queen
- noun
- /kwin/
- To admire the way that a queen can weave a mat of reeds?
Examples
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After a long day, my queen curls up next to me, ready to rest.
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The breeder is excited because her queen is expecting a new litter of kittens.
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You should be a righteous queen.
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Since you're gonna be queen soon, you could use this to oversee production.
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Polly here could live like a queen at my petting zoo, and you...
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A queen-sized bed, with a gold silk quilt on it.
Fiction book (1997) -
Each summer, the barn is alive with a queen and her playful kittens.
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 Fertile
- Specialized
Surface Forms
Etymology
The word queen for a female cat used for breeding comes from the idea of an important female (old English cwen 'woman'), so a queen is a female kept to have kittens.