full house, grand duchess, gunsel, hand, hearts, homo, homophile, homosexual, homosexualist, honeybee, hornet, house ant, idol, infanta, invert, jack, joker, king, knave, knight, kumari, kunwari, leader, leading light, left bower, lesbian, maharani, malikzadi, man, model, monarch, nance, nonesuch, nonpareil, optimum, pack, pair, pansy, paragon, pathic, pawn, pick, picture cards, piece, pismire, playing cards, prima donna, prime, princess, princesse, prize, punk, queen bee, queen consort, queen dowager, queen regent, queen regnant, queer, quintessence, raj-kumari, rani, red ant, rook, round, royal flush, rubber, ruff, ruler, sapphist, select, shahzadi, singleton, slave ant, soldier, sovereign, sovereign princess, sovereign queen, spades, star, straight, superlative, termite, the best, the best ever, the tops, the very best, trey, tribade, trick, trump, wasp, worker, yellow jacket

Etymology

From Middle English quene, from Old English cwēn, cwene. The same Middle English word also yielded quean. Ultimately from Proto-Germanic *kwēniz, from Proto-Indo-European *gʷḗn (“woman”).

Pronunciation

Translations

Noun

female monarch
wife of a king
chess piece
playing card
powerful or forceful female person
slang: male homosexual
reproductive female animal in a hive
adult female cat
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See also

See also

Verb

to make a queen
chess: to convert a pawn into a queen
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