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Queen
Found in thesaurus: female aristocrat, competition, contender, rival, gay man, face card, chess piece, naked mole rat, felis domesticus, felis catus
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queen
v.
govern as a queen; behave like a queen, behave arrogantly; exchange a pawn for a queen (Chess)
n.
female monarch, queen consort; (Slang) most prominent female in a particular field, queen of soul music; man's wife; (Chess) most powerful chess piece that is capable of moving in any direction; playing card that has a representation of a queen and ranks next below a king; adult female cat that has not been spayed; homosexual (Slang)
Queen
n.
British rock and roll band famous for the song "We Are the Champions"
king
n.
male monarch, male head of a monarchy; someone or something that is the best in a group (or category, etc.); gamepiece in chess or checkers; playing card with the image of a king
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Queen
A queen is a female monarch. Queen may refer to:
In government and monarchy
- Queen regnant, a female monarch who reigns in her own right having equivalent status to a reigning king
- Either of the two currently living queens regnant:
- Elizabeth II (born 1926), Queen regnant of the United Kingdom and the other Commonwealth realms
- Margrethe II of Denmark (born 1940), Queen regnant of the Kingdom of Denmark
- Either of the two currently living queens regnant:
- Queen regent, a female monarch who reigns temporarily while the reigning king is incapacitated or deceased but the heir apparent is a minor
- Queen consort, the wife of a reigning king
- Queen dowager, the widow of a deceased reigning king
- Queen mother, the mother of a reigning monarch
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queen
Noun
1. the only fertile female in a colony of social insects such as bees and ants and termites; its function is to lay eggs
(hypernym) insect
(hyponym) queen bee
2. a female sovereign ruler
(synonym) queen regnant, female monarch
(antonym) king, male monarch
(hypernym) female aristocrat
(hyponym) Queen of England
(member-holonym) royalty, royal family, royal line, royal house
3. the wife or widow of a king
(hypernym) female aristocrat
(hyponym) queen consort
(member-holonym) royalty, royal family, royal line, royal house
4. 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"
(hypernym) personification
5. a competitor who holds a preeminent position
(synonym) king, world-beater
(hypernym) rival, challenger, competitor, competition, contender
6. offensive terms for an openly homosexual man
(synonym) fagot, faggot, fag, fairy, nance, pansy, queer, poof, poove, pouf
(hypernym) gay man, shirtlifter
7. one of four face cards in a deck bearing a picture of a queen
(hypernym) face card, picture card, court card
(member-holonym) pack of cards, deck of cards, deck
8. (chess) the most powerful piece
(hypernym) chessman, chess piece
(classification) chess, chess game
9. especially large and only member of a colony of naked mole rats to bear offspring sired by only a few males
(hypernym) naked mole rat
10. female cat
(synonym) tabby
(hypernym) domestic cat, house cat, Felis domesticus, Felis catus
Verb
1. promote to a queen, as of a pawn in chess
(hypernym) promote
2. become a queen; "her pawn queened"
(hypernym) promote
(classification) chess, chess game
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queen
n.
královna; dáma
king
n.
král
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queen
Rzecz.
królowa; hetman; dama
king
Rzecz.
król
