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1. A female sovereign ruler
   - queen regnant, female monarch
    
2. The wife or widow of a king
    
3. The only fertile female in a colony of social insects such as bees and ants and termites; its function is to lay eggs
    
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
   - king, world-beater
    
6. One of four face cards in a deck bearing a picture of a queen
    
7. (chess) piece able to move both horizontally and diagonally any number of spaces; most powerful piece
    
8. 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
   - queen mole rat
    
9. An adult female cat valued for breeding
   - tabby
    
10. [offensive] A male homosexual

1. Promote to a queen, as of a pawn in chess
    
2. (chess) become a queen
   "her pawn queened"

Sounds like: quean

Derived forms: queened, queens, queening

Type of: cat, challenger, chess piece, chessman, competition, competitor, contender, court card, domestic cat, face card, Felis catus, Felis domesticus, female aristocrat, house cat, insect, kitty [informal], kitty-cat [informal], mog [Brit, informal], moggie [Brit, informal], moggy [Brit, informal], naked mole rat, personification, picture card, promote, puss [informal], pussy [informal], pussycat [informal], rival

Antonym: king

Part of: deck, deck of cards, pack [Brit], pack of cards, royal family, royal house, royal line, royalty

Encyclopedia: Queen, Patrick