queen

A female sovereign ruler.

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”

The only fertile female in a colony of social insects such as bees and ants and termites; its function is to lay eggs.

The wife or widow of a king.

Female cat.

Offensive term for a homosexual man.

A competitor who holds a preeminent position.

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.

(chess) the most powerful piece.

One of four face cards in a deck bearing a picture of a queen.

Become a queen.

“her pawn queened”

Promote to a queen, as of a pawn in chess.