Queen meaning

What does “queen” mean? Definitions, examples, synonyms and opposites.

“queen” is a noun and verb with 12 meanings. Its most common meaning is: the only fertile female in a colony of social insects such as bees and ants and termites; its function is to lay eggs.

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

    Oppositesking
  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

  6. offensive term for a homosexual man

  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

  10. female cat

    Synonymstabby

verb

  1. promote to a queen, as of a pawn in chess

  2. become a queen

    “her pawn queened”

Source: WordNet 3.1, Princeton University