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Queens

Queens

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A large part of New York City on Long Island
  • proper noun
  • /kwinz/
: Queens
  • When he had finally moved his family to Queens, no one raised an eyebrow.
  • Queens, New York
  • borough of Queens
  • Queens County

You know, another queen from Queens is Lucy Liu.

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Examples

  • When our customers apply for a credit card, the hard copies go to our storage facility in Queens.

    Serendipity (2001)

  • What's going on in Queens?

    The Place Beyond the Pines (2013)

  • It's a club in Queens.

    Analyze That (2002)

  • Branch was born in Queens.

    Assassins (1995)

  • In 1940, he was living at 327 Beach 19 Street, New York, Queens, New York.

    Academic text (2013)

  • Various developers saw the new borough of Queens as an ideal site for adaptations of the garden-city model.

    Academic text (2004)

  • Here are some photos from the hard-hit Rockaway section of Queens, New York.

    Academic text (2012)

  • When MacDougall and the Queensboro Corporation first began to develop Jackson Heights, Queens was still predominantly open space.

    Academic text (2004)

  • Andrew Hacker is a professor of political science at Queens College, Flushing, NY 11367.

    Academic text (1992)

  • My name is Eric, I'm a firefighter born and raised in Queens, New York.

Surface Forms

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Morphology

Queens = queen (opaque) = queen + s

Although formed from 'queen' + the plural suffix '-s', the borough name 'Queens' is a toponym and its place meaning cannot be derived as 'multiple queens' by an average learner.

Etymology

Queens comes from the royal word queen, which means 'a woman ruler'. The area was named long ago to honor an English queen when it became a county, so the borough kept the name Queens today.