1. A borough of New York City

1. The only fertile female in a colony of social insects such as bees and ants and termites; its function is to lay eggs 
2. A female sovereign ruler
   - queen regnant, female monarch 
3. The wife or widow of a king 
4. Something personified as a woman who is considered the best or most important of her kind
   "Paris is the queen of cities"; "the queen of ocean liners" 
5. A competitor who holds a preeminent position
   - king, world-beater 
6. [offensive] A homosexual man 
7. One of four face cards in a deck bearing a picture of a queen 
8. (chess) the most powerful piece 
9. An especially large mole rat and the only member of a colony of naked mole rats to bear offspring which are sired by only a few males
   - queen mole rat 
10. Female cat
    - tabby

1. Promote to a queen, as of a pawn in chess 
2. Become a queen
   "her pawn queened"

Sounds like: queans

See also: queenly

Type of: borough, challenger, chess piece, chessman, competition, competitor, contender, court card, domestic cat, face card, Felis catus, Felis domesticus, female aristocrat, gay man, house cat, insect, naked mole rat, personification, picture card, promote, rival, shirtlifter

Antonym: king

Part of: Big Apple, deck, deck of cards, Greater New York, New York, New York City, NYC, pack of cards, royal family, royal house, royal line, royalty

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• reappearance
• reapplication
• reapply
• reappoint
• reappointment
• reapportion
• reapportionment
• reappraisal
• reappraise
• rear
• rear admiral
• rear back
• rear lamp
• rear light
• rear of barrel
• rear of tube
• rear window
• rear-end
• rearguard
• rearing
• rearm
• rearmament
• rearmost
• rearrange
• rearrangement