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queen-size

queen-size

5 3.2
A bed or mattress size larger than a double and smaller than a king, about 60 by 80 inches
  • adjective
  • /ˈkwinˌsaɪz/
translation icon : tamaño queen
  • She walked over to one of the queen-size beds and lay down.
  • queen-size bed
  • queen-size mattress
  • queen-size berth

We're both children and we were laying in a queen size bed at his father's house and going to sleep.

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Examples

  • The good news is that I've got a very comfortable queen-size mattress of my own.

    Blog text (3)
  • The queen-size bed takes up a good deal of the available space.

    Fiction book (1990)
  • We got a full queen-size bed here, believe it or not.

  • A queen-size bed is perfect.

  • We were lying side by side in a queen-size bed.

    Fiction book (1991)
  • We pushed the queen-size bed up to the window overlooking the creek that fed into the sound.

    Fiction book (1992)
  • I turned on the air conditioner under the window and lay on the queen-size bed until the stuffy room grew cold.

    Fiction book (1992)
  • In her room, she sat down on one of the queen-size beds and dialed her parents' condo.

    Fiction book (2001)
  • One day while browsing the web, my 2-year-old son sat directly next to me on my queen-size bed playing with his stuffed animals.

    Blog text (27)
  • The hotel room featured a spacious queen-size bed that offered plenty of comfort for two guests.

Synonyms

queen-sized
vsqueen-size
2 3.0

A bed or mattress larger than a double and smaller than a king

means the same but uses the hyphenated noun form

Antonyms

21 2.5

As large as the original or usual model

How Big

king-size
8 3.2
queen-size
5 3.2
full-size
21 2.5
twin bed
  • US
8 1.6

Surface Forms

queen-size positive

Morphology

queen-size = queen + size (transparent) = queen + size

A straightforward compound of 'queen' + 'size' meaning a standard mattress/bed size associated with 'queen'.

Etymology

Queen-size uses queen 'female ruler' as a simple image, so it names a bed that is smaller than a king-size but larger than a full bed. So a queen-size mattress is the common middle-large bed between a 'full' and a king-size, which makes the size easy to remember.