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单词 queenly
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Definition of queenly in English:

queenly

adjectivequeenlier, queenliest ˈkwiːnliˈkwinli
  • Resembling, fit for, or appropriate to a queen.

    a dark-haired woman of queenly manner
    Example sentencesExamples
    • And beyond those queenly duties, every other task in the hive - from gathering pollen to feeding larvae to flapping wings for air flow to cool the hive - can be done by any bee.
    • Maybe it's time for a real break anyway, rather than these forced little queenly waves from the carriage of my worldly cares.
    • Claudius sees through Gertrude's queenly behavior to the restlessness in her heart.
    • It's easy - and sometimes fun - to mock her queenly stature and cult following.
    • I came down and, in a pillared hall within the temple, the emperor stood in regal splendour - a queenly woman beside him - caught in a moment of deep crisis.
    • She continues: ‘But the woman inside that queenly thing, the ego, was a different matter.’
    • In either case, the story of queenly beauty would not be complete without the recognition that royal women have traditionally had far more chances than the average woman of actually being beautiful.
    • Apparently Her Majesty the Queen never travels without Malvern water, and there's certainly something queenly about the town that grew around the spa.
    • At her Julien Park, Diego Martin home, a gaunt, queenly 87-year-old Hazel sat on a sofa, staring into space.
    • Just four months before Pearl Harbor the queenly Augusta had carried President Roosevelt to a quiet Newfoundland bay for the first of many historic meetings with Winston Churchill.
    • Before the Second World War, actresses who played Titania usually aimed at an ethereal, queenly elegance and beauty.
    • My sister frequently demands queenly treatment, but her latest examples defy believability.
    • Matilda appears to have performed competently the expected queenly role of supporting her husband's rule and frequently acted as regent in England when he was in Normandy.
    • Likewise, Cameron's relation to her subjects does look hard and controlling, imperious at times, even queenly, and this is as much a part of its significance in a circle of mothers and daughters as its tenderness.
    • I was walking in queenly honor and majesty feeling enormous pleasure and gratitude to all in my life who bring me so much joy.
    • While Mary successfully projected queenly serenity, her place in political theory was another matter.
    • We should not mistake this set of influential women for a proof of female independence and autonomy: queenly power was often contested, and all the evidence we have for female autonomy shows it to have been both fragile and circumscribed.
    • She was a remarkably beautiful woman for her age, queenly and graceful.
    • Campbell worked with a dialect coach to perfect her queenly accent, which sounds fresh from the old British film Brief Encounter.
    • Hence the virginal Elizabeth, who was chaste and civilised where her queenly predecessor was promiscuous and barbaric.
    Synonyms
    exalted, august, great, awesome, elevated, sublime, lofty

Derivatives

  • queenliness

  • noun ˈkwiːnlɪnəsˈkwinlinəs
    • Queen Victoria's effigy, in various stages of queenliness, stands at many points in the metropolis.
      Example sentencesExamples
      • And let the last word quoted here be one of Elizabeth's own, illustrative of her strangely mingled temperament of queenliness and insolence.
      • The set of her head at downstage left and the slight angle of the jaw conveyed queenliness and deadly resolve.
      • Mary graduates from a tense, haunted guilt about her role in the murder of Darnley to a radiant, assured queenliness in the spiritual honesty and dignity with which she faces death.
      • As Matthew Woodcock points out, there have been many studies of queenliness in Spenser's The Faerie Queene, but very few that made sense of the poet's use of fairy.

Rhymes

cleanly
 
 

Definition of queenly in US English:

queenly

adjectiveˈkwinliˈkwēnlē
  • Fit for or appropriate to a queen.

    a dark-haired woman of queenly manner
    Example sentencesExamples
    • Campbell worked with a dialect coach to perfect her queenly accent, which sounds fresh from the old British film Brief Encounter.
    • I was walking in queenly honor and majesty feeling enormous pleasure and gratitude to all in my life who bring me so much joy.
    • Maybe it's time for a real break anyway, rather than these forced little queenly waves from the carriage of my worldly cares.
    • Apparently Her Majesty the Queen never travels without Malvern water, and there's certainly something queenly about the town that grew around the spa.
    • My sister frequently demands queenly treatment, but her latest examples defy believability.
    • At her Julien Park, Diego Martin home, a gaunt, queenly 87-year-old Hazel sat on a sofa, staring into space.
    • She continues: ‘But the woman inside that queenly thing, the ego, was a different matter.’
    • Just four months before Pearl Harbor the queenly Augusta had carried President Roosevelt to a quiet Newfoundland bay for the first of many historic meetings with Winston Churchill.
    • In either case, the story of queenly beauty would not be complete without the recognition that royal women have traditionally had far more chances than the average woman of actually being beautiful.
    • Before the Second World War, actresses who played Titania usually aimed at an ethereal, queenly elegance and beauty.
    • Likewise, Cameron's relation to her subjects does look hard and controlling, imperious at times, even queenly, and this is as much a part of its significance in a circle of mothers and daughters as its tenderness.
    • We should not mistake this set of influential women for a proof of female independence and autonomy: queenly power was often contested, and all the evidence we have for female autonomy shows it to have been both fragile and circumscribed.
    • Hence the virginal Elizabeth, who was chaste and civilised where her queenly predecessor was promiscuous and barbaric.
    • She was a remarkably beautiful woman for her age, queenly and graceful.
    • It's easy - and sometimes fun - to mock her queenly stature and cult following.
    • While Mary successfully projected queenly serenity, her place in political theory was another matter.
    • Claudius sees through Gertrude's queenly behavior to the restlessness in her heart.
    • And beyond those queenly duties, every other task in the hive - from gathering pollen to feeding larvae to flapping wings for air flow to cool the hive - can be done by any bee.
    • Matilda appears to have performed competently the expected queenly role of supporting her husband's rule and frequently acted as regent in England when he was in Normandy.
    • I came down and, in a pillared hall within the temple, the emperor stood in regal splendour - a queenly woman beside him - caught in a moment of deep crisis.
    Synonyms
    exalted, august, great, awesome, elevated, sublime, lofty
 
 
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