queen

The wife, consort, or widow of a king.

The divorced king was looking for a new queen.

The king doth keepe his Reuels here to night. Take heede the Queene come not within his ſight.

A female monarch.

But our mercifull Queene Elizabeth hath not burned the popiſh prieſtes on the alters where they committed idolatrie in ſaying of Maſſe, and worſhipped a piece of breade for the bodie of Chriſte (which ſhee might haue done if ſhee would) and yet you count not her for a godly and mercifull Queene.

In 1952, at the last accession, there were only eight members of the new entity taking shape in the outline of the British Empire. The Queen was the head of state in seven of them, and she was proclaimed Head of the Commonwealth to accommodate India’s lone status as a republic.

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

[…] and yet I will not ſay but amongſt duſt there is Pearle found, and in hard rockes Dyamonds of great value, and ſo amongſt many women there are ſome good, as that gracious and glorious Queene of all woman kinde the Virgin Mary the mother of al bliſſe, what wun her honour, but an humble minde and her paines and loue vnto our Sauiour Chriſt.

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

Always look after that girl, doc. She's a queen!

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

But now I was the Lord / Of this faire manſion,maſter of my ſeruants, / Queene ore my ſelfe : and euen now,but now.

Regardless of what one thinks of that Hollywoodish distortion of her life story, it did stimulate an interest in the late Lady Day, though one might speculate as to whether the effect would have been the same had the film starred someone other than Diana Ross, a reigning queen of pop culture.

To act the part of a queen; to behave imperiously; to queen it.

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

This dreame of mine / Being now awake, Ile Queene it no inch farther, / But milke my Ewes, and weepe.

To promote a pawn to a queen.

Neither King will be able to stop the opponent's pawns from queening, when the game should be a draw. In such cases, which side queens first, or queens with check, can make a crucial difference. In this case, White promotes his pawn first and is able to put this advantage to good use.

To be the queen bee of a colony.

They have all been queened by imported stock, or the best of home-bred mothers.

The nucleus should not be queened by a queen from any of the parent colonies.

To provide with a new queen bee.

In queening his apiary, he aims to keep about half of the queens of the current season's rearing, and the other of the summer preceding.

If such a queen is immediately allowed to run through the entrance of a queenless colony, the queening is usually successful.

Alternative letter-case form of queen (“consort or widow of a king”).

Alternative letter-case form of queen (“female monarch”).

A title used before the personal name of a queen.

Queen Elizabeth II

The reminiscences of Princess Mary Louise, granddaughter of Queen Victoria, vividly evoke this continuity of royal women “performing” masculinity, by a page of illustration showing Queens Victoria and Elizabeth II, mounted on horseback in almost identical uniform, reviewing troops.

radiotelephony clear-code word for the letter Q.