queen (noun)
1: the only fertile female in a colony of social insects such as bees and ants and termites; its function is to lay eggs
2: a female sovereign ruler [syn: queen regnant, [[female monarch]]] [ant: king, king]
3: the wife or widow of a king
4: 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"
5: a competitor who holds a preeminent position [syn: king, world-beater]
6: offensive terms for an openly homosexual man [syn: fagot, faggot, fag, fairy, nance, pansy, queer, poof, poove, pouf]
7: one of four face cards in a deck bearing a picture of a queen
8: (chess) the most powerful piece
9: especially large and only member of a colony of naked mole rats to bear offspring sired by only a few males
10: female cat [syn: tabby]
queen
(verb)
1: promote to a queen, as of a pawn in chess
2: become a queen; "her pawn queened"