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queen I. \ˈkwēn\ noun (-s) Etymology: Middle English quen, quene, from Old English cwēn woman, wife, queen; akin to Old Saxon quān wife, Old Norse kvæn, kvān, Gothic qens wife, Old Irish ben woman, Greek gynē, Armenian kin, Sanskrit jani 1. a. : the wife or widow of a king b. : the wife or widow of a chief of a tribe (as of Indians) 2. a. : a woman who is the sovereign of a kingdom : a female monarch b. : chieftainess < queen of the Iroquois > < gypsy queen > 3. a. : a woman eminent in rank, power, or attractions < a queen in society > < movie queen > b. : a goddess or a thing personified as female and having supremacy in a specified realm < Venus, queen of love > < Paris, queen of cities > < a new liner to join the ocean queens > c. : a strikingly attractive girl or woman; especially : the winner of a beauty contest 4. : the most privileged piece in a set of chessmen having the power to move as either a rook or a bishop 5. : a playing card marked with a stylized figure of a queen and usually the initial letter Q 6. : the fertile fully developed female of social bees, ants, and termites whose function in the colony is to lay eggs — compare soldier, worker; see honeybee illustration 7. : a mature female cat; specifically : one kept for breeding 8. slang : homosexual • - to the queen's taste II. verb (-ed/-ing/-s) intransitive verb 1. : to act like a queen : behave in a queenly manner : put on airs < queens in and makes with a production — Julian Halevy > — usually used with formulary it < another woman queening it in the new penthouse — Helen Howe > 2. : to reign as queen 3. : to become a queen in chess transitive verb 1. : to promote (a pawn) to a queen in chess 2. : to reign over as queen 3. : to make a queen of < to queen a woman > 4. : to provide a queen for (as a hive of bees) III. Usage: usually capitalized Etymology: queen (I) — a communications code word for the letter q IV. variant of quean |