queen

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Editorial note

And Ben has taken the place of the tech drama queen of the year.

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Quick take

the only fertile female in a colony of social insects such as bees and ants and termites; its function is to lay eggs

Meaning at a glance

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noun

the only fertile female in a colony of social insects such as bees and ants and termites; its function is to lay eggs

noun

a female sovereign ruler

noun

the wife or widow of a king

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for queen.

noun

the only fertile female in a colony of social insects such as bees and ants and termites; its function is to lay eggs

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a female sovereign ruler

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the wife or widow of a king

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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"

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a competitor who holds a preeminent position

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offensive term for an openly homosexual man

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one of four face cards in a deck bearing a picture of a queen

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(chess) the most powerful piece

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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

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female cat

verb

promote to a queen, as of a pawn in chess

verb

become a queen; "her pawn queened"

Example sentences

And Ben has taken the place of the tech drama queen of the year.

Come on, don't be a drama queen, as a european citizen how can you be trapped?

It is like me playing a game of chess and having the constant option to drop $20 to buy another queen.

But the fathers of my bees died during sex and the queen despite her royal title does not have any money.

If you do a bit of research, you might be surprised to learn that welfare queens don't exist in the vast numbers you think they do.

Bees that are placed in a hive that is not their own will "switch sides" to the new hive within a few hours to days after being placed nearby - the pheromones the queen gives off links them together.

I love how you're this paragon of stoic virtue, and I'm a drama queen, yet, here you are talking about it even more instead of ignoring it and going back to whatever it was you were doing.

Less people will think you an 'ice queen' if you call out an inappropriate remark, but countering the above form of sexism seems far more difficult to do while preserving 'likeability' -- 'what's the big deal, I just asked her to take notes!