queen

Meanings

• the only fertile female in a colony of social insects such as bees and ants and termites; its function is to lay eggs
• a female sovereign ruler
• the wife or widow of a king
• 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"
• a competitor who holds a preeminent position
• offensive term for an openly homosexual man
• one of four face cards in a deck bearing a picture of a queen
• (chess) the most powerful piece
• 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
• female cat
• promote to a queen, as of a pawn in chess
• become a queen
  • "her pawn queened"

Synonyms

fag, faggot, fagot, fairy, female monarch, king, nance, pansy, poof, poove, pouf, queen mole rat, queen regnant, queer, tabby, world-beater