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Queen   /kwin/   Listen
noun
Queen  n.  
1.
The wife of a king.
2.
A woman who is the sovereign of a kingdom; a female monarch; as, Elizabeth, queen of England; Mary, queen of Scots. "In faith, and by the heaven's quene."
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."
4.
The fertile, or fully developed, female of social bees, ants, and termites.
5.
(Chess) The most powerful, and except the king the most important, piece in a set of chessmen.
6.
A playing card bearing the picture of a queen; as, the queen of spades.
Queen apple. A kind of apple; a queening. "Queen apples and red cherries."
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.
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 (Spiraea Ulmaria). See Meadowsweet.
Queen of the prairie (Bot.), an American herb (Spiraea 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.


verb
Queen  v. i.  To act the part of a queen.


Queen  v. i.  (past & past part. queened; pres. part. 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.





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"Queen" Quotes from Famous Books



... his feet, to the branches of a tree, and he was supposed to have perished by wild beasts. But a shepherd, who found him in this perishing state, pitied his helplessness, and carried him to his master and mistress, King and Queen of Corinth, who adopted and educated him as their own child. That he was not their own child, and that in fact he was a foundling of unknown parentage, dipus was not slow of finding from the insults of his schoolfellows; and at length, with the determination of learning his ...
— Memorials and Other Papers • Thomas de Quincey
... fair Met ill acceptance. But the Provencals, That were his foes, have little cause for mirth. Ill shapes that man his course, who makes his wrong Of other's worth. Four daughters were there born To Raymond Berenger, and every one Became a queen; and this for him did Romeo, Though of mean state and from a foreign land. Yet envious tongues incited him to ask A reckoning of that just one, who return'd Twelve fold to him for ten. Aged and poor He parted thence: ...
— The Divine Comedy, Complete - The Vision of Paradise, Purgatory and Hell • Dante Alighieri
... that had there been no Queen there would have been no revolution. No force would have been provoked, nor exercised. The King would have gone hand in hand with the wisdom of his sounder counselors, who, guided by the increased lights of the age, wished only, with the same pace, to advance the principles ...
— The Best of the World's Classics, Restricted to Prose, Vol. IX (of X) - America - I • Various
... was telling you, when you stopped me. She looked like a queen, that she did; as grand a lady as ever I see, in her velvet dress sweeping over the floor, and her diamonds ...
— A Strange Disappearance • Anna Katharine Green
... through hope, and when all life seemed to me one brilliant illusion, I fancied that when I should return to Maleszow after my marriage, I would be followed by as long a train as a queen; I forgot no one in my dreams; all had their share in my royal favors.... Ah! what a fearful contrast between ...
— Continental Monthly, Vol. 5, Issue 2, February, 1864 • Various


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