Usually means: Female monarch, often a ruler.
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General (27 matching dictionaries)
  1. queen: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. queen, the Queen: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. queen: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. queen: Collins English Dictionary
  5. queen: Vocabulary.com
  6. Queen, queen: Wordnik
  7. queen: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. Queen, queen: Wiktionary
  9. queen: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. queen: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. queen: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Queen, queen: Dictionary.com
  13. queen: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. queen: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Q.U.E.E.N, Queen(band), Queen (Band), Queen (East Indiaman), Queen (English automobile), Queen (Jessie J song), Queen (Kaya album), Queen (Nicki Minaj album), Queen (Queen album), Queen (Snow White), Queen (TV miniseries), Queen (TV series), Queen (album), Queen (band), Queen (butterfly), Queen (card), Queen (chess), Queen (disambiguation), Queen (film), Queen (gay slang), Queen (insect), Queen (magazine), Queen (mini-series), Queen (monarch), Queen (music), Queen (name), Queen (playing card), Queen (rock band), Queen (ship), Queen (slang), Queen (soundtrack), Queen (web series), Queen, The Queen (British TV serial), The Queen (Justin Mortimer portrait), The Queen (Singaporean TV series), The Queen (South African TV series), The Queen (TV serial), The Queen (Velvet album), The Queen (film), The Queen (movie), The Queen (play), The Queen, The queen: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Queen: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. queen: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. queen: Rhymezone
  19. queen: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. queen: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. Queen, Queen: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  22. queen: Free Dictionary
  23. queen: Mnemonic Dictionary
  24. The Queen, queen: Dictionary/thesaurus
  25. queen: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Queen: Dictionary of Symbolism

Business (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Construction Term Glossary (No longer online)
  2. Bouvier's Law Dictionary 1856 Edition (No longer online)
  3. Queen (disambiguation), Queen, The Queen: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Queen (disambiguation), Queen (monarch), The Queen, queen: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  2. Queen (disambiguation), The Queen, queen: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Brilliant Dream Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. QUEEN: Acronym Finder
  3. The Queen, queen: Idioms

Religion (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Queen: Easton Bible
  2. Queen: Smith's Bible Dictionary

Science (1 matching dictionary)
  1. QUEEN: A Dictionary of Quaternary Acronyms and Abbreviations

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. queen, queen, queen: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. queen: English slang and colloquialisms used in the United Kingdom

Sports (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Cat Terms (No longer online)

Tech (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Washington State Definitions and Abbreviations of Vetrinary Terms (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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noun:  The wife, consort, or widow of a king.
noun:  A female monarch.
noun:  A woman whose pre-eminence, power, or forcefulness is comparable to that of a queen.
noun:  (Christianity) The Virgin Mary (especially in formulations such as Queen of Heaven, Queen of Glory).
noun:  An excellent woman.
noun:  A woman pre-eminent in a particular group or field.
noun:  (slang, originally US) An attractive woman; a female partner in a romantic relationship.
noun:  Something regarded as the greatest of its kind or as having pre-eminence or power comparable to that of a queen over a given area.
noun:  Referring to one of several items used in tabletop games:
noun:  (chess) A chess piece that, under contemporary rules, is the most powerful, able to move any number of spaces horizontally, vertically, or diagonally.
noun:  (card games) A playing card with a depiction of a queen on it, generally ranking next below the king and above the jack in a given suit.
noun:  A red disk that is the most valuable piece in the Asian game of carrom.
noun:  A reproductive female insect in a hive, such as an ant, bee, termite or wasp.
noun:  (obsolete) A type of flatfish, specifically the lemon sole.
noun:  (rare) A queen apple.
noun:  (originally UK) A queen scallop.
noun:  (now chiefly historical) A type of large roofing slate.
noun:  (LGBTQ slang, sometimes derogatory) A homosexual man, especially one regarded as effeminate.
noun:  An adult female cat capable of breeding.
noun:  (attributive, originally Canada, US) Pertaining to a queen-size bed or queen-size bedding.
noun:  A monarch butterfly (Danaus spp., especially Danaus gilippus).
verb:  (intransitive, obsolete) To act the part of a queen; to behave imperiously; to queen it.
verb:  (transitive) To make a queen or (figuratively) to give the status of a queen.
verb:  (chess) To promote a pawn to a queen.
verb:  (beekeeping) To be the queen bee of a colony.
verb:  (beekeeping) To provide with a new queen bee.
verb:  (BDSM, slang, transitive, usually of a woman) To sit on a person’s face to receive oral sex, typically while straddling the person’s head.
noun:  A title used before the personal name of a queen.
noun:  (World War II era, joint US/RAF) radiotelephony clear-code word for the letter Q.
noun:  In Commonwealth realms, the personification of the Crown, particularly in legal matters.
noun:  A surname transferred from the nickname, originating as a nickname.
noun:  An unincorporated community in Eddy County, New Mexico, United States, named after the Queen Ranch.
noun:  An unincorporated community in Bedford County, Pennsylvania, United States.
noun:  (construction, obsolete) Ellipsis of queen post. [(construction) A supporting post designed to span longer openings than a king post.]
noun:  Ellipsis of queen olive. [A superior kind of olive grown in Spain. It is large and oblong, with a small but long pit and a delicate flavour, and is cured when green.]
noun:  (LGBTQ, slang) Ellipsis of drag queen. [(LGBTQ, originally slang) A person, usually male, who dresses up in women’s clothing and makeup, typically in an exaggerated fashion and for public performance.]
noun:  Alternative letter-case form of queen (“consort or widow of a king”). [The wife, consort, or widow of a king.]
noun:  Alternative letter-case form of queen (“female monarch”). [The wife, consort, or widow of a king.]
noun:  Alternative letter-case form of queen (“Virgin Mary”). [The wife, consort, or widow of a king.]

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