queen

Noun

• female cat

• 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

• (chess) the most powerful piece

• one of four face cards in a deck bearing a picture of a queen

• offensive term for an openly homosexual man

• a competitor who holds a preeminent position

• 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
    

• the wife or widow of a king

• a female sovereign ruler

• the only fertile female in a colony of social insects such as bees and ants and termites; its function is to lay eggs

Verb

• become a queen
  • her pawn queened
    

• promote to a queen, as of a pawn in chess

Related words

• Synonyms: 
  tabby , queen mole rat , king , world-beater , queen regnant , female monarch
• Antonyms: 
  king , male monarch , Rex