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1. A borough of New York City

1. The only fertile female in a colony of social insects such as bees and ants and termites; its function is to lay eggs
    
2. A female sovereign ruler
   - queen regnant, female monarch
    
3. The wife or widow of a king
    
4. Something personified as a woman who is considered the best or most important of her kind
   "Paris is the queen of cities"; "the queen of ocean liners"
    
5. A competitor who holds a preeminent position
   - king, world-beater
    
6. [offensive] A homosexual man
   - gay man
    
7. One of four face cards in a deck bearing a picture of a queen
    
8. (chess) piece able to move both horizontally and diagonally any number of spaces; most powerful piece
    
9. An especially large mole rat and the only member of a colony of naked mole rats to bear offspring which are sired by only a few males
   - queen mole rat
    
10. An adult female cat valued for breeding
    - tabby

1. Promote to a queen, as of a pawn in chess
    
2. (chess) become a queen
   "her pawn queened"

Sounds like: queans

Type of: borough, cat, challenger, chess piece, chessman, competition, competitor, contender, court card, domestic cat, face card, Felis catus, Felis domesticus, female aristocrat, gay, homophile, homosexual, house cat, insect, kitty, kitty-cat, mog [Brit], moggie [Brit], moggy [Brit], naked mole rat, personification, picture card, promote, puss, pussy, pussycat, rival

Antonym: king

Part of: Big Apple, deck, deck of cards, Greater New York, New York, New York City, NYC, pack [Brit], pack of cards, royal family, royal house, royal line, royalty

Encyclopedia: Queens, NY Queens, New York Queens Queens, Belfast University Queens, Nova Scotia Queens , New York Queens, New York City, New York Queens, New York, New York Queens, New York City