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UK
/kwˈiːn/
]
[ US /ˈkwin/ ]
[ US /ˈkwin/ ]
NOUN
- a competitor who holds a preeminent position
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something personified as a woman who is considered the best or most important of her kind
the queen of ocean liners
Paris is the queen of cities - offensive term for a homosexual man
- the wife or widow of a king
- 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
- (chess) the most powerful piece
- one of four face cards in a deck bearing a picture of a queen
- the only fertile female in a colony of social insects such as bees and ants and termites; its function is to lay eggs
- female cat
- a female sovereign ruler
VERB
- promote to a queen, as of a pawn in chess
-
become a queen
her pawn queened
How To Use queen In A Sentence
- Anybody who has ever been on a North Queensland pastoral lease knows that you can go 20, 30, 40 miles day after day and all you will see is a few brumbies and some wild pigs; you will not see any cattle anywhere.
- After a bit of a stickybeak at the Queen's Scottish residence of Holyroodhouse, we made the most of the remaining daylight walking the length of the Royal Mile through the Old Town back to the castle, stopping by the Heart of Midlothian. TravelPod.com TravelStream™ — Recent Entries at TravelPod.com
- The duke bowed to the Queen.
- Possibly one of the most compassionate pieces of music ever made, it asks us, no, arranges that we see the plight of what I'll be brutal and call a lovelorn drag queen with such intense empathy that when the singer hurts him, we do too. Archive 2009-02-01
- 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.
- In her current incarnation she is a demigoddess, the daughter of Zeus and Queen Hippolyta.
- I don't think they play at all fairly," Alice began, in rather a complaining tone, "and they all quarrel so dreadfully one can't hear oneself speak and they don't seem to have any rules in particular; at least, if there are, nobody attends to them -- and you've no idea how confusing it is all the things being alive; for instance, there's the arch I've got to go through next walking about at the other end of the ground -- and I should have croqueted the Queen's hedgehog just now, only it ran away when it saw mine coming! Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
- A range of events featuring freestyle, butterfly, sidestroke, backstroke and medley races saw the kids battle for supremacy as to who would be the king and queen of the pool in their age groups and for their swimming club.
- The list also includes Her Majesty The Queen, eight more Dukes, five Marquesses, thirteen Earls, five Viscounts, twenty-three Lords, seven Baronets, fifty-four Knights, two Dames and six Ladies.
- The wives of a king, prince, duke, marquess, earl, viscount and baron are queen, princess, duchess, marchioness, countess, viscountess and baroness respectively.
