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English

Image:Chess queen 0964.jpg|thumb|A queen (chess)

Etymology

quene, from cwen|cwēn or cwene

Pronunciation

  • IPA: /kwiːn/
  • An audio transcript can be found at en-us-queen.ogg


Noun

  1. A female monarch. Ex: :w:Queen Victoria|Queen Victoria
  2. The wife of a king. Ex: :w:Queen Elizabeth, the Queen Mother|Queen Elizabeth, the Queen Mother
  3. (chess) Piece able to move both horizontally and diagonally any number of spaces; most powerful piece.
  4. (playing cards) Playing card with picture of queen on its face, 12th card in a given suit.
  5. A powerful or forceful female person.
  6. In the Context of . An effeminate male homosexual. See Drag queen.
  7. A reproductive female animal in a hive, such as an ant, bee, termite or wasp
  8. An adult female cat valued for breeding. See tom.


Synonyms


Translations

  • Afrikaans: koningin
  • Arabic: {{Arab|ملكة|مَلِكَة}} (málika)
  • Aramaic:
  • : Syriac: ܡܠܟܬܐ (malktā, malkto)
  • : Hebrew: מלכתא (malktā, malkto)
  • Chinese:
  • : Mandarin: 女王 (nǚwáng), 王后 (wánghòu)
  • Croatian: {{t+|hr|kraljica|f}}
  • Czech: {{t-|cs|královna|f}}
  • Danish: {{t-|da|dronning|c}}
  • Dutch: {{t+|nl|koningin|f}}
  • Esperanto: {{t-|eo|reĝino|xs=Esperanto}}
  • French: {{t+|fr|reine|f}}
  • Finnish:
  • German: {{t+|de|Königin|f}}
  • Greek: {{t+|el|βασίλισσα|f|sc=Grek}} (vasílissa)
  • Hebrew: מלכה (mālkā)
  • Hungarian:
  • Icelandic: {{t+|is|drottning|f}}
  • Indonesian: {{t-|id|ratu|xs=Indonesian}}
  • Irish: {{t-|ga|banríon|f|xs=Irish}}
  • Italian: {{t+|it|regina|f}}
  • Croatian: {{t+|hr|kraljica|f}}
  • Czech: {{t-|cs|královna|f}}
  • Danish: {{t-|da|dronning|c}}
  • Finnish:
  • French: {{t+|fr|reine|f}}
  • Hungarian:
  • Icelandic: {{t+|is|drottning|f}}
  • Indonesian: permaisuri
  • Japanese: 王妃 (おうひ, ōhi)
  • Latin: {{t-|la|regina|f}}
  • Malayalam: രാജ്ഞി (raajnji), റാണി (RaaNi)
  • Maltese: {{t-|mt|reġina|xs=Maltese}}
  • Polish: {{t+|pl|królowa|f}}
  • Russian: {{t+|ru|королева|f|tr=koroléva|sc=Cyrl}}, {{t+|ru|царица|f|tr=caríca|sc=Cyrl}}
  • Spanish: {{t-|es|reina|f}}
  • Swedish: {{t+|sv|drottning|c}}
  • Vietnamese: hoàng hậu, vợ vua
  • Croatian: {{t+|hr|kraljica|f}}
  • Czech: {{t-|cs|dáma|f}}
  • Danish: {{t-|da|dronning|c}}
  • Dutch: dame , koningin (unofficial)
  • Esperanto: {{t-|eo|reĝino|xs=Esperanto}}
  • Finnish:
  • French: {{t+|fr|dame|f}}
  • German: {{t+|de|Dame|f}}
  • Greek: {{t+|el|βασίλισσα|f|sc=Grek}} (vasílissa)
  • Hebrew: מלכה (mālkā)
  • Hungarian:
  • Icelandic: {{t+|is|drottning|f}}
  • Indonesian: {{t-|id|ratu|xs=Indonesian}}
  • Italian: {{t+|it|regina|f}}
  • Japanese: {{t+|ja|クイーン|tr=kuīn|sc=Jpan}}
  • Malayalam: രാജ്ഞി (raajnji), റാണി (RaaNi)
  • Maltese: {{t-|mt|sultana|xs=Maltese}}
  • Norwegian:
  • Novial: rega
  • Polish: {{t+|pl|hetman|m}}
  • Portuguese: {{t+|pt|dama|f}}, {{t+|pt|rainha|f}}
