Dictionary definition · queen
noun
- the only fertile female in a colony of social insects such as bees and ants and termites; its function is to lay eggs
- a female sovereign ruler
- the wife or widow of a king
- something personified as a woman who is considered the best or most important of her kind"Paris is the queen of cities"
- offensive term for a homosexual man
- one of four face cards in a deck bearing a picture of a queen
- (chess) the most powerful piece
- 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
- female cat
- a female competitor who holds a preeminent position
verb
- promote to a queen, as of a pawn in chess
- become a queen"her pawn queened"
Source: Open English WordNet (CC BY 4.0).