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queen

English

🔊 the only fertile female in a colony of social insects such as bees and ants and termites
🔊 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
🔊 (chess) the most powerful piece
🔊 one of four face cards in a deck bearing a picture of a queen
🔊 a female sovereign ruler
🔊 the wife or widow of a king
🔊 something personified as a woman who is considered the best or most important of her kind
“Paris is the queen of cities”
🔊 female cat
🔊 a competitor who holds a preeminent position
🔊 offensive term for a homosexual man
🔊 become a queen
“her pawn queened”
🔊 promote to a queen, as of a pawn in chess