queen
[noun]
Synonyms:
- sovereign, consort, monarch, ruler
- ideal, mistress, model, star

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I. Queen
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.

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II. Queen, 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. ⇒ Elizabeth II

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I. queen¹ S2 W2 /kwiːn/ noun [countable]
[Language: Old English; Origin: cwen 'woman, queen']

1. RULER (also Queen)
a) the female ruler of a country ⇒ king
queen of
Cleopatra, Queen of Egypt
Queen Elizabeth
At 18, Victoria was crowned queen (=officially became ruler).
b) the wife of a king:
the future queen

2. CARD a playing card with a picture of a queen on it:
the queen of diamonds

3. the queen of something the woman or place that is considered the best in a particular area or activity:
With 42 albums, she was the queen of pop.
Paris, the queen of fashion

4. COMPETITION American English the woman who wins a beauty competition, or who is chosen to represent a school, area etc:
the carnival queen

5. INSECT a large female bee, ant etc, which lays the eggs for a whole group

6. queen bee a woman who behaves as if she is the most important person in a place

7. HOMOSEXUAL taboo informal an offensive word for a male homosexual who behaves very like a woman. Do not use this word.

8. CHESS the most powerful piece in the game of chess
⇒ beauty queen, drag queen

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II. queen² verb [transitive]

1. technical to change a pawn into a queen in the game of chess

2. queen it over somebody British English informal if a woman queens it over other people, she behaves as if she is more important than them, in an annoying way

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Queen, 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. ⇒ Elizabeth II

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queen
noun
I. female ruler/wife of a king
ADJ. rightful | crowned | future
VERB + QUEEN become | crown (sb), make sb, proclaim sb She was crowned queen at the age of fifteen.
depose, put aside
QUEEN + VERB reign, rule, rule (over) sb/sth | abdicate the queen's decision to abdicate
PREP. under a/the ~ England under Queen Elizabeth I
~ of the Queen of France
PHRASES queen consort (= the wife of a king)

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queen
II. playing card
 ⇒ Note at CARD

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queen

become queen
Mary 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.
the 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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king the male ruler of a country, who comes from a royal family:
George III was the king of England at that time.
King Harald V of Norway
queen a woman who rules a country because she is from a royal family, or the wife of a king:
She became queen when she was only 14 years old.
Queen Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom
monarch a king or queen:
The bishops were appointed by the monarch.
monarchy a country that is ruled by a king or queen, or this type of political system:
Britain is a constitutional monarchy.
Some people want the monarchy to be abolished.
prince the son of a king, queen, or prince, or the male ruler of a small country or state:
Prince Rainier of Monaco
The prince will inherit the throne when his father dies.
ruler someone such as a king, who has official power over a country and its people:
the ruler of Babylonia
General Musharraf was the former military ruler of Pakistan.
emperor the ruler of an empire (=group of countries):
the Habsburg emperors of the 19th century
Emperor Hirohito
sovereign formal a king or queen:
It was hoped that a meeting of the two sovereigns would ease tensions between the countries.
regent someone who governs instead of a king or queen, because the king or queen is ill, absent, or still a child:
Edward II left his friend Gaveston as regent.
the crown formal the position of king or queen:
Warwick was a loyal servant of the crown.

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queen
kwi:n
See: homecoming queen

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