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queen

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queen in WordNet English dictionary

noun
  1. offensive term for an openly homosexual man
    fagot  faggot  fag  fairy  nance  pansy  queen  queer  poof  poove  pouf 
  2. a female sovereign ruler
    queen  queen regnant  female monarch 
  3. a competitor who holds a preeminent position
    king  queen  world-beater 
  4. the only fertile female in a colony of social insects such as bees and ants and termites; its function is to lay eggs
    queen 
  5. 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  queen mole rat 
  6. female cat
    tabby  queen 
  7. (chess) the most powerful piece
    queen 
  8. one of four face cards in a deck bearing a picture of a queen
    queen 
  9. the wife or widow of a king
    queen 
  10. 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"
    queen 
verb
  1. become a queen
    "her pawn queened"
    queen 
  2. promote to a queen, as of a pawn in chess
    queen 
WordNet Lexical Database v3.0, © 2006 Princeton University