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queen
noun(queen)offensive term for a homosexual man
queen
noun(queen)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
Synonyms: queen mole rat,
queen
verb(queen)become a queen
Examples:
Her pawn queened.
queen
noun(queen)(chess) the most powerful piece
queen
noun(queen)one of four face cards in a deck bearing a picture of a queen
queen
verb(queen)promote to a queen, as of a pawn in chess
queen
noun(queen)something personified as a woman who is considered the best or most important of her kind
Examples:
Paris is the queen of cities.
The queen of ocean liners.
The queen of ocean liners.
queen
noun(queen)the only fertile female in a colony of social insects such as bees and ants and termites; its function is to lay eggs
queen
noun(queen)the wife or widow of a king