queen¹

noun kwiːn

1The female ruler of an independent state, especially one who inherits the position by right of birth.
女王；女酋长；女首领
as title Queen Victoria
as complement he insisted the princess could be crowned queen
Example sentencesExamples
- The English and French monarchs were kings and queens of the land and not the people.
- In some ways, she was better poised, by temperament, to be a royal than the queen, which is a funny thing when you kind of think about it.
- Earlier, the queen and Prince Philip watched a golden jubilee parade in Windsor and started a nationwide jubilee music party during a visit to Slough.
- And for those who watched the funeral of the Princess of Wales, it was when Elton John sang that the queen was most moved.
- In the 1840s, the Ardverikie Estate was leased by the Duke of Abercorn, a senior aide to Prince Albert, the queen's husband.
- After all, if a woman who marries a sovereign king becomes a queen consort, why shouldn't a man who marries a sovereign queen become a king consort?
- This was once the place of royal summer retreat, and there is a wealth of stories about the kings, queens, princes and princesses who spent time here.
- It examines two powerful queens, how they used their power differently and how they suffered in love; two women imprisoned by the powerful roles they inhabit.
- Not surprisingly, England's first female rulers, the sixteenth-century Tudor queens Mary I and Elizabeth I, assumed power as single women.
- Children also took part in period dances including the lively farandole from Provence and the slower pavan, both dating back to the time of Tudor kings and queens.
- Of course, this in no way undermines the contributions of other historical British queens and queen consorts.
- Here, as we have seen, their ruler was the pro-Roman queen, Cartimandua whose seat may have been at Stanwick, near Scotch Corner.
- Elizabeth Bowes Lyon was mother to a queen, wife to a king, sister-in-law to another king.
- Visitors to Windsor Castle are to be given a glimpse of the drawings, books and documents collected by the Stuart kings and queens during their 100-year reign.
- Only 30% favour having a king or queen who inherits the position for life.
- She became a queen and gave birth to a future queen, and in the process became beloved by the British people.
- The broadcaster's new 24-part series on television series on kings and queens, Monarchy, begins tomorrow night on Channel Four and will continue for the next four years.
- Zapatero is now pushing a proposal that would allow Spanish princesses to become queens if they are the firstborn.
- Anne was a queen without a king, even though she had a spouse, who played the public but informal role of a loyal and obedient subject.
- The basic thing for a sovereign king or a queen of a country is service to the people.
Synonyms
monarch, sovereign, head of state, ruler, crown, her majesty
1. 1.1 A king's wife.
  Example sentencesExamples
  Salomon, the eldest, arrived first, around 1607, and his earliest works were for the queen consort, Anne of Denmark.
  Before departing, the king directed that his queen consort should follow him to London within about twenty days.
  The Medallion was simply a memento with pictures of the king and queen and inscription ‘Royal Tour 1947.’
  He immediately wrote a note to his wife, the queen.
  The king, queen and prince also sent messages of condolence.
  According to the scandalmongers, the then Prince of Wales had inherited these emeralds from Alexandra for the purpose of passing them down to his future wife, the next queen of England.
  A boom period followed the successful televising of the coronation of George VI and his queen consort on 12 May 1937.
  The drama tells the story of a king who takes a second wife because his Chinese queen is unable to bear children.
  The central room contains the epitaphs of the emperor Humayun and his queen, and is crowned by great double dome.
  King Gyanendra, who ascended the throne June 4, declared his wife, Princess Komal, the queen of Nepal the same day.
  What she obviously meant was that the new queen became the favourite wife of the emperor.
  Born in 1542, she married the French Dauphin in 1558 and became the queen consort a year later.
  His tolerance to other religions perhaps came from his many queens including his principle wife who was a Hindu.
  The Pavillion de La Bouexiere, as it was called in the eighteenth century, attracted noted celebrities such as Louis XV's queen consort, Marie Leszczynska.
  Prince Gyanendra contradicted officials who suggested that Crown Prince Dipendra killed King Birendra, the queen and six other royals in a dispute.
  The impressive scale of this escort was designed to convey an unmistakable message about the status and importance of those who were to be accompanied, namely the queen consort of the King of Scotland and England and the royal children.
  Some of his prophecies appeared to be fulfilled, and his fame became so widespread that he was invited to the court of Catherine de Medicis, queen consort of Henry II of France, where he cast the horoscopes of her children.
  While Elliott remains a staunch supporter of King Louis XVI and his queen, Marie Antoinette, the Duke sides with the anti-monarchists.
  King Norodom Sihanouk and his queen always enjoy the annual ceremony and the prime minister, other leaders and thousands of ordinary people also participate in the event.
  Convention has it that when the king comes to the throne, his wife then becomes queen.
  Synonyms
  monarch, sovereign, head of state, ruler, crown, her majesty
2. 1.2 A woman or thing regarded as the finest or most outstanding in a particular sphere or group.
  （某领域的）王后；精华；出类拔萃者
  the queen of the social columns
  办得最好的社会专栏。
  Example sentencesExamples
  The lifelong rivalry of cosmetics queens Elizabeth Arden and Helena Rubinstein makes for riveting reading.
  The HS748, the queen of the skies, has provided outstanding service to the Air Force and the nation in the past 37 years.
  And if that doesn't make me the official queen of Google, nothing will.
  Former classical fashion queens such as Audrey Hepburn and Jackie Kennedy had a faithful following in the city.
  In the studio the Eastenders cast will get makeovers from fashion queens Trinny and Susannah as part of a What Not To Wear special.
  The world famous queen of fashion, Vivienne Westwood, holding her first ever fashion show in Shanghai!
  Also, since you've been called the queen of fantasy romance, i could use any pointers you have!
  Until recently, botanists have met with similar impenetrability when asking these questions about orchids, the glamour queens of the plant kingdom.
  This guy had more fashion sense than the queen of fashion.
  Economics is often described as the queen of the social sciences.
  We are throwing down the gauntlet: Who is the next queen of Wife Swap?
  For once, Kerry's queens of fashion were upstaged by a queen from another land - but they didn't seem to mind.
  Hillary Luigio was a sporty half-Italian girl who was the queen of gossip.
  Long and thin or fat and tubular, pasta is the queen of comfort foods this winter.
  For the queen of fashion herself, I will make sure my party starts early enough so that she can drop by for her customary 10 minutes before going off to bed at 10 pm.
  But most importantly, Kathie remains the undisputed queen of the council chamber.
  Tanya had always been the fashion queen and it was because of that that her friends always deferred to her on issues of style.
  Mary Quant, undoubtedly fashion queen of the decade, rose to fame in 1966.
  The production team and crew under the direction of the queen of panto in Ballylinan Bernie Dunne are once again looking forward to yet another busy run.
  Sunday was family day and the best-dressed lady was selected from the many queens of fashion that paraded the latest styles throughout the course.
  Synonyms
  doyenne, star, leading light, celebrity, big name, superstar, top dog, queen bee, mistress, prima donna, idol, heroine, favourite, darling
  goddess, belle, pin-up
3. 1.3 A woman or girl chosen to hold the most important position in a festival or event.
  （节日或活动中）当选要职的女子
  she's the official carnival queen
  她是官方指派的狂欢节女王。
  Example sentencesExamples
  Jill's post about this, and her analogy to the unpopular girl winning homecoming queen, made me want to go and vote.
  From the 1920s until the start of WWII a carnival queen was plucked annually from the town's prettiest girls and given a short spell in the limelight.
  Sunday will also see the traditional carnival parade - a procession through the town centre including brass, samba and pipe bands, floats, walking groups in fancy dress and carnival queens.
  Last Friday, however, the boys captured the warrior queen of the girls.
  Teenage girls were crowned queen of the potato festival.
  Prestwich's own carnival queens will be selling the programmes outside the supermarket each Saturday and Sunday leading up to the big day itself.
  Two vintage cars, owned by Mr Mchugh, carried the carnival queen and the mayor.
  The first carnival event will be the appointment of the carnival royalty, including carnival queen, princess and prince, in the town hall on April 30.
