[queen] n [ME quene, fr. OE cwen woman, wife, queen; akin to Goth qens wife, Gk gyne woman, Skt jani] (bef. 12c) 1 a: the wife or widow of a king b: the wife or widow of a tribal chief
2. a: a female monarch b: a female chieftain 3 a: a woman eminent in rank, power, or attractions "a movie ~" b: a goddess or a thing personified as female and having supremacy in a specified realm c: an attractive girl or woman; esp: a beauty contest winner
4: the most privileged piece of each color in a set of chessmen having the power to move in any direction across any number of unoccupied squares
5: a playing card marked with a stylized figure of a queen
6: the fertile fully developed female of social bees, ants, and termites whose function is to lay eggs 7: a mature female cat kept esp. for breeding 8: a male homosexual; esp: an effeminate one--often used disparagingly
[2]queen vi (1611) 1: to act like a queen; esp: to put on airs--usu. used with it "~s it over her friends"
2: to become a queen in chess ~ vt: to promote (a pawn) to a queen in chess