  • Romanian: {{t-|ro|regină|f}}, {{t+|ro|damă|f}}
  • Russian: ферзь (ferz’) , королева (koroléva)
  • Slovene: {{t+|sl|kraljica|f}}, {{t-|sl|dama|f}}
  • Spanish: {{t-|es|reina|f}}
  • Swedish: {{t+|sv|dam|c}}, {{t+|sv|drottning|c}}
  • Telugu: రాణి (raani)
  • Turkish:
  • Vietnamese: (quân) hậu|Hậu
  • Croatian: {{t-|hr|dama|f}}
  • Afrikaans vrou
  • Czech: {{t-|cs|dáma|f}}
  • Danish: {{t-|da|dame|c}}
  • Dutch: {{t+|nl|vrouw|f}}, {{t+|nl|dame|f}}
  • Esperanto: {{t-|eo|reĝino|xs=Esperanto}}
  • Finnish: kuningatar, rouva, akka (colloquial)
  • French: {{t+|fr|reine|f}},
  • German: {{t+|de|Dame|f}}
  • Hebrew: מלכה (mālkā)
  • Hungarian:
  • Icelandic: {{t+|is|drottning|f}}
  • Indonesian: {{t-|id|ratu|xs=Indonesian}}
  • Irish: {{t-|ga|banríon|xs=Irish}}
  • Italian: {{t+|it|regina|f}}, {{t+|it|donna|f}}
  • Japanese: {{t+|ja|クイーン|tr=kuīn|sc=Jpan}}
  • Malayalam: രാജ്ഞി (raajnji), റാണി (RaaNi)
  • Maltese: {{t-|mt|donna|xs=Maltese}}
  • Norwegian:
  • Novial: rega
  • Polish: {{t+|pl|dama|f}}
  • Portuguese: {{t+|pt|dama|f}}
  • Romanian: {{t+|ro|damă|f}}
  • Russian: {{t+|ru|дама|f|tr=dáma|sc=Cyrl}}
  • Slovene: {{t-|sl|dama|f}}
  • Spanish: {{t-|es|reina|f}}
  • Swedish: {{t+|sv|dam|c}}
  • Telugu: రాణి (raani)
  • Turkish:
  • Vietnamese: (quân) đam
  • Croatian: {{t+|hr|kraljica|f}}
  • Czech: {{t-|cs|královna|f}}
  • Danish: {{t-|da|dronning|c}}
  • Finnish: ,
  • Polish: {{t-|pl|caryca|f}}
  • Russian: {{t+|ru|королева|f|tr=koroléva|sc=Cyrl}}
  • Spanish: {{t-|es|reina|f}}
  • Vietnamese: bà#Vietnamese|bà chúa
  • Danish: {{t+|da|bøsse|c}}
  • Finnish:
  • German: {{t-|de|Tunte|f}}
  • Greek: {{t+|el|πούστης|m|sc=Grek}}
  • Indonesian: homo, hombre, banci
  • Polish: {{t+|pl|ciota|f}}, {{t+|pl|homo|m}}, {{t+|pl|pedał|m}}
  • Spanish: {{t+|es|loca|f}}, {{t-|es|reinona|f}}
  • Swedish: ,
  • Czech: {{t-|cs|královna|f}}
  • Danish: {{t-|da|dronning|c}}
  • Dutch: {{t+|nl|koningin|f}}
  • Finnish:
  • French: {{t+|fr|reine|f}}
  • German: {{t+|de|Königin|f}}
  • Greek: {{t+|el|βασίλισσα|f|tr=vasílissa|sc=Grek}}
  • Hebrew: מלכה (mālkā)
  • Icelandic: {{t+|is|drottning|f}}
  • Italian: {{t-|it|ape regina|f}}
  • Maltese: {{t-|mt|reġina tan-naħal|xs=Maltese}}
  • Norwegian:
  • Polish: {{t+|pl|królowa|f}}
  • Romanian: {{t-|ro|regină|f}}
  • Russian: {{t+|ru|матка|f|tr=mátka|sc=Cyrl}}, {{t+|ru|царица|f|tr=caríca|sc=Cyrl}}
  • Slovene: {{t-|sl|matica|f}}
  • Spanish: {{t-|es|reina|f}}
  • Swedish: {{t+|sv|drottning|c}}
  • Turkish:
  • Vietnamese: con#Vietnamese|con (+ kiến=ant, ong#Vietnamese|ong=bee, mối=termite) chúa
  • Dutch: wijfjeskat , poes , kattin (Flemish)
  • Finnish:
  • French: {{t+|fr|folle|f}}
  • Icelandic: {{t+|is|læða|f}}
  • Italian: {{t+|it|gatta|f}}
  • Hebrew: חתולה (ḥātulā)
  • Maltese: {{t-|mt|qattusa|f|xs=Maltese}}
  • Polish: {{t-|pl|kocica|f}}, {{t+|pl|kotka|f}}

