| 单词 | queen of tides, heaven, etc |
| 释义 | > as lemmasqueen of tides, heaven, etc. b. That which in a particular sphere or area has pre-eminence or power comparable to that of a queen; spec. (a) the moon (see queen of the night n.): also queen of tides, heaven, etc. (chiefly poetic); (b) the pre-eminent or most admired city in a particular geographic region. See also Phrases 1.Often with connotations of beauty when used of a city (cf. sense 7a). ΘΚΠ the mind > goodness and badness > quality of being good > pre-eminence > [noun] > chief of its or his kind sunOE lordOE princec1225 primatec1384 princessc1390 giant1535 queen1554 first gentleman1584 Prester John1598 arch1605 gigant1610 principate1651 top-stone1659 first lady1677 Shakespeare1821 king1829 prius1882 aristocrat1883 Sun King1971 1554 D. Lindsay Dialog Experience & Courteour Prol. 153 Synthea, the hornit nychtis quene. a1616 W. Shakespeare Winter's Tale (1623) iv. iv. 146 Each your doing..Crownes what you are doing..That all your Actes, are Queenes . View more context for this quotation 1671 J. Milton Paradise Regain'd iv. 45 Great and glorious Rome, Queen of the Earth. View more context for this quotation 1734 M. Barber Poems 205 So Stars attend the beauteous Queen of Night; And faintly shine, nor emulate her Light. 1814 Ld. Byron Childe Harold: Cantos I & II (ed. 7) ii. lxxx. 109 The Queen of tides on high consenting shone. 1837 A. Alison Hist. Europe from French Revol. VI. xlviii. 495 The Emperor travelled..to Venice; he there admired the marble palaces, and varied scenery, and gorgeous architecture of the Queen of the Adriatic. 1851 San Francisco Picayune 19 Sept. 2/4 Some person, gifted with a sufficient amount of patience, may undertake to compile the history of San Francisco..the Queen of the Pacific. 1878 R. B. Smith Carthage 9 Destined..to become the Queen of the Mediterranean. 1928 Daily Express 11 Apr. 9/4 Venice,..the Queen of the Adriatic in its most trippery and least attractive garb. 1976 Amer. Hist. Rev. 81 732 One can question whether the Queen of the Bosphorus [sc. Byzantium] still enjoyed unchallenged commercial supremacy on the eve of the Fourth Crusade. 1977 H. Fast Immigrants i. 30 For almost nine weeks, the shattered city [sc. San Francisco], known not only as the ‘Queen of the Pacific’ but as the ‘queen of larceny’ as well, entered into a period of benign brotherhood. 2005 Herald Sun (Melbourne) (Nexis) 28 Dec. 80 The Queen of the Danube is fast becoming a fixture on the Euro tourist track. < as lemmas |
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