queen
queen
(kwēn) noun
1.
Abbr. qu. a. The wife or widow of a king. b. A woman sovereign.
2. Something having eminence or supremacy in a given domain and personified as a woman: Paris is regarded as the queen of cities.
3. Games. a. Abbr. Q The most powerful chess piece, able to move in any direction in a straight line. b. Abbr. qu. A playing card bearing the figure of a queen, ranking above the jack and below the king.
4. Abbr. qu. The fertile, fully developed female in a colony of social bees, ants, or termites.
5. Offensive Slang. Used as a disparaging term for a gay or homosexual man.
verb
queened, queening, queens
verb
, transitive
1.
To make (a woman) a queen.
2.
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.
[Middle English quene, from Old English cwēn.]