Meaning of queen | Babel Free

Definitions

1. The wife, consort, or widow of a king.
2. Alternative letter-case form of queen (“consort or widow of a king”).
   alt-of
3. Alternative letter-case form of queen (“Virgin Mary”).
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4. A female monarch.
5. Alternative letter-case form of queen (“female monarch”).
   alt-of
6. In Commonwealth realms, the personification of the Crown, particularly in legal matters.
7. To become a queen in chess.
8. A woman whose pre-eminence, power, or forcefulness is comparable to that of a queen.
9. The Virgin Mary (especially in formulations such as Queen of Heaven, Queen of Glory).
10. A title used before the personal name of a queen.
11. A surname transferred from the nickname, originating as a nickname.
12. Of or relating to a queen-size bed: queen sheets; a queen bed skirt.
13. radiotelephony clear-code word for the letter Q.
14. An unincorporated community in Eddy County, New Mexico, United States, named after the Queen Ranch.
15. An excellent woman.
16. king
17. To act like a queen; domineer: queens it over the whole family.
18. An unincorporated community in Bedford County, Pennsylvania, United States.
19. A woman pre-eminent in a particular group or field.
20. third-person singular present indicative
21. Ellery, joint pen name of Manfred Bennington Lee and Frederic Dannay.
22. An attractive woman; a female partner in a romantic relationship.
    slang
23. The fertile, fully developed female in a colony of social bees, ants, or termites. The queen's sole function is to lay eggs.
24. A girl or woman chosen to preside in an honorary or ceremonial manner over a specified festivity or occasion, as May Queen, Homecoming Queen, prom queen, pearly queen.
25. of, like or suitable for, a queen. statig, koninginagtig مَلَكي، لائِق بِمَلِكَه царствен como uma rainha královský wie eine Königin dronningeagtig βασιλικός de reina kuningannalik ملکه وار kuningatarmainen de reine כְּמו מַלכָּה रानी जैसा poput kraljice királynői seperti ratu drottningar-, drottningarlegur da regina 女王のような 여왕의 (kaip) karalienės, karališkas karalisks; karalienes- seperti ratu majesteitelijk dronning-, dronningaktigkrólewski دملكى په شان، دملكي سره وړ como uma rainha (ca) de r...
26. Something regarded as the greatest of its kind or as having pre-eminence or power comparable to that of a queen over a given area.
27. the mother of the reigning king or queen, who was herself once a queen. koningin-moeder المَلِكَه الأم кралица майка rainha-mãe královna matka die Königinmutter dronningemoder βασιλομήτωρ reina madre kuninga(nna) ema, leskkuninganna ملکه مادر kuningataräiti reine mère הַמַלכָּה הַאֵם राजमाता majka kraljice anyakirályné ibu suri drottningarmóðir regina madre 皇太后 황태후 karalienė motina karaliene māte bonda ratu koningin-moeder dronningmoren; enkedronning królowa matka ملکه موری rainha-mae re­gi­n...
28. Referring to one of several items used in tabletop games:
29. A chess piece that, under contemporary rules, is the most powerful, able to move any number of spaces horizontally, vertically, or diagonally.
30. The wife or widow of a king.
31. A woman considered preeminent in a particular field: the reigning queen of hip-hop.
32. A playing card with a depiction of a queen on it, generally ranking next below the king and above the jack in a given suit.
33. Something having eminence or supremacy in a given domain and personified as a woman: Paris is regarded as the queen of cities.
34. A red disk that is the most valuable piece in the Asian game of carrom.
35. A reproductive female insect in a hive, such as an ant, bee, termite or wasp.
36. A type of flatfish, specifically the lemon sole.
    obsolete
37. A queen apple.
    rare
38. A queen scallop.
39. Ellipsis of queen post.
    abbreviation, alt-of, ellipsis, obsolete
40. A type of large roofing slate.
    historical
41. A homosexual man, especially one regarded as effeminate.
    derogatory, sometimes
42. An adult female cat capable of breeding.
43. Ellipsis of queen olive.
    abbreviation, alt-of, ellipsis
44. Ellipsis of drag queen.
    abbreviation, alt-of, ellipsis, slang
45. Pertaining to a queen-size bed or queen-size bedding.
    US, attributive
46. A monarch butterfly (Danaus spp., especially Danaus gilippus).

Equivalents

Examples

“The divorced king was looking for a new queen.”

“The king doth keepe his Reuels here to night. Take heede the Queene come not within his ſight.”

“But our mercifull Queene Elizabeth hath not burned the popiſh prieſtes on the alters where they committed idolatrie in ſaying of Maſſe, and worſhipped a piece of breade for the bodie of Chriſte (which ſhee might haue done if ſhee would) and yet you count not her for a godly and mercifull Queene.”

“In 1952, at the last accession, there were only eight members of the new entity taking shape in the outline of the British Empire. The Queen was the head of state in seven of them, and she was proclaimed Head of the Commonwealth to accommodate India’s lone status as a republic.”

