Unscramble queen

Definition of queen

noun:

• the only fertile female in a colony of social insects such as bees and ants and termites; its function is to lay eggs.
• a female sovereign ruler. Synonyms: female monarch, queen regnant. Antonyms: king, male monarch.
• the wife or widow of a king.
• 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".
• a competitor who holds a preeminent position. Synonyms: king, world-beater.
• offensive term for an openly homosexual man. Synonyms: fag, faggot, fagot, fairy, nance, pansy, poof, poove, pouf, queer.
• one of four face cards in a deck bearing a picture of a queen.
• (chess) the most powerful piece.
• 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. Synonyms: queen mole rat.
• female cat. Synonyms: tabby.

verb:

• promote to a queen, as of a pawn in chess.
• become a queen; "her pawn queened".

Words nearby

queens, queer, quern.

Rhymes with

achene, amine, aquamarine, athene, baleen, bean, benzene, between, between, brigantine, caffeine, canteen, careen, casein, citrine, clean, colleen, convene, cuisine, dean.