  The principal was about to announce homecoming king, queen, prince, and princess.
  Yet the former beauty queen has worked her way to the fringes of the British establishment.
  It's one of those letter jackets with the shiny leather sleeves, the kind real athletes wear while strolling college campuses, homecoming queens on their arms.
  The evening continued with Killybegs Festival Carnival led by the festival queen.
  And carnival queens from Tiptree, Burnham, Braintree, Witham and Wickford were given the celebrity treatment, riding in style in the back of luxury stretch limos.
  A host of carnival queens from the region clutched their brollies and smiled at onlookers as they led the procession down Drake Street.
  Another addition this year will be a festival queen and two princesses chosen from local girls.
  All significant events where I grew up involve people carted around town by tractor, including the carnival queens and carol singers.
  Leanne has had her heart set on becoming the carnival queen for a number of years and was really delighted.
  Prospective carnival queens can either fill out an application form on the night of the competition or ring this number for one in advance.
  In the afternoon before the procession, carnival queens from all over the county will take part in a contest to choose the Queen of Queens.
  And carnival queens will not be allowed to sit on cars.
4. 1.4dated (in the UK) the national anthem when there is a female sovereign.
  〈旧〉（英国女王在位时的）国歌
5. 1.5informal A man's wife or girlfriend.
  〈非正式〉爱妻；心上人；女朋友
  Synonyms
  girlfriend, girl, sweetheart, partner, significant other, inamorata, fiancée
2The most powerful chess piece that each player has, able to move in any direction along a rank, file, or diagonal on which it stands.
（国际象棋中的）后
Example sentencesExamples
- With white he quickly swung his queen over to the kingside and proceeded to advance his pawns.
- ‘In chess, when a queen is beleaguered, it is sometimes necessary to sacrifice a knight to save the game,’ he told the media.
- After some deliberation, he moved his queen diagonally across the board, capturing Adam's remaining knight.
- Anand sacrificed his queen on move 22, getting a rook and knight in return.
- Thus, in the context of a chess game, moving your queen to a square adjacent to your opponent's king counts as a check.
- David moved his queen left diagonally two spaces.
- Garry was, however, able to save himself by sacrificing his queen for rook, knight and pawn, plus an attack.
- On move 20, the two players liquidated their queens and after swapping pieces in the next 10 moves, they were almost in a balanced position.
- In this position the queen in the corner is a problem, so I planned 2.b3 to bring it into play.
- I moved my queen to mid-board, hoping to establish an offensive.
- After the queens came off on move 40, Korchnoi was left with 6 pawns to Galliamova's knight and 2 soldiers.
- As far as movement, he's as versatile as the queen piece on a chess board.
- Black must find a way to involve some more pieces beyond the queen and rook on c8.
- His king was caught in a mating net and to avoid it he would have lost his queen, so he resigned after 29 moves.
- Aware that I had already won a small victory by being the last standing player, I made a bold move with my queen.
- Both players sacrificed their queens early, but Kasparov deliberated over a simple sacrifice exchange later in the match, which baffled analysts.
- In top tournaments, in which electronic boards are used, each set of pieces has an extra queen for each side.
- It was also obvious that Kasparov would soon be able to make a new queen, giving him an overwhelming material advantage.
- His point is that the queen's position on h6 gives white the additional annoying possibility of 12.Nh4!
- Miss Watson left her queen en prise against Miss Gooding, who failed to notice and eventually lost.
3A playing card bearing a representation of a queen, normally ranking next below a king and above a jack.
（牌戏中的）王后（牌），Q（牌）
Example sentencesExamples
- He laid down an ace, a king, a queen, a jack and a ten.
- A Kirby is often used when a player has many trumps, or cards above the value of queens (kings and Aces).
- Anyone who holds the ace, king, queen, jack or ten of hearts takes all the chips from that space.
- The ace, king, queen, jack and ten of each suit are worth one point each, so that the pack contains 20 points in all.
- A combination consisting of a king and a queen of each suit is sometimes known as a roundhouse.
- Note that all the queens, including diamonds, also carry their normal 3 points, which cannot be annulled.
- The object is to take tricks containing aces, 10s, kings, queens and jacks.
- If the queen of spades is dealt face down, then there is no chance of the hand being reset.
- In this game kings, queens and jacks are worth half a point each, and the numeral cards are worth their face value.
- Another variation is to count face cards as numbers; jacks have a value of eleven, queens twelve, and kings thirteen.
- The queen of clubs belongs for all purposes to the trump suit, not to the club suit.
- It consists of ace, king, queen, jack, ten, all in the same suit.
- There are no trumps at the start, but if the side winning a trick hold the king and queen of a suit, they can make that suit trumps.
- You should generally try to avoid playing aces, kings, queens and jacks except when capturing or building with them.
- Players may agree to value the jacks, queens, kings and aces at ten points each; this makes the count faster.
- To this day, packs of Italian playing-cards do not have queens - nor do packs in Spain, Germany and Switzerland (among others).
- Whoever receives the ace is the first dealer; the player with the king sits to that player's left, then the queen and so on down, in clockwise order.
- The dealer flops an ace, queen and jack - two of them spades.
- The face cards - the jack, queen and king - and the joker each have a different kind of dog painted on them.
- The deck is prepared by first removing the kings, queens, and jacks, and then separating the colors, leaving you with two 20-card decks.
4Entomology
A reproductive female in a colony of social ants, bees, wasps, or termites, frequently the only one present in a colony.
〔昆〕蚁后，蜂后
Example sentencesExamples
- However, clear evidence of nepotism in the rearing of queens in social insects is limited and controversial.
- We present data on reproductive partitioning among queens in the ant Leptothorax rugatulus with special emphasis on relatedness and body size.
- Mole-rats are the only known mammals to live in large colonies presided over by a queen (like ants and termites).
- The worker bees die at the end of summer and the impregnated queen starts a new colony when warm weather returns.
- Eusocial insect colonies are frequently headed by multiple reproductive queens.
- Although queens heading neighboring colonies are not close relatives, fixation indices show significant genetic differentiation among aggregation sites.
- Mound densities were 33 percent less in sites with the parasitic ant, and the number of fire ant queens was 47 percent less in parasitized colonies.
- Nevertheless, these queens also compete for reproductive shares within a colony of limited resources.
- But in an unusual role reversal, paper wasp queens beg their young for a meal.
- This potent fungus, which also kills termites, doesn't harm bees or affect their queen's production.
- There seems to be the implicit assumption that queens of social insects have little or no cost of reproduction because they are amply supplied with resources by their workers.
- Colonies of this species typically contain multiple queens, and most reproductive individuals mate within their parental nest without dispersing.
- Among a species known as the little fire ant, both queens and males reproduce asexually, a new study has found.
- As a result, the progeny of a single queen (a normal bee colony) make up a genetically diverse population.
- The queen and half of the bees fly off to begin a new hive, and the remaining bees raise a new queen and continue reproducing.
- In the ant Leptothorax albipennis, the queen is carried during colony emigration.
- A major distinction in the social organization of ant societies is the number of queens that inhabit a colony.
- To alleviate this problem, some people care for wasp queens in winter.
- Therefore, it is possible that Africanized drones may have hybridized with European queens, which established colonies at WWR as early as 1991.
- Should a colony containing more than one queen be separated into subunits, any subunit containing a queen can become independent over time.
5An adult female cat that has not been spayed.
母猫
Example sentencesExamples
- Mousers left their prey, elder toms left their warm places by the fire, kittens left their meals, queens grabbed a kitten from their nest, and they all ran to the woods.
Synonyms
cat, domestic cat, wild cat, alley cat, kitten
6informal A homosexual man, especially one regarded as ostentatiously effeminate.
〈非正式〉（尤指脂粉气的）同性恋男子
Synonyms
homosexual man, homosexual, gay

