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say it: kween
queen is a noun and verb meaning "the only fertile female in a colony of social insects such as bees and ants and termites; its function is to lay eggs". It carries 12 recorded senses.
a female sovereign ruler
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
one of four face cards in a deck bearing a picture of a queen
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
female cat
promote to a queen, as of a pawn in chess
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for queen come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.