Definition of queen

"queen" in the noun sense

1. queen

the only fertile female in a colony of social insects such as bees and ants and termites its function is to lay eggs

2. queen, queen regnant, female monarch

a female sovereign ruler

3. queen

the wife or widow of a king

4. queen

something personified as a woman who is considered the best or most important of her kind

"Paris is the queen of cities"

"the queen of ocean liners"

5. king, queen, world-beater

a competitor who holds a preeminent position

6. fagot, faggot, fag, fairy, nance, pansy, queen, queer, poof, poove, pouf

offensive term for a homosexual man

7. queen

one of four face cards in a deck bearing a picture of a queen

8. queen

chess) the most powerful piece

9. queen, queen mole rat

an especially large mole rat and the only member of a colony of naked mole rats to bear offspring which are sired by only a few males

10. tabby, queen

female cat

"queen" in the verb sense

1. queen

promote to a queen, as of a pawn in chess

2. queen

become a queen

"her pawn queened"

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Quotations for queen

Beauty is always queen. [ Joseph II ]

Need makes the naked queen spin. [ Proverb ]

That queen of secrecy, the violet. [ Keats ]

Queen of arts, and daughter of heaven. [ Burke ]

Folly is the queen regent of the world. [ Proverb ]

A queen devoid of beauty is not queen;
She needs the royalty of beauty's mien. [ Victor Hugo ]

Gone is the time when Queen Bertha span. [ German Proverb ]

Not more the rose, the queen of flowers,
Outblushes all the bloom of bower,
Than she unrivalled grace discloses;
The sweetest rose, where all are roses. [ Moore ]

She moves a goddess, and she looks a queen. [ Homer ]

Reason is mistress and queen of all things. [ Cicero ]

Fair eldest child of love, thou spotless night!
Empress of silence, and the queen of sleep;
Who, with thy black cheek's pure complexion,
Mak'st lovers' eyes enamoured of thy beauty. [ Marlowe ]

In various talk the instructive hours they past,
Who gave the ball, or paid the visit lasts
One speaks the glory of the British queen.
And one describes a charming Indian screen;
A third interprets motions, looks, and eyes;
At every word a reputation dies. [ Pope ]

Weep not, sweet queen, for trickling tears are vain. [ William Shakespeare ]

Such another peerless queen only could her mirror show. [ Emerson ]

Before marriage, woman is a queen; after marriage, a subject.

The king of good-fellows, is appointed for the queen of beggars. [ Proverb ]

Opinion is, as it were, the queen of the world, but force is its tyrant. [ Pascal ]

In love affairs, a young shepherdess is a better partner than an old queen. [ De Finod ]

Power is the queen of the world, not opinion; but opinion makes use of power. [ Pascal ]

Force and not opinion is the queen of the world; but it is opinion that uses the force. [ Pascal ]

Truth is a queen who has her eternal throne in heaven, and her seat of empire in the heart of God. [ Bossuet ]

The daffodil is our door-side queen; she pushes up the sward already, to spot with sunshine the early green. [ Bryant ]

Much depends upon when and where you read a book. In the five or six impatient minutes before the dinner is quite ready, who would think of taking up the Faerie Queen for a stopgap, or a volume of Bishop Andrews's Sermons? [ Lamb ]

queen in Scrabble®

The word queen is playable in Scrabble®, no blanks required.

Scrabble® Letter Score: 14

Highest Scoring Scrabble® Play In The Letters queen:

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The 57 Highest Scoring Scrabble® Plays For Words Using The Letters In queen

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queen in Words With Friends™

The word queen is playable in Words With Friends™, no blanks required.

Words With Friends™ Letter Score: 16

Highest Scoring Words With Friends™ Play In The Letters queen:

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The 67 Highest Scoring Words With Friends™ Plays Using The Letters In queen

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Words within the letters of queen

2 letter words in queen (3 words)

5 letter words in queen (1 word)

queen + 1 blank (2 words)

Words containing the sequence queen

Words with queen in them (1 word)

Words that end with queen (1 word)

Word Growth involving queen

Shorter words in queen

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Longer words containing queen

queened

queenfish queenfishes

queening

queenless

queenlier

queenliest

queenlike

queenliness

queenly

queenmaker queenmakers

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