verb kwiːn

[with object]

1queen it over(of a woman) behave in an unpleasantly superior way towards (someone)
（女人）对…摆架子，对…专横跋扈
Monique was queening it over everybody
Example sentencesExamples
- Her in-laws irked her, and she tried to queen it over them, with results resembling the outcome likely to have occurred if Isabella of Castile had issued edicts in a church hall on bingo night.
- In scene one, Edie, the make-believe cheerleader, queens it over bashful high-school boy Tom.
- Formerly the Queen of the Groucho Club, she now spends more time queening it over Brighton where she lives.
- I've no element of self-loathing but I do realise that part of my success is just me showing off, and wanting to queen it over other people, to be frank with you.
2Chess
Convert (a pawn) into a queen when it reaches the opponent's back rank on the board.
〔棋〕使（兵）变后
Example sentencesExamples
- Winning one more pawn, Saravanan never looked back and closed in on his opponent in a rook-bishop-knight ending by queening his pawn.
- The Black pawn could only be stopped from queening by allowing a drawn king and pawn endgame.
- But it was still enough, and as both players queened a pawn, it was Bareev who was first to check.
- Both players queened a pawn after 56 moves, but Korchnoi managed to check and grab the knight leaving him up 2 passed pawns, and Galliamova resigned after 64 moves.
- A Slav drawn in 22 moves after a short burst of excitement where Kramnik gave up his queen, then queened a pawn to re-establish material equality.

Derivatives

queendom

noun

Baron of Bunkum - the best source for dross and drivel in the queendom!
Example sentencesExamples
- The brunt of each episode consists of Ruby locked in her antiseptic queendom, constantly bossing Max around in a purgatory of pushiness.
- Before she danced and sang her way to pop queendom, Madonna attended which university?
- ‘Most would have been monumentally crestfallen to have queendom stolen away from them,’ he said.

queenless

adjective

He became the first queenless king in all of history!
Example sentencesExamples
- This was a more dramatic example, as in a queenless middlegame White played b4-b5 (without a- or c-pawns) while Black had pawns on a6 and c6.
- In the queenless ant S. peetersi, dyadic aggressions lead to a hierarchy, and only alpha mates (with one foreign male) and lays eggs.
- Bareev opts to squeeze Shirov in the minimalist queenless middlegame arising from a Queen's Gambit Accepted - the position type seen in the memorable game 4 of the recent Kramnik-Kasparov match - where Bareev was a Kramnik second.
- Japanese queenless ants, Pristomyrmex pungens, have been observed defending their nests, food resources, and recruitment trails against other conspecific colony members.

queenlike

adjective

She sat in queen-like fashion on the kitchen stool, looking faintly disapproving and intent on examining her newly painted nails.
Example sentencesExamples
- Gillot in Colerique, with sharp movements and hot temper, was in her elements and led the company on to the finale with a queen-like authority.
- It shows the Queen with orb and sceptre as emblems of her rule appearing queen-like rather than as an individualised subject.
- This will give an indication of how queen-like the anarchistic worker-laid eggs are, because the viability of worker-laid and queen-laid eggs are similar, so any differences in persistence will be the result of egg removal.
- Ovaries were assigned categorical scores from zero (no visible oocyte development, filamentous) to three (fully developed, queen-like ovaries).

queenship

noun ˈkwiːnʃɪpˈkwinˌʃɪp

But the chess queen's fascinating history calls for a more nuanced understanding of queenship, if such an institution existed, of the interaction of symbol and meaning and of the complex interplay of historical change.
Example sentencesExamples
- That the queenship is vacant, that Esther meets the standards for being elected, is indeed taken to the court, and pleases the king, are but a few of the many coincidences that lead to the salvation of the Jews.
- Caesar receives Antony's schoolmaster, sent with terms for peace: continuing queenship for Cleopatra, and a private life in either Alexandria or Athens for Antony.
- Under physical competition for queenship, larger individuals should often be able to physically dominate others.
- Having edited two notable collections on kingship and queenship, Anne Duggan has now logically turned her attention towards the next rank down in the hierarchy.

queenhood

noun

Origin

Old English cwēn, of Germanic origin; related to quean.

