From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary Englishqueenqueen1 /kwiːn/ ●●● S2 W2 noun [countable] 1 ruler (also Queen) a) PGOthe female ruler of a country → kingqueen of Cleopatra, Queen of Egypt Queen Elizabeth At 18, Victoria was crowned queen (=officially became ruler). b) PGOthe wife of a king the future queen2 cardDGC a playing card with a picture of a queen on it the queen of diamonds3 → the queen of something4 competition American English the woman who wins a beauty competition, or who is chosen to represent a school, area etc the carnival queen5 insectHBI a large female bee, ant etc, which lays the eggs for a whole group6 → queen bee7 homosexual taboo informalSYHOMOSEXUAL an offensive word for a male homosexual who behaves very like a woman. Do not use this word.8 chessDGB the most powerful piece in the game of chess → beauty queen, drag queenCOLLOCATIONSverbsbecome queenMary Tudor became queen in 1553.crown somebody queen (=officially make someone queen)The next day she was crowned Queen of England.a queen rules/reigns (=is in charge of a country)Queen Victoria reigned for over 60 years.a queen abdicates (=gives up the position of being queen)The Queen is unlikely to abdicate.phrasesthe reign of Queen Elizabeth/Victoria etc (=when Elizabeth etc was queen)She was born in the reign of Queen Victoria.Her Majesty the Queen (=used when talking about a queen)Her Majesty the Queen will be visiting Australia in July.
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queen• I fancy you like a queen - a princess rather - in all those flowers.• the King and Queen of Belgium• Self-confident, individualistic, indomitable and highly respected, they used to be the kings and queens of photography.• Later on we've greener greens and beauty queens.• Elizabeth II became Queen of England in 1952.• Cooper is a former B-movie queen.• a new biography of Queen Elizabeth• The Kamiz material was called Rathkirani or queen of the night.• All the surfaces were bare apart from a seventeenth-century bronze statue of Theseus abducting Antiope, the queen of the Amazons.• The queen can choose the sex of her progeny.• The queen was grief-stricken at his death.• The queen, preoccupied, sent him away, but was prevailed upon to reinvite the captain.• the Queen of Sweden• the queen of the Kalispell County Fairqueenqueen2 verb [transitive] 1 technicalDGB to change a pawn into a queen in the game of chess2 → queen it over somebody→ See Verb tableQueen, thethe QueenQueen, the Her Majesty the Queen - the official title of the queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland. The Queen is the official head of state of Britain and of other countries in the Commonwealth, but has little real political power. She has to give her official agreement (Royal Assent) to all new laws before they can actually become laws but in fact she does not have the right to refuse this agreement. → see also Elizabeth II, QueenQueenQueen a British rock group who were very popular in the 1970s and 1980s, and whose songs include Bohemian Rhapsody and We Are the Champions. Their main singer was Freddie Mercury, and they were known especially for playing to very large crowds, for example in football stadiums.Origin queen1 Old English cwen “woman, queen” 