Overview of noun queen

The noun queen has 10 senses

• queen -- (the only fertile female in a colony of social insects such as bees and ants and termites; its function is to lay eggs)


• queen, queen regnant, female monarch -- (a female sovereign ruler)


• queen -- (the wife or widow of a king)


• queen -- (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")


• king, queen, world-beater -- (a competitor who holds a preeminent position)


• fagot, faggot, fag, fairy, nance, pansy, queen, queer, poof, poove, pouf -- (offensive term for an openly homosexual man)


• queen -- (one of four face cards in a deck bearing a picture of a queen)


• queen -- ((chess) the most powerful piece)


• queen, queen mole rat -- (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)


• tabby, queen -- (female cat)

Overview of verb queen

The verb queen has 2 senses

• queen -- (promote to a queen, as of a pawn in chess)


• queen -- (become a queen; "her pawn queened")