The Old English spelling of queen was cwēn. This originally meant ‘a wife’, specifically that of a king or some other important man. Related to cwēn was Old English cwene ‘woman’, which became the archaic quean, ‘a bold or impudent woman’, sometimes encountered in Shakespeare's work. In the 16th and 17th centuries it was also a term for a prostitute. Because the two words came to be pronounced in the same way the derogatory sense dropped out of use as too confusing. The sense of queen ‘an effeminate gay man’ dates from the beginning of the 20th century.

Rhymes

Aberdeen, Amin, aquamarine, baleen, bean, been, beguine, Benin, between, canteen, careen, Claudine, clean, contravene, convene, cuisine, dean, Dene, e'en, eighteen, fascine, fedayeen, fifteen, figurine, foreseen, fourteen, Francine, gean, gene, glean, gombeen, green, Greene, Halloween, intervene, Janine, Jean, Jeannine, Jolene, Kean, keen, Keene, Ladin, langoustine, latrine, lean, limousine, machine, Maclean, magazine, Malines, margarine, marine, Mascarene, Massine, Maxine, mean, Medellín, mesne, mien, Moline, moreen, mujahedin, Nadine, nankeen, Nazarene, Nene, nineteen, nougatine, obscene, palanquin, peen, poteen, preen, quean, Rabin, Racine, ramin, ravine, routine, Sabine, saltine, sardine, sarin, sateen, scene, screen, seen, serene, seventeen, shagreen, shebeen, sheen, sixteen, spleen, spring-clean, squireen, Steen, submarine, supervene, tambourine, tangerine, teen, terrine, thirteen, transmarine, treen, tureen, Tyrrhene, ultramarine, umpteen, velveteen, wean, ween, Wheen, yean

Queen²

proper nounkwiːn

A British rock group featuring vocalist Freddie Mercury (1946–91). Queen were known for their extravagant, almost operatic brand of rock, as exemplified by the hugely successful ‘Bohemian Rhapsody’ (1975).

Definition of queen in US English:

