| 单词 | queen regnant |
| 释义 | queen regnant (once / 214897 pages) n WORD FAMILY queen regnant USAGE EXAMPLESIn the case of a queen regnant these posts are occupied by ladies, called Ladies of the Bed-chamber. Various, The New Gresham Encyclopedia. Vol....(2010) I had rather be your running mate—Oh! you grand, lovable, vicious, merciless beast—than be queen regnant in heaven. Mayer, Frank, The Song of the Wolf(2010) Mary, our first queen regnant, was crowned at Westminster, Oct. Gossip, Giles, Coronation Anecdotes(2010) n a female sovereign ruler Syn|Ant|Exp|Hypo|Hyper female monarch, queen Rex, king, male monarch a male sovereign; ruler of a kingdom Cleopatra beautiful and charismatic queen of Egypt; mistress of Julius Caesar and later of Mark Antony; killed herself to avoid capture by Octavian (69-30 BC) Isabella the Catholicthe queen of Castile whose marriage to Ferdinand of Aragon in 1469 marked the beginning of the modern state of Spain; they instituted the Spanish Inquisition in 1478 and sponsored the voyages of Christopher Columbus in 1492 (1451-1504) Lydia Kamekeha Paki Liliuokalaniqueen of the Hawaiian islands (1838-1917) Mary Queen of Scotsqueen of Scotland from 1542 to 1567; as a Catholic she was forced to abdicate in favor of her son and fled to England where she was imprisoned by Elizabeth I; when Catholic supporters plotted to put her on the English throne she was tried and executed for sedition (1542-1587) AnneQueen of England and Scotland and Ireland; daughter if James II and the last of the Stuart monarchs; in 1707 she was the last English ruler to exercise the royal veto over parliament (1665-1714) Elizabeth IQueen of England from 1558 to 1603; daughter of Henry VIII and Anne Boleyn; she succeeded Mary I (who was a Catholic) and restored Protestantism to England; during her reign Mary Queen of Scots was executed and the Spanish Armada was defeated; her reign was marked by prosperity and literary genius (1533-1603) Elizabeth IIdaughter of George VI who became the Queen of England and Northern Ireland in 1952 on the death of her father (1926-) Lady Jane GreyQueen of England for nine days in 1553; she was quickly replaced by Mary Tudor and beheaded for treason (1537-1554) Bloody Marydaughter of Henry VIII and Catherine of Aragon who was Queen of England from 1553 to 1558; she was the wife of Philip II of Spain and when she restored Roman Catholicism to England many Protestants were burned at the stake as heretics (1516-1558) Mary IIQueen of England and Scotland and Ireland; she was the eldest daughter of James II and ruled jointly with her husband William III (1662-1694) Queen Victoriaqueen of Great Britain and Ireland and empress of India from 1837 to 1901; the last Hanoverian ruler of England (1819-1901) Queen of England the sovereign ruler of England female aristocrat a woman who is an aristocrat |
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