QUEEN

I. noun Etymology: Middle English quene, from Old English cwēn woman, wife, ~; akin to Gothic qens wife, Greek gynē woman, Sanskrit jani Date: before 12th century 1. the wife or widow of a king, the wife or widow of a tribal chief, 2. a female monarch, a female chieftain, 3. a woman eminent in rank, power, or attractions , a goddess or a thing personified as female and having supremacy in a specified realm, an attractive girl or woman, 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, a playing card marked with a stylized figure of a ~, the fertile fully developed female of social bees, ants, and termites whose function is to lay eggs, a mature female cat kept especially for breeding, a male homosexual, II. verb Date: 1611 intransitive verb to act like a ~, to become a ~ in chess , transitive verb to promote (a pawn) to a ~ in chess