1. A borough of New York City, it is the easternmost, largest in area, and second-largest in population of New York City's five boroughs

1. A female sovereign ruler
   "Queen Elizabeth II was a queen regnant for over 70 years";
   - queen regnant, female monarch
    
2. The wife or widow of a king
   "The queen stood beside her husband at the coronation ceremony"
    
3. The only fertile female in a colony of social insects such as bees and ants and termites; its function is to lay eggs
   "The queen bee was surrounded by worker bees"
    
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. [informal] A homosexual man
   "before he came out he'd never been called a queen";
   - gay man, gay, fagot [N. Amer, informal], faggot [informal], fag [informal], fairy [informal], pansy [informal], poof [informal], pouf [informal]
    
6. One of four face cards in a deck bearing a picture of a queen
   "He drew the queen of hearts from the deck"
    
7. (chess) piece able to move both horizontally and diagonally any number of spaces; most powerful piece
   "She sacrificed her queen to set up a checkmate"
    
8. The sole breeding female in a naked mole rat colony
   "The queen mole rat can produce up to 900 pups in her lifetime";
   - queen mole rat
    
9. An adult female cat valued for breeding
   "The queen's pedigree made her highly sought after by breeders";
   - tabby
    
10. A female competitor who holds a preeminent position
    "She was crowned the beauty queen of the pageant"

1. Promote to a queen, as of a pawn in chess
   "She queened her pawn on the eighth rank, turning the tide of the game"
    
2. (chess) become a queen
   "her pawn queened"

Sounds like: queans

Type of: adult female, adult male, borough, bozo [N. Amer, informal], cat, chappie [Brit, informal], chess piece, chessman, court card, domestic cat, face card, Felis catus, Felis domesticus, female aristocrat, gay, geezer [Brit, informal], guy [informal], hombre [N. Amer, informal], homophile [archaic], homosexual, house cat, insect, kitty [informal], kitty-cat [informal], man, married woman, mog [Brit, informal], moggie [Brit, informal], moggy [Brit, informal], naked mole rat, personification, picture card, promote, puss [informal], pussy [informal], pussycat [informal], sod [informal], wife, wifey [informal], woman, world-beater

Antonym: Rex

Part of: Big Apple [informal], deck, deck of cards, Gotham [US, informal], Greater New York, New York, New York City, NYC, pack [Brit], pack of cards, royal family, royal house, royal line, royalty

Encyclopedia: Queens, New York City, New York