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queen
English
Alternative forms
- queene, quene, queyne (obsolete)
Etymology
From Middle English quene, queen, cwen, from Old English cw?n (“queen”), from Proto-West Germanic *kw?ni, from Proto-Germanic *kw?niz (“woman”), from Proto-Indo-European *g?énh?s (“woman”). Cognate with Scots queen, wheen (“queen”), Old Saxon qu?n ("wife"; > Middle Low German quene (“elderly woman”)), Dutch kween (“woman past child-bearing age”), Swedish kvinna (“woman”), Danish kvinde (“woman”), Icelandic kvon (“wife”), Gothic ???????????????? (q?ns, “wife”), Norwegian dialectal kvån (“wife”). Related to Old English cwene (“woman; female serf, quean”), see quean. Generally eclipsed non-native Middle English regina (“queen”), borrowed from Latin r?g?na (“queen”) (see Modern English regina). Doublet of gyne.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /kwi?n/, [k?w?i?n], enPR: kw?n
- Rhymes: -i?n
- Homophone: quean
Noun
queen (plural queens)
- A female monarch. Example: Queen Victoria.
- The wife or widow of a king.
- (chess) The most powerful piece, able to move any number of spaces horizontally, vertically, or diagonally.
- (card games) A playing card with the letter "Q" and the image of a queen on it, the twelfth card in a given suit.
- A red disk that is the most valuable piece in the Asian game of carom.
- A powerful or forceful female person.
- (LGBT, slang, often derogatory) An effeminate male homosexual. (See usage notes.)
- (Can we date this quote?), Bebe Scarpi, quoted in 2007, Stephan Cohen, The Gay Liberation Youth Movement in New York ?ISBN, page 196:
- Despite one's opinion of Sylvia I can attest to the purity of her intent and dedication, and, no one will dare deny she is one gutsy queen.
- (Can we date this quote?), Bebe Scarpi, quoted in 2007, Stephan Cohen, The Gay Liberation Youth Movement in New York ?ISBN, page 196:
- (LGBT, slang) Ellipsis of drag queen.
- A reproductive female animal in a hive, such as an ant, bee, termite or wasp.
- An adult female cat valued for breeding. See also tom.
- A queen olive.
- 1984, United States International Trade Commission, Bottled green olives from Spain (page A-24)
- Prices for the two main types of Spanish style green olives - manzanillas and queens - vary according to the size of the crop of each. In some years queens will be more expensive than manzanillas […]
- 1984, United States International Trade Commission, Bottled green olives from Spain (page A-24)
- A monarch butterfly (Danaus spp., esp. Danaus gilippus).
Usage notes
- (LGBT): The term can be either derogatory or a self-identification. (Compare nigger.)
- (LGBT): Some of the people who were historically (in the late 1960s and 1970s) described as "queens" or "drag queens" or "street queens" are now sometimes considered transgender, especially when their gender identity is female or non-binary/genderqueer rather than male. Some people, like Sylvia Rivera, self-identified as both a "transgender person" and a "street queen". Drag queens, too, can have any gender identity.
Synonyms
- (female monarch): queen regnant, Regina (the reigning queen, formal)
- (wife of a king): queen consort, Regina (the reigning queen, formal)
- (LGBT): See Thesaurus:male homosexual
- (playing card): bitch, cowgirl, girl, lady, mop squeezer
Derived terms
Descendants
- ? American Sign Language: G@Shoulder-PalmDown G@Abdomen-PalmDown
- Sikaiana: kuini
Translations
See also
Verb
queen (third-person singular simple present queens, present participle queening, simple past and past participle queened)
- To make a queen.
- (intransitive, obsolete) To act the part of a queen; to queen it.
- (chess) To promote a pawn, usually to a queen.
- (beekeeping) To provide with a new queen.
- (beekeeping) To be the queen of a colony.
- (BDSM, slang, transitive, of a female) To sit on the face of (a partner) to receive oral sex.
- 2000, "Lorelei", The Mistress Manual: The Good Girl's Guide to Female Dominance
- Try Queening him. Have him lie on his back while you sit on his face (make sure he has an airway through either his mouth or his nose).
- 2000, "Lorelei", The Mistress Manual: The Good Girl's Guide to Female Dominance
Derived terms
- queen out
Translations
Anagrams
- quene
Middle English
Noun
queen
- Alternative form of quene (“queen”)
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chesspiece
English
Noun
chesspiece (plural chesspieces)
- (chess) Alternative spelling of chess piece
- 2000, Rick Wallach - Myth, legend, dust: critical responses to Cormac McCarthy
- Sacrifice is one of the essential metaphors of the Trilogy, and here, the sacrifice of the chesspiece foreshadows that John Grady will later give his life in avenging the death of the woman he loves.
- 2008, Franklin Knowles Young - Chess Strategetics Illustrated
- The Queen, for instance, is termed the " strongest," or the ** most powerful" of the chesspieces
- 2008, November 13, Sydney Morning Herald, 24 hours in Lisbon [1]
- This tower [Torre de Belem] resembling an oversized chesspiece is another architectural wonder of the same era
- 2000, Rick Wallach - Myth, legend, dust: critical responses to Cormac McCarthy
Synonyms
- chessman
Hyponyms
- (chess): bishop, castle/rook, king, knight, pawn, queen
Translations
See also
- Appendix:Chess_pieces
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