| 单词 | queen |
| 释义 | Word Frequency queen(kwiːn) noun 1. a female sovereign who is the official ruler or head of state 2. 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, sometimes offensive an effeminate homosexual man 5. 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. an adult female cat 7. one of four playing cards in a pack, one for each suit, bearing the picture of a queen 8. 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 verb 9. chess to promote (a pawn) to a queen when it reaches the eighth rank 10. (transitive) to crown as queen 11. (intransitive) informal, sometimes offensive (of a gay man) to flaunt one's homosexuality 12. (intransitive) to reign as queen 13. queen it Word origin Old English cwēn; related to Old Saxon quān wife, Old Norse kvæn, Gothic qēns wifeWord Frequency Queen(kwiːn) noun Ellery (ˈɛlərɪ). pseudonym of Frederic Dannay (1905–82) and ManfredB. Lee (1905–71), US co-authors of detective novels featuring a sleuth also called Ellery Queen |
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