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QUEEN

Definition:

[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
Synonyms: regnant, female monarch
[noun] the wife or widow of a king
[noun] 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"
[noun] a competitor who holds a preeminent position
Synonyms: king, world-beater
[noun] offensive terms for an openly homosexual man
Synonyms: fagot, faggot, fag, fairy, nance, pansy, queer, poof, poove, pouf
[noun] one of four face cards in a deck bearing a picture of a queen
[noun] (chess) the most powerful piece
[noun] especially large and only member of a colony of naked mole rats to bear offspring sired by only a few males
[noun] female cat
Synonyms: tabby
[verb] promote to a queen, as of a pawn in chess
[verb] become a queen; "her pawn queened"