I. ˈkwēn noun
Etymology: Middle English quene, from Old English cwēn woman, wife, queen; akin to Gothic qens wife, Greek gynē woman, Sanskrit jani
Date: before 12th century
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 queen
b. : a goddess or a thing personified as female and having supremacy in a specified realm
c. : an attractive girl or woman ; especially : 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 especially for breeding
8. often disparaging : a male homosexual ; especially : an effeminate one
II. verb
Date: 1611
intransitive verb
1. : to act like a queen ; especially : to put on airs — usually used with it
queen s it over her friends
2. : to become a queen in chess
the pawn queen s
transitive verb
: to promote (a pawn) to a queen in chess