Definition of Queens

Noun: Queens  kweenz

  1. A borough of New York City
Noun: queen  kween
  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
    - queen regnant, female monarch
     
  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
    - king, world-beater
     
  6. [offensive] A homosexual man
    - gay man
     
  7. One of four face cards in a deck bearing a picture of a queen
     
  8. (chess) piece able to move both horizontally and diagonally any number of spaces; most powerful piece
     
  9. 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
    - queen mole rat
     
  10. An adult female cat valued for breeding
    - tabby
Verb: queen  kween
  1. Promote to a queen, as of a pawn in chess
     
  2. (chess) become a queen
    "her pawn queened"

See also:
queenly
queenship

Anagrams containing the word Queens

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