Definition of "queen" in İngilizce

noun

1. The wife, consort, or widow of a king.

   • The divorced king was looking for a new queen.

2. A female monarch.

3. A woman whose pre-eminence, power, or forcefulness is comparable to that of a queen.

4. Something regarded as the greatest of its kind or as having pre-eminence or power comparable to that of a queen over a given area.

5. Referring to one of several items used in tabletop games:

6. A reproductive female insect in a hive, such as an ant, bee, termite or wasp.

7. (obsolete) A type of flatfish, specifically the lemon sole.

8. (rare) A queen apple.

9. (originally UK) A queen scallop.

10. (construction, obsolete) Ellipsis of queen post.

11. (now chiefly historical) A type of large roofing slate.

12. (LGBTQ slang, sometimes derogatory) A homosexual man, especially one regarded as effeminate.

13. An adult female cat capable of breeding.

14. Ellipsis of queen olive.

15. (LGBTQ, slang) Ellipsis of drag queen.

16. (attributive, originally Canada, US) Pertaining to a queen-size bed or queen-size bedding.

17. A monarch butterfly (Danaus spp., especially Danaus gilippus).

verb

1. (intransitive, obsolete) To act the part of a queen; to behave imperiously; to queen it.

2. (transitive) To make a queen or (figuratively) to give the status of a queen.

3. (chess) To promote a pawn to a queen.

4. (beekeeping) To be the queen bee of a colony.

5. (beekeeping) To provide with a new queen bee.

6. (BDSM, slang, transitive, usually of a woman) To sit on a person’s face to receive oral sex, typically while straddling the person’s head.