queen

nounkwinkwēn

1The female ruler of an independent state, especially one who inherits the position by right of birth.
女王；女酋长；女首领
Example sentencesExamples
- Children also took part in period dances including the lively farandole from Provence and the slower pavan, both dating back to the time of Tudor kings and queens.
- Earlier, the queen and Prince Philip watched a golden jubilee parade in Windsor and started a nationwide jubilee music party during a visit to Slough.
- And for those who watched the funeral of the Princess of Wales, it was when Elton John sang that the queen was most moved.
- In some ways, she was better poised, by temperament, to be a royal than the queen, which is a funny thing when you kind of think about it.
- Only 30% favour having a king or queen who inherits the position for life.
- This was once the place of royal summer retreat, and there is a wealth of stories about the kings, queens, princes and princesses who spent time here.
- The broadcaster's new 24-part series on television series on kings and queens, Monarchy, begins tomorrow night on Channel Four and will continue for the next four years.
- She became a queen and gave birth to a future queen, and in the process became beloved by the British people.
- Visitors to Windsor Castle are to be given a glimpse of the drawings, books and documents collected by the Stuart kings and queens during their 100-year reign.
- After all, if a woman who marries a sovereign king becomes a queen consort, why shouldn't a man who marries a sovereign queen become a king consort?
- In the 1840s, the Ardverikie Estate was leased by the Duke of Abercorn, a senior aide to Prince Albert, the queen's husband.
- It examines two powerful queens, how they used their power differently and how they suffered in love; two women imprisoned by the powerful roles they inhabit.
- Zapatero is now pushing a proposal that would allow Spanish princesses to become queens if they are the firstborn.
- Anne was a queen without a king, even though she had a spouse, who played the public but informal role of a loyal and obedient subject.
- Here, as we have seen, their ruler was the pro-Roman queen, Cartimandua whose seat may have been at Stanwick, near Scotch Corner.
- Elizabeth Bowes Lyon was mother to a queen, wife to a king, sister-in-law to another king.
- Not surprisingly, England's first female rulers, the sixteenth-century Tudor queens Mary I and Elizabeth I, assumed power as single women.
- The English and French monarchs were kings and queens of the land and not the people.
- The basic thing for a sovereign king or a queen of a country is service to the people.
- Of course, this in no way undermines the contributions of other historical British queens and queen consorts.
Synonyms
monarch, sovereign, head of state, ruler, crown, her majesty
1. 1.1 A king's wife.
  Example sentencesExamples
  What she obviously meant was that the new queen became the favourite wife of the emperor.
  While Elliott remains a staunch supporter of King Louis XVI and his queen, Marie Antoinette, the Duke sides with the anti-monarchists.
  Some of his prophecies appeared to be fulfilled, and his fame became so widespread that he was invited to the court of Catherine de Medicis, queen consort of Henry II of France, where he cast the horoscopes of her children.
  Convention has it that when the king comes to the throne, his wife then becomes queen.
  The impressive scale of this escort was designed to convey an unmistakable message about the status and importance of those who were to be accompanied, namely the queen consort of the King of Scotland and England and the royal children.
  His tolerance to other religions perhaps came from his many queens including his principle wife who was a Hindu.
  The central room contains the epitaphs of the emperor Humayun and his queen, and is crowned by great double dome.
  A boom period followed the successful televising of the coronation of George VI and his queen consort on 12 May 1937.
  King Gyanendra, who ascended the throne June 4, declared his wife, Princess Komal, the queen of Nepal the same day.
  The king, queen and prince also sent messages of condolence.
  The drama tells the story of a king who takes a second wife because his Chinese queen is unable to bear children.
  Born in 1542, she married the French Dauphin in 1558 and became the queen consort a year later.
  He immediately wrote a note to his wife, the queen.
  King Norodom Sihanouk and his queen always enjoy the annual ceremony and the prime minister, other leaders and thousands of ordinary people also participate in the event.
  Salomon, the eldest, arrived first, around 1607, and his earliest works were for the queen consort, Anne of Denmark.
  The Medallion was simply a memento with pictures of the king and queen and inscription ‘Royal Tour 1947.’
  Prince Gyanendra contradicted officials who suggested that Crown Prince Dipendra killed King Birendra, the queen and six other royals in a dispute.
  According to the scandalmongers, the then Prince of Wales had inherited these emeralds from Alexandra for the purpose of passing them down to his future wife, the next queen of England.
  The Pavillion de La Bouexiere, as it was called in the eighteenth century, attracted noted celebrities such as Louis XV's queen consort, Marie Leszczynska.
  Before departing, the king directed that his queen consort should follow him to London within about twenty days.
  Synonyms
  monarch, sovereign, head of state, ruler, crown, her majesty
2. 1.2 A woman or thing regarded as excellent or outstanding of its kind.
  （某领域的）王后；精华；出类拔萃者
  the queen of romance novelists
  Venice: Queen of the Adriatic
  Example sentencesExamples
  The HS748, the queen of the skies, has provided outstanding service to the Air Force and the nation in the past 37 years.
  Tanya had always been the fashion queen and it was because of that that her friends always deferred to her on issues of style.
  The production team and crew under the direction of the queen of panto in Ballylinan Bernie Dunne are once again looking forward to yet another busy run.
  In the studio the Eastenders cast will get makeovers from fashion queens Trinny and Susannah as part of a What Not To Wear special.
  Economics is often described as the queen of the social sciences.
  For the queen of fashion herself, I will make sure my party starts early enough so that she can drop by for her customary 10 minutes before going off to bed at 10 pm.
  Until recently, botanists have met with similar impenetrability when asking these questions about orchids, the glamour queens of the plant kingdom.
  This guy had more fashion sense than the queen of fashion.
  But most importantly, Kathie remains the undisputed queen of the council chamber.
  Former classical fashion queens such as Audrey Hepburn and Jackie Kennedy had a faithful following in the city.
  Also, since you've been called the queen of fantasy romance, i could use any pointers you have!
  Sunday was family day and the best-dressed lady was selected from the many queens of fashion that paraded the latest styles throughout the course.
  Long and thin or fat and tubular, pasta is the queen of comfort foods this winter.
  Mary Quant, undoubtedly fashion queen of the decade, rose to fame in 1966.
  And if that doesn't make me the official queen of Google, nothing will.
  Hillary Luigio was a sporty half-Italian girl who was the queen of gossip.
  The world famous queen of fashion, Vivienne Westwood, holding her first ever fashion show in Shanghai!
  For once, Kerry's queens of fashion were upstaged by a queen from another land - but they didn't seem to mind.
  We are throwing down the gauntlet: Who is the next queen of Wife Swap?
  The lifelong rivalry of cosmetics queens Elizabeth Arden and Helena Rubinstein makes for riveting reading.
  Synonyms
  doyenne, star, leading light, celebrity, big name, superstar, top dog, queen bee, mistress, prima donna, idol, heroine, favourite, darling
3. 1.3 A woman or girl chosen to hold the most important position in a festival or event.
  （节日或活动中）当选要职的女子
  football stars and homecoming queens
  Example sentencesExamples
  The first carnival event will be the appointment of the carnival royalty, including carnival queen, princess and prince, in the town hall on April 30.
  Sunday will also see the traditional carnival parade - a procession through the town centre including brass, samba and pipe bands, floats, walking groups in fancy dress and carnival queens.
  Yet the former beauty queen has worked her way to the fringes of the British establishment.
  And carnival queens will not be allowed to sit on cars.
  The principal was about to announce homecoming king, queen, prince, and princess.
  A host of carnival queens from the region clutched their brollies and smiled at onlookers as they led the procession down Drake Street.
  From the 1920s until the start of WWII a carnival queen was plucked annually from the town's prettiest girls and given a short spell in the limelight.
  It's one of those letter jackets with the shiny leather sleeves, the kind real athletes wear while strolling college campuses, homecoming queens on their arms.
