What is queen?

More definitions of "queen":

• (noun): Something personified as a woman who is considered the best or most important of her kind.
  Example: "Paris is the queen of cities"; "the queen of ocean liners"

• (noun): A female sovereign ruler.
  Synonyms: queen regnant, female monarch

• (noun): Offensive terms for an openly homosexual man.
  Synonyms: fagot, faggot, fag, fairy, nance, pansy, queer, poof, poove, pouf

• (noun): The only fertile female in a colony of social insects such as bees and ants and termites; its function is to lay eggs.

• (noun): Especially large and only member of a colony of naked mole rats to bear offspring sired by only a few males.

• (noun): One of four face cards in a deck bearing a picture of a queen.

• (verb): Promote to a queen, as of a pawn in chess.

• (noun): (chess) the most powerful piece.

• (noun): Female cat.
  Synonyms: tabby

• (verb): Become a queen.
  Example: "Her pawn queened"

• (noun): A competitor who holds a preeminent position.
  Synonyms: king, world-beater

Famous quotes containing the word queen:

“O Queen of air and darkness,
I think ‘tis truth you say,
And I shall die to-morrow;
But you will die to-day.”
—A.E. (Alfred Edward)

“...he sent letters to all the royal provinces, to every province in its own script and to every people in its own language, declaring that every man should be master in his own house.”
—Bible: Hebrew, Esther 1:22.

King Ahasuerus, after his Queen Vashti refused to come at the king’s command.

“Queen Jane was in labor
Six weeks and some more;
The women grew wearied,
And the midwife gave o’er.”
—Unknown. The Death of Queen Jane (l. 1–4)