queen

noun

• 1the female ruler of an independent state, especially one who inherits the position by right of birth: [as title]:Queen Victoria [as complement]:he insisted the princess could be crowned queen
• (also Queen Consort) a king’s wife.
• a woman or thing regarded as the finest or most outstanding in a particular sphere or group:the queen of the social columns
• a woman or girl chosen to hold the most important position in a festival or event:she’s the official carnival queen
• (the Queen) dated (in the UK) the national anthem when there is a female sovereign.
• informal a man’s wife or girlfriend.

• 2the most powerful chess piece that each player has, able to move in any direction along a rank, file, or diagonal on which it stands.

• 3a playing card bearing a representation of a queen, normally ranking next below a king and above a jack.

• 4 Entomology a reproductive female in a colony of social ants, bees, wasps, or termites, frequently the only one present in a colony.

• 5an adult female cat that has not been spayed.

• 6 informal a male homosexual, typically one regarded as ostentatiously effeminate.

verb

• 1 (queen it over) (of a woman) behave in an unpleasantly superior way towards (someone): Monique was queening it over everybody

• 2 Chess convert (a pawn) into a queen when it reaches the opponent’s back rank on the board.