  Two vintage cars, owned by Mr Mchugh, carried the carnival queen and the mayor.
  Last Friday, however, the boys captured the warrior queen of the girls.
  All significant events where I grew up involve people carted around town by tractor, including the carnival queens and carol singers.
  Prestwich's own carnival queens will be selling the programmes outside the supermarket each Saturday and Sunday leading up to the big day itself.
  Jill's post about this, and her analogy to the unpopular girl winning homecoming queen, made me want to go and vote.
  Leanne has had her heart set on becoming the carnival queen for a number of years and was really delighted.
  Teenage girls were crowned queen of the potato festival.
  In the afternoon before the procession, carnival queens from all over the county will take part in a contest to choose the Queen of Queens.
  Another addition this year will be a festival queen and two princesses chosen from local girls.
  Prospective carnival queens can either fill out an application form on the night of the competition or ring this number for one in advance.
  The evening continued with Killybegs Festival Carnival led by the festival queen.
  And carnival queens from Tiptree, Burnham, Braintree, Witham and Wickford were given the celebrity treatment, riding in style in the back of luxury stretch limos.
4. 1.4the Queendated (in the UK) the national anthem when there is a female sovereign.
  〈旧〉（英国女王在位时的）国歌
5. 1.5informal A man's wife or girlfriend.
  〈非正式〉爱妻；心上人；女朋友
  Synonyms
  girlfriend, girl, sweetheart, partner, significant other, inamorata, fiancée
2The most powerful chess piece that each player has, able to move any number of unobstructed squares in any direction along a rank, file, or diagonal on which it stands.
（国际象棋中的）后
Example sentencesExamples
- On move 20, the two players liquidated their queens and after swapping pieces in the next 10 moves, they were almost in a balanced position.
- Black must find a way to involve some more pieces beyond the queen and rook on c8.
- After some deliberation, he moved his queen diagonally across the board, capturing Adam's remaining knight.
- Miss Watson left her queen en prise against Miss Gooding, who failed to notice and eventually lost.
- With white he quickly swung his queen over to the kingside and proceeded to advance his pawns.
- ‘In chess, when a queen is beleaguered, it is sometimes necessary to sacrifice a knight to save the game,’ he told the media.
- As far as movement, he's as versatile as the queen piece on a chess board.
- In top tournaments, in which electronic boards are used, each set of pieces has an extra queen for each side.
- I moved my queen to mid-board, hoping to establish an offensive.
- Both players sacrificed their queens early, but Kasparov deliberated over a simple sacrifice exchange later in the match, which baffled analysts.
- Thus, in the context of a chess game, moving your queen to a square adjacent to your opponent's king counts as a check.
- After the queens came off on move 40, Korchnoi was left with 6 pawns to Galliamova's knight and 2 soldiers.
- It was also obvious that Kasparov would soon be able to make a new queen, giving him an overwhelming material advantage.
- David moved his queen left diagonally two spaces.
- Anand sacrificed his queen on move 22, getting a rook and knight in return.
- In this position the queen in the corner is a problem, so I planned 2.b3 to bring it into play.
- His king was caught in a mating net and to avoid it he would have lost his queen, so he resigned after 29 moves.
- Aware that I had already won a small victory by being the last standing player, I made a bold move with my queen.
- Garry was, however, able to save himself by sacrificing his queen for rook, knight and pawn, plus an attack.
- His point is that the queen's position on h6 gives white the additional annoying possibility of 12.Nh4!
3A playing card bearing a representation of a queen, normally ranking next below a king and above a jack.
（牌戏中的）王后（牌），Q（牌）
Example sentencesExamples
- Note that all the queens, including diamonds, also carry their normal 3 points, which cannot be annulled.
- It consists of ace, king, queen, jack, ten, all in the same suit.
- Another variation is to count face cards as numbers; jacks have a value of eleven, queens twelve, and kings thirteen.
- In this game kings, queens and jacks are worth half a point each, and the numeral cards are worth their face value.
- The deck is prepared by first removing the kings, queens, and jacks, and then separating the colors, leaving you with two 20-card decks.
- The object is to take tricks containing aces, 10s, kings, queens and jacks.
- A Kirby is often used when a player has many trumps, or cards above the value of queens (kings and Aces).
- If the queen of spades is dealt face down, then there is no chance of the hand being reset.
- A combination consisting of a king and a queen of each suit is sometimes known as a roundhouse.
- Anyone who holds the ace, king, queen, jack or ten of hearts takes all the chips from that space.
- The dealer flops an ace, queen and jack - two of them spades.
- Players may agree to value the jacks, queens, kings and aces at ten points each; this makes the count faster.
- Whoever receives the ace is the first dealer; the player with the king sits to that player's left, then the queen and so on down, in clockwise order.
- The face cards - the jack, queen and king - and the joker each have a different kind of dog painted on them.
- You should generally try to avoid playing aces, kings, queens and jacks except when capturing or building with them.
- The ace, king, queen, jack and ten of each suit are worth one point each, so that the pack contains 20 points in all.
- He laid down an ace, a king, a queen, a jack and a ten.
- To this day, packs of Italian playing-cards do not have queens - nor do packs in Spain, Germany and Switzerland (among others).
- The queen of clubs belongs for all purposes to the trump suit, not to the club suit.
- There are no trumps at the start, but if the side winning a trick hold the king and queen of a suit, they can make that suit trumps.
4Entomology
A reproductive female in a colony of social ants, bees, wasps, etc.
〔昆〕蚁后，蜂后
Example sentencesExamples
- The queen and half of the bees fly off to begin a new hive, and the remaining bees raise a new queen and continue reproducing.
- Should a colony containing more than one queen be separated into subunits, any subunit containing a queen can become independent over time.
- A major distinction in the social organization of ant societies is the number of queens that inhabit a colony.
- Mound densities were 33 percent less in sites with the parasitic ant, and the number of fire ant queens was 47 percent less in parasitized colonies.
- There seems to be the implicit assumption that queens of social insects have little or no cost of reproduction because they are amply supplied with resources by their workers.
- But in an unusual role reversal, paper wasp queens beg their young for a meal.
- Therefore, it is possible that Africanized drones may have hybridized with European queens, which established colonies at WWR as early as 1991.
- We present data on reproductive partitioning among queens in the ant Leptothorax rugatulus with special emphasis on relatedness and body size.
- As a result, the progeny of a single queen (a normal bee colony) make up a genetically diverse population.
- In the ant Leptothorax albipennis, the queen is carried during colony emigration.
- Among a species known as the little fire ant, both queens and males reproduce asexually, a new study has found.
- To alleviate this problem, some people care for wasp queens in winter.
- The worker bees die at the end of summer and the impregnated queen starts a new colony when warm weather returns.
- Colonies of this species typically contain multiple queens, and most reproductive individuals mate within their parental nest without dispersing.
- Nevertheless, these queens also compete for reproductive shares within a colony of limited resources.
- Mole-rats are the only known mammals to live in large colonies presided over by a queen (like ants and termites).
- However, clear evidence of nepotism in the rearing of queens in social insects is limited and controversial.
- Eusocial insect colonies are frequently headed by multiple reproductive queens.
- Although queens heading neighboring colonies are not close relatives, fixation indices show significant genetic differentiation among aggregation sites.
- This potent fungus, which also kills termites, doesn't harm bees or affect their queen's production.
5An adult female cat that has not been spayed.
母猫
Example sentencesExamples
- Mousers left their prey, elder toms left their warm places by the fire, kittens left their meals, queens grabbed a kitten from their nest, and they all ran to the woods.
Synonyms
cat, domestic cat, wild cat, alley cat, kitten
6informal A homosexual man, especially one regarded as ostentatiously effeminate.
〈非正式〉（尤指脂粉气的）同性恋男子
Synonyms
homosexual man, homosexual, gay

