Definition of queen

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  • queen is a valid Scrabble US word with a point value of 14
  • queen is a valid Scrabble UK word with a point value of 14
  • queen is a valid Words with friends word with a point value of 16

Definition of queen

  • a female sovereign ruler (noun)

    Synonyms

    1. female monarch
    2. queen regnant
  • female cat (noun)

    Synonyms

    1. tabby
  • offensive term for a homosexual man (noun)

    Synonyms

    1. fag
    2. faggot
    3. fagot
    4. fairy
    5. nance
    6. pansy
    7. poof
    8. poove
    9. pouf
    10. queer
  • a competitor who holds a preeminent position (noun)

    Synonyms

    1. king
    2. world-beater
  • 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 (noun)

    Synonyms

    1. queen mole rat
  • become a queen (verb)

    Examples

    1. her pawn queened
  • (chess) the most powerful piece (noun)
  • one of four face cards in a deck bearing a picture of a queen (noun)
  • promote to a queen, as of a pawn in chess (verb)
  • something personified as a woman who is considered the best or most important of her kind (noun)

    Examples

    1. Paris is the queen of cities
    2. the queen of ocean liners
  • the only fertile female in a colony of social insects such as bees and ants and termites; its function is to lay eggs (noun)
  • the wife or widow of a king (noun)

See definition of queen in Merriam Webster