queen
noun
[ kwiːn ]
• the female ruler of an independent state, especially one who inherits the position by right of birth.
• "he insisted the princess could be crowned queen"
• the most powerful chess piece that each player has, able to move in any direction along a rank, file, or diagonal on which it stands.
• a playing card bearing a representation of a queen, normally ranking next below a king and above a jack.
• a reproductive female in a colony of social ants, bees, wasps, or termites, frequently the only one present in a colony.
• an adult female cat that has not been spayed.
• a gay man, especially one regarded as ostentatiously effeminate.
queen
verb
• behave in an unpleasantly superior way towards (someone).
• "Monique was queening it over everybody"
• convert (a pawn) into a queen when it reaches the opponent's back rank on the board.
Origin:
Old English cwēn, of Germanic origin; related to quean.
