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Definition von queen

Häufigkeit

queen

(kwiːn )
Wortformen:plural queens
1. Substantiv-Titel & zählbares Substantiv
A queen is a woman who rules a country as its monarch.
...Queen Victoria.
She met the Queen last week.
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]
Synonyme:leading light, star, favourite, celebrity   Weitere Synonyme von queen
4.  See also beauty queen
5. zählbares Substantiv
A queen is a male homosexual who dresses and speaks rather like a woman.
[informal]
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]
8. zählbares Substantiv
A queen or a queen bee is a large female bee which can lay eggs.
Weitere Synonyme von queen
COBUILD Advanced English Dictionary. Copyright © HarperCollins Publishers

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Häufigkeit

queen in American

(kwin ; kwēn)
Substantiv
1. 
the wife of a king
2. 
a woman who rules over a monarchy in her own right; female sovereign
3. 
a woman foremost or judged to be foremost among others in certain attributes or accomplishments, as beauty, etc.
4. 
a place or thing regarded as the best or most beautiful of its kind
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
a male homosexual, specif. one with pronounced feminine characteristics
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 transitiv
9. 
to make (a girl or woman) a queen
10.  Chess
to make a queen of (a pawn that has reached the opponent's end of the board)
see also promote (sense 5)
Verb intransitiv
11. 
to reign as queen
Redewendungen:
queen it
Webster’s New World College Dictionary, 4th Edition. Copyright © 2010 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. All rights reserved.
Abgeleitete Formen
queendom (ˈqueendom)
  Substantiv
queenhood (ˈqueenˌhood)
  Substantiv
queenlike (ˈqueenˌlike)
  Adjektiv
Wortherkunft von queen
ME quen < OE cwen: see quean
Häufigkeit

queen in British

(kwiːn )
Substantiv
1. 
a female sovereign who is the official ruler or head of state
2. 
the wife or widow of a king
3. 
a woman or a thing personified as a woman considered the best or most important of her kind
a beauty queen
the queen of ocean liners
4. slang
an effeminate male homosexual
5. 
a. 
the only fertile female in a colony of social insects, such as bees, ants, and termites, from the eggs of which the entire colony develops
b. 
(as modifier)
a queen bee
6. 
an adult female cat
7. 
one of four playing cards in a pack, one for each suit, bearing the picture of a queen
8. 
a chess piece, theoretically the most powerful piece, able to move in a straight line in any direction or diagonally, over any number of squares
Verb
9. chess
to promote (a pawn) to a queen when it reaches the eighth rank
10. (transitive)
to crown as queen
11. (intransitive) informal
(of a gay man) to flaunt one's homosexuality
12. (intransitive)
to reign as queen
13.  queen it
Collins English Dictionary. Copyright © HarperCollins Publishers
Wortherkunft von queen
Old English cwēn; related to Old Saxon quān wife, Old Norse kvæn, Gothic qēns wife
Häufigkeit

Queen in British

(kwiːn )
Substantiv
Ellery (ˈɛlərɪ). pseudonym of Frederic Dannay (1905–82) and Manfred B. Lee (1905–71), US co-authors of detective novels featuring a sleuth also called Ellery Queen
Collins English Dictionary. Copyright © HarperCollins Publishers

Zitate

queen: a woman by whom the realm is ruled when there is a king, and through whom it is ruled when there is notAmbrose Bierce The Devil's Dictionary

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Other card terms, chess, Titles of rulers

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Übersetzungen für queen

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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