Queen
Pronunciation
- IPA: /kwiËn/
- Rhymes: -iËn
- Homophones: quean
Origin
From Middle English queen, quene, cwen, from Old English cwÄ“n, cwÇ£n ("woman; wife, consort; queen, empress, royal princess"), from Proto-Germanic *kwÄ“niz ("woman"), from Proto-Indo-European *gʷḗn ("woman"). Cognate with Scots queen, wheen ("queen"), Old Saxon quÄn
Middle Low German quene ("elderly woman")}, Norwegian dialectal kvÃ¥n ("wife"), Icelandic kvon ("wife"), Gothic ðŒµðŒ´ðŒ½ðƒ (qÄ“ns, "wife"). Related to Old English cwene ("woman; female serf, quean, prostitute"), see quean.
Full definition of queen
Noun
queen
(plural queens)- A female monarch. Example: Queen Victoria
- The wife or widow of a king.Queen Elizabeth, the Queen Mother
- (chess) The most powerful piece, able to move any number of spaces horizontally, vertically, or diagonally.
- (card games) A playing card with the picture of a queen on its face, the twelfth card in a given suit.
- A powerful or forceful female person.
- (derogatory, slang) An effeminate male homosexual. See drag queen.
- A reproductive female animal in a hive, such as an ant, bee, termite or wasp.
- An adult female cat valued for breeding. See also tom.
Synonyms
- (female monarch) queen regnant
- (wife of a king) queen consort
Derived terms
Verb
- To make a queen.
- (intransitive, obsolete) To act the part of a queen; to queen it.
- (chess) To promote a pawn, usually to a queen.
- (BDSM, slang, transitive, of a female) To sit on the face of (a partner) to receive oral sex.
- 2000, "Lorelei", The Mistress Manual: The Good Girl's Guide to Female DominanceTry Queening him. Have him lie on his back while you sit on his face (make sure he has an airway through either his mouth or his nose).
- 2007, Madelynne Ellis, Dark Designs...not Eloise, sat queening him. He couldn't wait to tip her velvet. He wanted to come, but not here, with these three. It was time to extract himself.
- 2012, Yolanda Celbridge, The Castle of MaldonaShe saw his pink tongue flickering on Clare's exposed nympha as she queened him, her love juices shining on his chin and throat...