queen

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