verbkwinkwēn

[with object]

1queen it over(of a woman) behave in an unpleasantly superior way toward (someone).
（女人）对…摆架子，对…专横跋扈
Example sentencesExamples
- In scene one, Edie, the make-believe cheerleader, queens it over bashful high-school boy Tom.
- Her in-laws irked her, and she tried to queen it over them, with results resembling the outcome likely to have occurred if Isabella of Castile had issued edicts in a church hall on bingo night.
- Formerly the Queen of the Groucho Club, she now spends more time queening it over Brighton where she lives.
- I've no element of self-loathing but I do realise that part of my success is just me showing off, and wanting to queen it over other people, to be frank with you.
2Chess
Convert (a pawn) into a queen when it reaches the opponent's back rank on the board.
〔棋〕使（兵）变后
Example sentencesExamples
- A Slav drawn in 22 moves after a short burst of excitement where Kramnik gave up his queen, then queened a pawn to re-establish material equality.
- The Black pawn could only be stopped from queening by allowing a drawn king and pawn endgame.
- Winning one more pawn, Saravanan never looked back and closed in on his opponent in a rook-bishop-knight ending by queening his pawn.
- But it was still enough, and as both players queened a pawn, it was Bareev who was first to check.
- Both players queened a pawn after 56 moves, but Korchnoi managed to check and grab the knight leaving him up 2 passed pawns, and Galliamova resigned after 64 moves.

