- queen - the only fertile female in a colony of social insects such as bees and ants and termites; its function is to lay eggs
--1 is a kind of insect
--1 has particulars: queen bee- queen, queen regnant, female monarch - a female sovereign ruler
--2 is a kind of female aristocrat
--2 is a member of royalty, royal family, royal line, royal house
Antonyms: king, male monarch
--2 has particulars:Queen of England; Cleopatra; Isabella I, Isabella the Catholic; Liliuokalani, Lydia Kamekeha Paki Liliuokalani; Mary Queen of Scots, Mary Stuart - queen - the wife or widow of a king
--3 is a kind of female aristocrat
--3 is a member of royalty, royal family, royal line, royal house
--3 has particulars:- 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"
--4 is a kind of personification
- king, queen, world-beater - a competitor who holds a preeminent position
--5 is a kind of rival, challenger, competitor, competition, contender
- fagot, faggot, fag, fairy, nance, pansy, queen, queer, poof, poove, pouf - offensive terms for an openly homosexual man
--6 is a kind of gay man, shirtlifter
- queen - one of four face cards in a deck bearing a picture of a queen
--7 is a kind of face card, picture card, court card
--7 is a member of pack of cards, deck of cards, deck- queen - (chess) the most powerful piece
--8 is a kind of chessman, chess piece
Derived forms: verb queen2, verb queen1 - queen - especially large and only member of a colony of naked mole rats to bear offspring sired by only a few males
--9 is a kind of naked mole rat
- tabby, queen - female cat
--10 is a kind of domestic cat, house cat, Felis domesticus, Felis catus
- queen, queen regnant, female monarch - a female sovereign ruler
- queen - promote to a queen, as of a pawn in chess
--1 is one way to promote
Sample sentence:Derived form: noun queen8
Somebody ----s something
- queen - become a queen; "her pawn queened"
--2 is one way to promote
Sample sentence:Derived form: noun queen8
Something ----s