queen
- noun
- /kwin/
- She looks like the Queen in full regalia.
- kings and queens
- the queen's ministers
- the queen's cabinet
I got mine on the Queen's Birthday Honours.
- I got mine on the Queen's Birthday Honours.
- He wants her to be his queen, right?
- Your parents were the Last King and queen of Solaria.
- The theme was, you know, obviously the queen and her recent passing.
- I referred to the Queen as our monarch.
- The hunt for the true Lady Jane Grey, the nine day queen seems to continue.
- You guys following the whole Oprah Queen of England royal family shit?
- Or if the Queen, do we vote in the queen?
- And what we find is that the the queen wants something from her.
Examples
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I demand to see the queen.
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This is the Queen on her coronation day.
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What does the queen think?
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Well, did anyone here know that Queen Mary I existed?
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Your father was a king, your mother was a queen, which makes you a certified prince.
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We come in peace, and we seek an audience with your queen and her council of sages.
Fiction book (1992) -
Obviously, we knew that the Queen's health wasn't the best.
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After much singing, music, and dancing, the constable escorted the king and queen to their suite.
Academic text (2011) -
By 1891, when Liliuokalani became queen, two powerful factions had developed in Hawaiian politics.
Academic text (1992) -
This is the queen on her coronation day.
Synonyms
A king or queen who rules a country and usually gets the job by birth
The mother of the current king or queen who keeps the title after her child becomes ruler
A king or queen who rules because they get the position from their family
A queen or princess in India, often the wife of an Indian king
A woman who rules a country, for example a queen
A woman who rules a country because she inherited the throne
A woman who is the wife of a king but does not rule
A king's widow who keeps the title of queen after his death
A woman who rules a country because the king cannot, often until the heir is old enough
A short respectful name for the queen of the United Kingdom
Antonyms
Idioms
Compounds
A bed or mattress size larger than a double and smaller than a king, about 60 by 80 inches
- Slur
An insulting name for a woman said to unfairly take government money, often used to express racist ideas
- Formal
The mother of the current king or queen who keeps the title after her child becomes ruler
A wild plant with many thin leaves and groups of small white flowers like a carrot that grows in fields
- Literature
A famous queen known for her wisdom and great wealth who visited King Solomon
- Specialized
A vertical support between the main roof beams that holds the middle of the roof
A woman who rules a country because the king cannot, often until the heir is old enough
- Specialized
A brightly colored tropical fish with a deep body and long spines on its top fin, often near coral reefs
A region of Antarctica claimed by Norway between Enderby Land and the Weddell Sea
- Specialized
A larger female in a colony of naked mole rats who is the only one to have babies
How Royal
Surface Forms
Etymology
The word queen comes from an old English word cwen meaning 'woman' or 'wife'. Over time it came to mean the top female ruler, so a queen is a female sovereign.