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queen

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[kween]

noun

  1. a female sovereign or monarch.

  2. the wife or consort of a king.

  3. a woman, or something personified as a woman, that is foremost or preeminent in any respect.

    a movie queen; a beauty queen; Athens, the queen of the Aegean.

    1. Slang: Usually Disparaging and Offensive.a term used to refer to a gay man, especially one who is flamboyantly campy or effeminate.

    2. drag queen.

  4. a playing card bearing a picture of a queen.

  5. Chess.the most powerful piece of either color, moved across any number of empty squares in any direction.

  6. Entomology.a fertile female ant, bee, termite, or wasp.

  7. a word formerly used in communications to represent the letter Q.



verb (used without object)

  1. to reign as queen.

  2. to behave in an imperious or pretentious manner (usually followed byit ).

  3. Chess.to become promoted to a queen.

Queen

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[kween]

noun

  1. Ellery, joint pen name of Manfred Bennington Lee and Frederick Dannay.

queen

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/ ɾː /

noun

  1. a female sovereign who is the official ruler or head of state

  2. the wife or widow of a king

  3. a woman or a thing personified as a woman considered the best or most important of her kind

    a beauty queen

    the queen of ocean liners

  4. slangan effeminate male homosexual

    1. the only fertile female in a colony of social insects, such as bees, ants, and termites, from the eggs of which the entire colony develops

    2. ( as modifier )

      a queen bee

  5. an adult female cat

  6. one of four playing cards in a pack, one for each suit, bearing the picture of a queen

  7. a chess piece, theoretically the most powerful piece, able to move in a straight line in any direction or diagonally, over any number of squares

“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

verb

  1. chess to promote (a pawn) to a queen when it reaches the eighth rank

  2. (tr) to crown as queen

  3. informal(intr) (of a gay man) to flaunt one's homosexuality

  4. (intr) to reign as queen

  5. informal(often foll by over) to behave in an overbearing manner

“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

Queen

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/ ɾː /

noun

  1. Ellery (ˈɛlərɪ). pseudonym of Frederic Dannay (1905–82) and Manfred B. Lee (1905–71), US co-authors of detective novels featuring a sleuth also called Ellery Queen

“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Sensitive Note

The term queen is usually used with disparaging intent and perceived as insulting when in reference to a gay man, especially one considered to be effeminate or flamboyant. However, within the gay community, it is sometimes used in a friendly, teasing, or facetious manner, and can also be a positive term of self-reference.
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Other 51Թ Forms

  • queenless adjective
  • queenlike adjective
  • underqueen noun
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51Թ History and Origins

Origin of queen1

First recorded before 900; Middle English quene, quen, Old English ŧ “woman, queen”; cognate with Old Saxon , Old Norse 챹, Gothic ŧԲ, from unattested Germanic ŧԾ-; akin to Old Irish ben, Greek woman, Russian á, Sanskrit jani “wڱ”
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51Թ History and Origins

Origin of queen1

Old English ŧ; related to Old Saxon wife, Old Norse 챹æ, Gothic ŧԲ wife
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The pair moved to London at the start of the 1980s, where Frankie worked as a traffic warden by day and a drag queen by night.

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Six of its campsites, each available to reserve through recreation.gov, offer yurts including queen beds with linens, down comforters and pillows, along with two nightstands and an oversized rug.

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It’s no wonder all she needed to become the latest “White Lotus” meme queen was a thick Southern accent and a bottle of Lorazepam.

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“Sheila was the queen, and she was great at it. She gave pointed notes: ‘This is what I think should happen.’”

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Belmont said he doesn’t know any drag queen or king who makes a living based solely on their performances.

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