queen meaning and definition

QUEEN noun

Definition of queen (noun)

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
   • synonyms: female monarch, queen regnant
   • antonym: king
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
   • synonyms: king, world-beater
6. offensive term for an openly homosexual man
   • synonyms: fag, faggot, fagot, fairy, nance, pansy, poof, poove, pouf, queer
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
   • synonyms: queen mole rat
10. female cat
    • synonyms: tabby

QUEEN verb

Definition of queen (verb)

1. promote to a queen, as of a pawn in chess
2. become a queen
   • "her pawn queened"