QUEEN


Meaning of QUEEN in English

I . Queen

a successful British pop group formed in 1971. Its singer was Freddie Mercury and the group’s albums A Night at the Opera (1975), The Game (1980) and Innuendo (1991) as well as the song Bohemian Rhapsody (1975) were all No. 1 in Britain.

II . Ellery Queen

a detective in many US novels and short stories written between 1929 and 1971 by Frederic Dannay (1905–82) and Manfred B Lee (1905–71) under the same name of Ellery Queen. The first book was The Roman Hat Mystery (1929). There were also radio, television and film series, and Dannay and Lee also started Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine in 1941.

See also detective story .

Oxford guide to British and American culture English vocabulary.      Руководство по британской и американской культуре, Оксфордский английский словарь.