queen mother

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   a queen dowager who is mother of the reigning sovereign

   Broaderqueen dowager

Questions about queen mother

What does queen mother mean?

queen mother means "a queen dowager who is mother of the reigning sovereign".

Is queen mother a common word?

queen mother 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.