QUEEN

Definition of QUEEN

  1. (verb)promote to a queen, as of a pawn in chess
  2. (verb)become a queen
  3. (noun)the only fertile female in a colony of social insects such as bees and ants and termites; its function is to lay eggs
  4. (noun)a female sovereign ruler
  5. (noun)the wife or widow of a king
  6. (noun)something personified as a woman who is considered the best or most important of her kind
  7. (noun)a competitor who holds a preeminent position
  8. (noun)offensive term for a homosexual man
  9. (noun)one of four face cards in a deck bearing a picture of a queen
  10. (noun)(chess) the most powerful piece
  11. (noun)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
  12. (noun)female cat