queen

/kwi:n/
Noun
  1. female cat
  2. 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
  3. (chess) the most powerful piece
  4. one of four face cards in a deck bearing a picture of a queen
  5. offensive term for an openly homosexual man
  6. a competitor who holds a preeminent position
  7. 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
  8. the wife or widow of a king
  9. a female sovereign ruler
  10. the only fertile female in a colony of social insects such as bees and ants and termites; its function is to lay eggs
Verb
  1. become a queen
    • her pawn queened
  2. promote to a queen, as of a pawn in chess

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A queen sits on her throne in the royal hall.