“[…] and yet I will not ſay but amongſt duſt there is Pearle found, and in hard rockes Dyamonds of great value, and ſo amongſt many women there are ſome good, as that gracious and glorious Queene of all woman kinde the Virgin Mary the mother of al bliſſe, what wun her honour, but an humble minde and her paines and loue vnto our Sauiour Chriſt.”

“Always look after that girl, doc. She's a queen!”

“But now I was the Lord / Of this faire manſion,maſter of my ſeruants, / Queene ore my ſelfe : and euen now,but now.”

“Regardless of what one thinks of that Hollywoodish distortion of her life story, it did stimulate an interest in the late Lady Day, though one might speculate as to whether the effect would have been the same had the film starred someone other than Diana Ross, a reigning queen of pop culture.”

“Know you the town is full of folks? Know you the shows are full of queens? That every mail is full of jokes Born of the nation's brightest beans?”

“When I find my queen, we’re having a whole tribe like our grandparents used to swing it back in the day.”

“My mother was queen of the St. Patrick's Day parade when she was 19.”

“Thare saw I May, of myrthfull monethis quene.”

“The foregoing eleven chapters of criticism were but preludes to an assertion: of theology as itself a social science, and the queen of the sciences for the inhabitants of the altera civitas, on pilgrimage through this temporary world.”

“For this cauſe that when he [the pawn] can procede so well in warre, as to arriue at the laſte rancke of hys enemies, he is choſen and made the beſt piece of the playe, to wit, he is the Quene.”

“And, further, let us ſuppoſe, that your King is at Liberty to attack his Pawns upon one Side of the Board, by reckoning how many moves it will take your King to march and take thoſe two Pawns, and alſo, by adding the Number of Moves, which will be neceſſary for you to make a Queen with one of your Pawns: You will, by this Method, find out the exact number of Moves, before you can make a Queen.”

“There is 5. trumps beside the Queene, yᵉ hindmost yᵘ shalt finde her”

“Behold four Kings in majesty rever'd, / With hoary whiskers and a forky beard: / And four fair Queens whose hands sustain a flow'r / Th’ expressive emblem of their softer power; / Four Knaves, in garbs succinct, a trusty band, /Caps on their heads, and halberds in their hand; / And particolour’d troops, a shining train, / Draw forth to combat on the velvet plain.”

“Just remember that a nine or ten on the flop may trap you against the early raiser if he’s holding a big pair, or if he catches an ace or king or queen — or even a jack — on a later round.”

“Imran was good at carrom. Always after the bright red queen, the centre of attention on the board, he tussled to win it first.”

“Each time a worker shakes the queen, she grasps the queen with her forelegs and shakes her own body for a second or so, delivering 10 to 20 vigorous shakings of the queen […]”

“Truss framed with King Posts […] Do. with Kings and Queens.”

“[…] all of these men are lasciviously dressed in womanly attire, short sleeves, low-necked dresses and the usual ball-room decorations and ornaments of women, feathered and ribboned head-dresses, garters, frills, flowers, ruffles, etc., and deport themselves as women. Standing or seated on a pedestal, but accessible to all the rest, is the naked queen (a male), whose phallic member, decorated with a ribbon, is subject to the gaze and osculations in turn, of all the members of this lecherous gang of sexual perverts and phallic fornicators.”

“[…] operator Charles Zipf described the "feminine" attire found in Gianelli’s room, reported his description of other "queens," and passed on "Salome's" admission of having had sex with men from the U.S.S. Baltimore.”

“But she's a queen, and such are queens that your laughter is sucked in their brains”

“Despite one's opinion of Sylvia I can attest to the purity of her intent and dedication, and, no one will dare deny she is one gutsy queen.”

“A few outdoor houses for the queens are used.”

“When your queen has returned from the stud it is always advisable to keep her shut up until all restlessness has left her.”

“The combined quantity of Queens and Manzanillas to be pickled from the 1935 olive crop in the Seville District of Spain is estimated at 32,500 short tons, according to a report received from N. I. Nielsen, Agricultural Attaché at Paris.”

“Prices for the two main types of Spanish style green olives - manzanillas and queens - vary according to the size of the crop of each. In some years queens will be more expensive than manzanillas […]”

“Since exposure plays a major role in the success of a queen, even those performers who do not win a Talent Night can obtain bookings by the bar and establish a reputation.”

“"I mean, it's not for everyone. And there's definitely good drag and bad drag. […] But I did learn a lot about myself and what I wanted from my life from some of the queens I used to know."”

“Ad Hoc Softwares has bright hand-blocked floral cotton bed linens from India, including flat full/queen sheets, were $85, now $51; standard pillowcases, were $18 each, now $10.80 […]”

“Queen Elizabeth II”

“The reminiscences of Princess Mary Louise, granddaughter of Queen Victoria, vividly evoke this continuity of royal women “performing” masculinity, by a page of illustration showing Queens Victoria and Elizabeth II, mounted on horseback in almost identical uniform, reviewing troops.”

“Her Majesty the Queen v. John Smith, style of cause of a criminal case.”

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