Noun | 1. | ![]() |
2. | ![]() Synonyms: female monarch, queen regnant Antonyms: king, male monarch - a male sovereign; ruler of a kingdom | |
3. | queen - the wife or widow of a king | |
4. | 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" | |
5. | queen - a competitor who holds a preeminent position Synonyms: world-beater, king | |
6. | queen - offensive terms for an openly homosexual man | |
7. | queen - one of four face cards in a deck bearing a picture of a queen | |
8. | queen - (chess) the most powerful piece | |
9. | queen - especially large and only member of a colony of naked mole rats to bear offspring sired by only a few males | |
10. | queen - female cat Synonyms: tabby | |
Verb | 1. | queen - promote to a queen, as of a pawn in chess |
2. | queen - become a queen; "her pawn queened" |
QUEEN. There are several kinds of queens in some countries. 1. Queen
regnant, is a woman who possesses in her own right the executive power of
the country.
2. Queen consort, is the wife of a king.
3. Queen dowager is the widow of a king. In the United States there is
no one with this title.