queen
kween
- n the only fertile female in a colony of social insects such as bees and ants and termites; its function is to lay eggs
- n a female sovereign ruler
- n the wife or widow of a king
- n 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 - n a competitor who holds a preeminent position
- n offensive term for an openly homosexual man
- n one of four face cards in a deck bearing a picture of a queen
- n (chess) the most powerful piece
- n 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
- n female cat
- v promote to a queen, as of a pawn in chess
- v become a queen
her pawn queened
- The primary purpose of a queen is to have children.