Definition von queen
Wortformen:plural queens
1. Substantiv-Titel
& zählbares Substantiv
2. Substantiv-Titel
& zählbares Substantiv
A queen is a woman who is married to a king.
The king and queen had fled.
3. zählbares Substantiv [noun NOUN]
If you refer to a woman as the queen of a particular activity, you mean that she is well-known for being very good at it.
...the queen of crime writing. [+ of]
4. See also beauty queen
5. zählbares Substantiv
6. zählbares Substantiv
In chess, the queen is the most powerful piece. It can be moved in any direction.
7. zählbares Substantiv
A queen is a playing card with a picture of a queen on it.
...the queen of spades. [+ of]
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Substantiv
1.
the wife of a king
3.
a woman foremost or judged to be foremost among others in certain attributes or accomplishments, as beauty, etc.
5.
the fully developed, reproductive female in a colony of bees, ants, or termites
6.
a playing card with a conventionalized picture of a queen on it
7. Slang
term of contempt or derision
8. Chess
the most powerful piece, permitted to move any number of unoccupied squares in a horizontal, vertical, or diagonal direction
Verb intransitiv
11.
to reign as queen
Redewendungen:
Webster’s New World College Dictionary, 4th Edition. Copyright © 2010 by
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. All rights reserved.
Abgeleitete Formen
Substantiv
queenhood (ˈqueenˌhood)
Substantiv
queenlike (ˈqueenˌlike)
Adjektiv
Substantiv
3.
a beauty queen
the queen of ocean liners
5.
a.
b.
(as modifier)
a queen bee
Verb
13. queen it
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queen: a woman by whom the realm is ruled when there is a king, and through whom it is ruled when there is not The Devil's Dictionary
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Britisches Englisch: queen
/kwiːn/ NOUN
A queen is a woman who rules a country as its head of state.
The country is ruled by a queen.
- Amerikanisches Englisch: queen
- Arabisch: مَلِكَة
- Brasilianisches Portugiesisch: rainha
- Chinesisch: 女王
- Kroatisch: kraljica
- Tschechisch: královna
- Dänisch: dronning
- Niederländisch: koningin
- Europäisches Spanisch: reina
- Finnisch: kuningatar
- Französisch: reine
- Deutsch: Königin
- Griechisch: βασίλισσα
- Italienisch: regina
- Japanisch: 女王
- Koreanisch: 여왕
- Norwegisch: dronning
- Polnisch: królowa
- Europäisches Portugiesisch: rainha
- Rumänisch: regină
- Russisch: королева
- Spanisch: reina
- Schwedisch: drottning
- Thai: พระราชินี
- Türkisch: kraliçe
- Ukrainisch: королева
- Vietnamesisch: nữ hoàng
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