Derived terms


See also

Verb

{{en-verb|queens|queening|queened|queened}}

  1. to make a queen
  2. to convert a pawn into a queen


Translations

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GNU Project's publication of CIDE, the Collaborative International Dictionary of English Queen \Queen\, n. [OE. quen, quene, queen, quean, AS. cw[=e]n
wife, queen, woman; akin to OS. qu[=a]n wife, woman, Icel.
kv[=a]n wife, queen, Goth. q[=e]ns. [root]221. See Quean.]
1. The wife of a king.
[1913 Webster]

2. A woman who is the sovereign of a kingdom; a female
monarch; as, Elizabeth, queen of England; Mary, queen of
Scots.
[1913 Webster]

In faith, and by the heaven's quene. --Chaucer.
[1913 Webster]

3. A woman eminent in power or attractions; the highest of
her kind; as, a queen in society; -- also used
figuratively of cities, countries, etc. " This queen of
cities." " Albion, queen of isles." --Cowper.
[1913 Webster]

4. The fertile, or fully developed, female of social bees,
ants, and termites.
[1913 Webster]

5. (Chess) The most powerful, and except the king the most
important, piece in a set of chessmen.
[1913 Webster]

6. A playing card bearing the picture of a queen; as, the
queen of spades.
[1913 Webster]
[1913 Webster]

Queen apple. [Cf. OE. quyne aple quince apple.] A kind of
apple; a queening. "Queen apples and red cherries."
--Spenser.

Queen bee (Zool.), a female bee, especially the female of
the honeybee. See Honeybee.

Queen conch (Zool.), a very large West Indian cameo conch
(Cassis cameo). It is much used for making cameos.

Queen consort, the wife of a reigning king. --Blackstone.

Queen dowager, the widow of a king.

Queen gold, formerly a revenue of the queen consort of
England, arising from gifts, fines, etc.

Queen mother, a queen dowager who is also mother of the
reigning king or queen.

Queen of May. See May queen, under May.

Queen of the meadow (Bot.), a European herbaceous plant
(Spir[ae]a Ulmaria). See Meadowsweet.

Queen of the prairie (Bot.), an American herb ({Spir[ae]a
lobata}) with ample clusters of pale pink flowers.

Queen pigeon (Zool.), any one of several species of very
large and handsome crested ground pigeons of the genus
Goura, native of New Guinea and the adjacent islands.
They are mostly pale blue, or ash-blue, marked with white,
and have a large occipital crest of spatulate feathers.
Called also crowned pigeon, goura, and {Victoria
pigeon}.

Queen regent, or Queen regnant, a queen reigning in her
own right.

Queen's Bench. See King's Bench.

Queen's counsel, Queen's evidence. See King's counsel,
King's evidence, under King.

Queen's delight (Bot.), an American plant ({Stillinqia
sylvatica}) of the Spurge family, having an herbaceous
stem and a perennial woody root.

Queen's metal (Metal.), an alloy somewhat resembling pewter
or britannia, and consisting essentially of tin with a
slight admixture of antimony, bismuth, and lead or copper.


Queen's pigeon. (Zool.) Same as Queen pigeon, above.

Queen's ware, glazed English earthenware of a cream color.


