Queen

Acceptable For Game Play - US & UK word lists

This word is acceptable for play in the US & UK dictionaries that are being used in the following games:

The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. The wife or widow of a king.
  • n. A woman sovereign.
  • n. Something having eminence or supremacy in a given domain and personified as a woman: Paris is regarded as the queen of cities.
  • n. Games The most powerful chess piece, able to move in any direction over any number of empty squares in a straight line.
  • n. Games A playing card bearing the figure of a queen, ranking above the jack and below the king.
  • n. The fertile, fully developed female in a colony of social bees, ants, or termites.
  • n. A mature female cat, especially one kept for breeding purposes.
  • n. Offensive Slang Used as a disparaging term for a homosexual man.
  • v. To make (a woman) a queen.
  • v. Games To raise (a pawn) to queen in chess.
  • verb-intransitive. Games To become a queen in chess.
  • idiom. queen it To act like a queen; domineer: queens it over the whole family.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. A female monarch. Example: Queen Victoria
  • n. The wife or widow of a king. Example: Queen Elizabeth, the Queen Mother
  • n. The most powerful piece, able to move any number of spaces horizontally, vertically, or diagonally.
  • n. A playing card with the picture of a queen on its face, the twelfth card in a given suit.
  • n. A powerful or forceful female person.
  • n. An effeminate male homosexual. See drag queen.
  • n. A reproductive female animal in a hive, such as an ant, bee, termite or wasp.
  • n. An adult female cat valued for breeding. See tom.
  • v. to make a queen
  • v. to promote a pawn, usually to a queen.
  • v. To sit on the face of (a partner) to receive oral sex.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. The wife of a king.
  • n. A woman who is the sovereign of a kingdom; a female monarch
  • n. A woman eminent in power or attractions; the highest of her kind
  • n. The fertile, or fully developed, female of social bees, ants, and termites.
  • n. The most powerful, and except the king the most important, piece in a set of chessmen.
  • n. A playing card bearing the picture of a queen.
  • verb-intransitive. To act the part of a queen.
  • verb-intransitive. To make a queen (or other piece, at the player's discretion) of by moving it to the eighth row.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. The consort of a king.
  • n. A woman who is the sovereign of a realm; a female sovereign.
  • n. Figuratively, a woman who is chief or preeminent among others; one who presides: as, queen of beauty; queen of the May (see Mayqueen).
  • n. Hence, anything personified as chief or greatest, when considered as possessing female attributes.
  • n. In entomology, a queen bee or queen ant.
  • n. A playing-card on which a queen is depicted.
  • n. In chess, the piece which is by far the most powerful of all for attack. See chess. Abbreviated Q.
  • n. A variety of roofing-slate, measuring 3 feet long and 2 feet wide. Compare duchess, 2.
  • n. Among Roman Catholics, a title given to the Virgin Mary.
  • To play the queen; act the part or character of a queen; domineer: with an indefinite it.
  • In chess, to make a queen of: said of a pawn on its reaching the eighth square.
  • In apiculture, to supply with a queen; introduce a queen to: said of a colony of bees.
  • n. Same as quin.
  • n. Same as queen-wasp.
  • n. A female eat. In modern catteries the name is given only to female cats used for careful and scientific breeding. Also called queen-cat.
  • n. The female of a termite or white ant. See king, 6.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • n. a competitor who holds a preeminent position
  • n. one of four face cards in a deck bearing a picture of a queen
  • n. offensive term for an openly homosexual man
  • v. become a queen
  • n. something personified as a woman who is considered the best or most important of her kind
  • n. (chess) the most powerful piece
  • n. a female sovereign ruler
  • n. the only fertile female in a colony of social insects such as bees and ants and termites; its function is to lay eggs
  • n. female cat
  • n. the wife or widow of a king
  • n. 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
  • v. promote to a queen, as of a pawn in chess
  • Equivalent
    Verb Form
    queened    queening    queens   
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    Form
    queened    queening   
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    royal    regale    reginal    queen regnant    queen consort   
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    Aileen    Amin    Arleen    Augustin    Bean    Cathleen    Celine    Charlene    Christine    Clymene   
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    king    mother    emperor    lady    princess    mistress    God    priest    hero    captain