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Definition queen

Etymology

From Middle English quene, queen, cwen, from Old English cw?n (“queen”), from Proto-Germanic *kw?niz (“woman”), from Proto-Indo-European *g?énh?s (“woman”). Cognate with Scots queen, wheen (“queen”), Old Saxon qu?n ("wife"; > Middle Low German quene (“elderly woman”)), Dutch kween (“woman past child-bearing age”), Swedish kvinna (“woman”), Icelandic kvon (“wife”), Gothic ???? (q?ns, “wife”), Norwegian dialectal kvån (“wife”). Related to Old English cwene (“woman; female serf, quean”), see quean. Eclipsed non-native Middle English regina (“queen”), borrowed from Latin r?g?na (“queen”).

Noun

queen (plural queens)

1. A female monarch. Example: Queen Victoria.
2. The wife or widow of a king.
3. (chess) The most powerful piece, able to move any number of spaces horizontally, vertically, or diagonally.
4. (card games) A playing card with the letter "Q" and the image of a queen on it, the twelfth card in a given suit.
5. A red disk that is the most valuable piece in the Asian game of carom.
6. A powerful or forceful female person.
7. (LGBT, slang, often derogatory) An effeminate male homosexual. (See usage notes.)
8. A reproductive female animal in a hive, such as an ant, bee, termite or wasp.
9. An adult female cat valued for breeding. See also tom.
10. A queen olive.
11. A monarch butterfly (Danaus spp.)

Verb

queen (third-person singular simple present queens, present participle queening, simple past and past participle queened)

1. To make a queen.
2. (intransitive, obsolete) To act the part of a queen; to queen it.
3. (chess) To promote a pawn, usually to a queen.
4. (beekeeping) To provide with a new queen.
5. (beekeeping) To be the queen of a colony.
6. (BDSM, slang, transitive, of a female) To sit on the face of (a partner) to receive oral sex.

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