Queen of England
- noun
- The author didn't magically become richer than the Queen of England overnight.
- Queen of England
- Majesty, the Queen of England
- meet the Queen of England
I clicked on a a story about the Queen of England, right?
- I clicked on a a story about the Queen of England, right?
- I was honored by the Queen of England.
- Prince Harry, we might be sitting here with the future Queen of England.
Examples
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The Queen of England also appears on the screen to implore God's blessing, wearing a wounded look.
Fiction book (1994) -
The Queen of England was coming next week, and I was sorry it wasn't going to mean much.
Fiction book (1994) -
OK, so the Queen of England has come back.
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You get treated like the Queen of England.
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The future Queen of England must be pure.
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I'm the Queen of England!
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And then he was shipped off to England to woo the Queen of England, who was his cousin.
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Our Smart Girl, Tess, dressed as the Queen of England for Halloween.
Blog text (14) -
President Teddy Roosevelt championed Hayes, while the Queen of England personally awarded Dorando a gold trophy.
Blog text (10) -
Queen of England presided over the ceremony, wearing her crown and regalia.
Synonyms
A woman who rules a country or is the king's wife
A woman who rules a country, for example a queen
A woman who rules a country because she inherited the throne
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning 'female sovereign ruler of England' is directly derivable from the constituents 'queen' + 'of' + 'England', with 'of' marking the relationship/possession. This straightforward compositional noun phrase is cross-linguistically common and would be understood by a B1 learner who knows the individual words.
Etymology
Queen of England comes from long ago when a woman who ruled England was crowned and wore a crown while sitting on the throne. So Queen means a woman ruler and England names the country, and the phrase means 'the woman who rules England'.