queen consort

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   the wife of a reigning king

   Broaderqueen

Questions about queen consort

What does queen consort mean?

queen consort means "the wife of a reigning king".

Is queen consort a common word?

queen consort is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.