Queen's yellow (Old Chem.), a heavy yellow powder
consisting of a basic mercuric sulphate; -- formerly
called turpetum minerale, or Turbith's mineral.
[1913 Webster]
GNU Project's publication of CIDE, the Collaborative International Dictionary of English Queen \Queen\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Queened; p. pr. & vb. n.
Queening.] (Chess.)
To make a queen (or other piece, at the player's discretion)
of by moving it to the eighth row; as, to queen a pawn.
[1913 Webster]
GNU Project's publication of CIDE, the Collaborative International Dictionary of English Queen \Queen\, v. i.
To act the part of a queen. --Shak.
[1913 Webster]
WordNet queen
n 1: the only fertile female in a colony of social insects such
as bees and ants and termites; its function is to lay
eggs
2: a female sovereign ruler [syn: queen regnant, {female
monarch}] [ant: king, king]
3: the wife or widow of a king
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"
5: a competitor who holds a preeminent position [syn: king, world-beater]
6: offensive terms for an openly homosexual man [syn: fagot,
faggot, fag, fairy, nance, pansy, queer, poof,
poove, pouf]
7: one of four face cards in a deck bearing a picture of a
queen
8: (chess) the most powerful piece
9: especially large and only member of a colony of naked mole
rats to bear offspring sired by only a few males
10: female cat [syn: tabby]
v 1: promote to a queen, as of a pawn in chess
2: become a queen; "her pawn queened"
Moby Dictionary
Kaiserin , ace , ant , army ant , auntie , beauty queen , bee , begum ,
best bower , bi-guy , bisexual , bishop , black ant , bower , bull dyke ,
bumblebee , butch , cards , carpenter ant , castle , catamite , champion ,
chessman , chicken , choice , chosen , clubs , cream , crown princess ,
cynosure , czarina , deck , deuce , diamonds , diva , drone , dummy , dyke ,
elect , elite , emmet , empress , epitome , face cards , fag , faggot ,
fairy , fat , femme , fire ant , flit , flower , flush , fricatrice ,
fruit , full house , grand duchess , gunsel , hand , hearts , homo ,
homophile , homosexual , homosexualist , honeybee , hornet , house ant ,
idol , infanta , invert , jack , joker , king , knave , knight , kumari ,
kunwari , leader , leading light , left bower , lesbian , maharani ,
malikzadi , man , model , monarch , nance , nonesuch , nonpareil ,
optimum , pack , pair , pansy , paragon , pathic , pawn , pick ,
picture cards , piece , pismire , playing cards , prima donna , prime ,
princess , princesse , prize , punk , queen bee , queen consort ,
queen dowager , queen regent , queen regnant , queer , quintessence ,
raj-kumari , rani , red ant , rook , round , royal flush , rubber , ruff ,
ruler , sapphist , select , shahzadi , singleton , slave ant , soldier ,
sovereign , sovereign princess , sovereign queen , spades , star ,
straight , superlative , termite , the best , the best ever , the tops ,
the very best , trey , tribade , trick , trump , wasp , worker ,
yellow jacket


Queen No explicit mention of queens is made till we read of the "queen of Sheba." The wives of the kings of Israel are not so designated. In Ps. 45:9, the Hebrew for "queen" is not _malkah_, one actually ruling like the Queen of Sheba, but _shegal_, which simply means the king's wife. In 1 Kings 11:19, Pharaoh's wife is called "the queen," but the Hebrew word so rendered (g'birah) is simply a title of honour, denoting a royal lady, used sometimes for "queen-mother" (1 Kings 15:13; 2 Chron. 15:16). In Cant. 6:8, 9, the king's wives are styled "queens" (Heb. melakhoth). In the New Testament we read of the "queen of the south", i.e., Southern Arabia, Sheba (Matt. 12:42; Luke 11:31) and the "queen of the Ethiopians" (Acts 8:27), Candace.
QUEEN. There are several kinds of queens in some countries. 1. Queen regnant, is a woman who possesses in her own right the executive power of the country. 2. Queen consort, is the wife of a king. 3. Queen dowager is the widow of a king. In the United States there is no one with this title.
QUEEN, n. A woman by whom the realm is ruled when there is a king, and through whom it is ruled when there is not.
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