1syllable
queen
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Definitions ofqueen
1noun
- A female monarch. Example: Queen Victoria.
- The wife or widow of a king.
- The most powerful piece, able to move any number of spaces horizontally, vertically, or diagonally.
- A playing card with the letter "Q" and the image of a queen on it, the twelfth card in a given suit.
- A red disk that is the most valuable piece in the Asian game of carom.
- A powerful or forceful female person.
- An effeminate male homosexual. (See usage notes.)
- A reproductive female animal in a hive, such as an ant, bee, termite or wasp.
- An adult female cat valued for breeding. See also tom.
- A queen olive.
- A monarch butterfly (Danaus spp., esp. Danaus gilippus).
1verb
- To make a queen.
- To act the part of a queen; to queen it.
- To promote a pawn, usually to a queen.
- To provide with a new queen.
- To be the queen of a colony.
- (BDSM, of a female) To sit on the face of (a partner) to receive oral sex.
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