queen
1. queen -- (the only fertile female in a colony of social insects such as bees and ants and termites; its function is to lay eggs)
2. queen, queen regnant, female monarch -- (a female sovereign ruler)
3. queen -- (the wife or widow of a king)
4. queen -- (something personified as a woman who is considered the best or most important of her kind; "Paris is the queen of cities"; "the queen of ocean liners")
5. king, queen, world-beater -- (a competitor who holds a preeminent position)
6. fagot, faggot, fag, fairy, nance, pansy, queen, queer, poof, poove, pouf -- (offensive term for an openly homosexual man)
7. queen -- (one of four face cards in a deck bearing a picture of a queen)
8. queen -- ((chess) the most powerful piece)
9. queen, queen mole rat -- (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)
10. tabby, queen -- (female cat)
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1. queen -- (promote to a queen, as of a pawn in chess)
2. queen -- (become a queen; "her pawn queened")
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