Origin

Old English cwēn, of Germanic origin; related to quean.

单词	queen
释义	queen¹ noun kwiːn 1The female ruler of an independent state, especially one who inherits the position by right of birth. 女王；女酋长；女首领 as title Queen Victoria as complement he insisted the princess could be crowned queen Example sentencesExamples The English and French monarchs were kings and queens of the land and not the people. In some ways, she was better poised, by temperament, to be a royal than the queen, which is a funny thing when you kind of think about it. Earlier, the queen and Prince Philip watched a golden jubilee parade in Windsor and started a nationwide jubilee music party during a visit to Slough. And for those who watched the funeral of the Princess of Wales, it was when Elton John sang that the queen was most moved. In the 1840s, the Ardverikie Estate was leased by the Duke of Abercorn, a senior aide to Prince Albert, the queen's husband. After all, if a woman who marries a sovereign king becomes a queen consort, why shouldn't a man who marries a sovereign queen become a king consort? This was once the place of royal summer retreat, and there is a wealth of stories about the kings, queens, princes and princesses who spent time here. It examines two powerful queens, how they used their power differently and how they suffered in love; two women imprisoned by the powerful roles they inhabit. Not surprisingly, England's first female rulers, the sixteenth-century Tudor queens Mary I and Elizabeth I, assumed power as single women. Children also took part in period dances including the lively farandole from Provence and the slower pavan, both dating back to the time of Tudor kings and queens. Of course, this in no way undermines the contributions of other historical British queens and queen consorts. Here, as we have seen, their ruler was the pro-Roman queen, Cartimandua whose seat may have been at Stanwick, near Scotch Corner. Elizabeth Bowes Lyon was mother to a queen, wife to a king, sister-in-law to another king. Visitors to Windsor Castle are to be given a glimpse of the drawings, books and documents collected by the Stuart kings and queens during their 100-year reign. Only 30% favour having a king or queen who inherits the position for life. She became a queen and gave birth to a future queen, and in the process became beloved by the British people. The broadcaster's new 24-part series on television series on kings and queens, Monarchy, begins tomorrow night on Channel Four and will continue for the next four years. Zapatero is now pushing a proposal that would allow Spanish princesses to become queens if they are the firstborn. Anne was a queen without a king, even though she had a spouse, who played the public but informal role of a loyal and obedient subject. The basic thing for a sovereign king or a queen of a country is service to the people. Synonyms monarch, sovereign, head of state, ruler, crown, her majesty 1.1 A king's wife. Example sentencesExamples Salomon, the eldest, arrived first, around 1607, and his earliest works were for the queen consort, Anne of Denmark. Before departing, the king directed that his queen consort should follow him to London within about twenty days. The Medallion was simply a memento with pictures of the king and queen and inscription ‘Royal Tour 1947.’ He immediately wrote a note to his wife, the queen. The king, queen and prince also sent messages of condolence. According to the scandalmongers, the then Prince of Wales had inherited these emeralds from Alexandra for the purpose of passing them down to his future wife, the next queen of England. A boom period followed the successful televising of the coronation of George VI and his queen consort on 12 May 1937. The drama tells the story of a king who takes a second wife because his Chinese queen is unable to bear children. The central room contains the epitaphs of the emperor Humayun and his queen, and is crowned by great double dome. King Gyanendra, who ascended the throne June 4, declared his wife, Princess Komal, the queen of Nepal the same day. What she obviously meant was that the new queen became the favourite wife of the emperor. Born in 1542, she married the French Dauphin in 1558 and became the queen consort a year later. His tolerance to other religions perhaps came from his many queens including his principle wife who was a Hindu. The Pavillion de La Bouexiere, as it was called in the eighteenth century, attracted noted celebrities such as Louis XV's queen consort, Marie Leszczynska. Prince Gyanendra contradicted officials who suggested that Crown Prince Dipendra killed King Birendra, the queen and six other royals in a dispute. The impressive scale of this escort was designed to convey an unmistakable message about the status and importance of those who were to be accompanied, namely the queen consort of the King of Scotland and England and the royal children. Some of his prophecies appeared to be fulfilled, and his fame became so widespread that he was invited to the court of Catherine de Medicis, queen consort of Henry II of France, where he cast the horoscopes of her children. While Elliott remains a staunch supporter of King Louis XVI and his queen, Marie Antoinette, the Duke sides with the anti-monarchists. King Norodom Sihanouk and his queen always enjoy the annual ceremony and the prime minister, other leaders and thousands of ordinary people also participate in the event. Convention has it that when the king comes to the throne, his wife then becomes queen. Synonyms monarch, sovereign, head of state, ruler, crown, her majesty 1.2 A woman or thing regarded as the finest or most outstanding in a particular sphere or group. （某领域的）王后；精华；出类拔萃者 the queen of the social columns 办得最好的社会专栏。 Example sentencesExamples The lifelong rivalry of cosmetics queens Elizabeth Arden and Helena Rubinstein makes for riveting reading. The HS748, the queen of the skies, has provided outstanding service to the Air Force and the nation in the past 37 years. And if that doesn't make me the official queen of Google, nothing will. Former classical fashion queens such as Audrey Hepburn and Jackie Kennedy had a faithful following in the city. In the studio the Eastenders cast will get makeovers from fashion queens Trinny and Susannah as part of a What Not To Wear special. The world famous queen of fashion, Vivienne Westwood, holding her first ever fashion show in Shanghai! Also, since you've been called the queen of fantasy romance, i could use any pointers you have! Until recently, botanists have met with similar impenetrability when asking these questions about orchids, the glamour queens of the plant kingdom. This guy had more fashion sense than the queen of fashion. Economics is often described as the queen of the social sciences. We are throwing down the gauntlet: Who is the next queen of Wife Swap? For once, Kerry's queens of fashion were upstaged by a queen from another land - but they didn't seem to mind. Hillary Luigio was a sporty half-Italian girl who was the queen of gossip. Long and thin or fat and tubular, pasta is the queen of comfort foods this winter. For the queen of fashion herself, I will make sure my party starts early enough so that she can drop by for her customary 10 minutes before going off to bed at 10 pm. But most importantly, Kathie remains the undisputed queen of the council chamber. Tanya had always been the fashion queen and it was because of that that her friends always deferred to her on issues of style. Mary Quant, undoubtedly fashion queen of the decade, rose to fame in 1966. The production team and crew under the direction of the queen of panto in Ballylinan Bernie Dunne are once again looking forward to yet another busy run. Sunday was family day and the best-dressed lady was selected from the many queens of fashion that paraded the latest styles throughout the course. Synonyms doyenne, star, leading light, celebrity, big name, superstar, top dog, queen bee, mistress, prima donna, idol, heroine, favourite, darling goddess, belle, pin-up 1.3 A woman or girl chosen to hold the most important position in a festival or event. （节日或活动中）当选要职的女子 she's the official carnival queen 她是官方指派的狂欢节女王。 Example sentencesExamples Jill's post about this, and her analogy to the unpopular girl winning homecoming queen, made me want to go and vote. From the 1920s until the start of WWII a carnival queen was plucked annually from the town's prettiest girls and given a short spell in the limelight. Sunday will also see the traditional carnival parade - a procession through the town centre including brass, samba and pipe bands, floats, walking groups in fancy dress and carnival queens. Last Friday, however, the boys captured the warrior queen of the girls. Teenage girls were crowned queen of the potato festival. Prestwich's own carnival queens will be selling the programmes outside the supermarket each Saturday and Sunday leading up to the big day itself. Two vintage cars, owned by Mr Mchugh, carried the carnival queen and the mayor. The first carnival event will be the appointment of the carnival royalty, including carnival queen, princess and prince, in the town hall on April 30. The principal was about to announce homecoming king, queen, prince, and princess. Yet the former beauty queen has worked her way to the fringes of the British establishment. It's one of those letter jackets with the shiny leather sleeves, the kind real athletes wear while strolling college campuses, homecoming queens on their arms. The evening continued with Killybegs Festival Carnival led by the festival queen. And carnival queens from Tiptree, Burnham, Braintree, Witham and Wickford were given the celebrity treatment, riding in style in the back of luxury stretch limos. A host of carnival queens from the region clutched their brollies and smiled at onlookers as they led the procession down Drake Street. Another addition this year will be a festival queen and two princesses chosen from local girls. All significant events where I grew up involve people carted around town by tractor, including the carnival queens and carol singers. Leanne has had her heart set on becoming the carnival queen for a number of years and was really delighted. Prospective carnival queens can either fill out an application form on the night of the competition or ring this number for one in advance. In the afternoon before the procession, carnival queens from all over the county will take part in a contest to choose the Queen of Queens. And carnival queens will not be allowed to sit on cars. 1.4dated (in the UK) the national anthem when there is a female sovereign. 〈旧〉（英国女王在位时的）国歌 1.5informal A man's wife or girlfriend. 〈非正式〉爱妻；心上人；女朋友 Synonyms girlfriend, girl, sweetheart, partner, significant other, inamorata, fiancée 2The most powerful chess piece that each player has, able to move in any direction along a rank, file, or diagonal on which it stands. （国际象棋中的）后 Example sentencesExamples With white he quickly swung his queen over to the kingside and proceeded to advance his pawns. ‘In chess, when a queen is beleaguered, it is sometimes necessary to sacrifice a knight to save the game,’ he told the media. After some deliberation, he moved his queen diagonally across the board, capturing Adam's remaining knight. Anand sacrificed his queen on move 22, getting a rook and knight in return. Thus, in the context of a chess game, moving your queen to a square adjacent to your opponent's king counts as a check. David moved his queen left diagonally two spaces. Garry was, however, able to save himself by sacrificing his queen for rook, knight and pawn, plus an attack. On move 20, the two players liquidated their queens and after swapping pieces in the next 10 moves, they were almost in a balanced position. In this position the queen in the corner is a problem, so I planned 2.b3 to bring it into play. I moved my queen to mid-board, hoping to establish an offensive. After the queens came off on move 40, Korchnoi was left with 6 pawns to Galliamova's knight and 2 soldiers. As far as movement, he's as versatile as the queen piece on a chess board. Black must find a way to involve some more pieces beyond the queen and rook on c8. His king was caught in a mating net and to avoid it he would have lost his queen, so he resigned after 29 moves. Aware that I had already won a small victory by being the last standing player, I made a bold move with my queen. Both players sacrificed their queens early, but Kasparov deliberated over a simple sacrifice exchange later in the match, which baffled analysts. In top tournaments, in which electronic boards are used, each set of pieces has an extra queen for each side. It was also obvious that Kasparov would soon be able to make a new queen, giving him an overwhelming material advantage. His point is that the queen's position on h6 gives white the additional annoying possibility of 12.Nh4! Miss Watson left her queen en prise against Miss Gooding, who failed to notice and eventually lost. 3A playing card bearing a representation of a queen, normally ranking next below a king and above a jack. （牌戏中的）王后（牌），Q（牌） Example sentencesExamples He laid down an ace, a king, a queen, a jack and a ten. A Kirby is often used when a player has many trumps, or cards above the value of queens (kings and Aces). Anyone who holds the ace, king, queen, jack or ten of hearts takes all the chips from that space. The ace, king, queen, jack and ten of each suit are worth one point each, so that the pack contains 20 points in all. A combination consisting of a king and a queen of each suit is sometimes known as a roundhouse. Note that all the queens, including diamonds, also carry their normal 3 points, which cannot be annulled. The object is to take tricks containing aces, 10s, kings, queens and jacks. If the queen of spades is dealt face down, then there is no chance of the hand being reset. In this game kings, queens and jacks are worth half a point each, and the numeral cards are worth their face value. Another variation is to count face cards as numbers; jacks have a value of eleven, queens twelve, and kings thirteen. The queen of clubs belongs for all purposes to the trump suit, not to the club suit. It consists of ace, king, queen, jack, ten, all in the same suit. There are no trumps at the start, but if the side winning a trick hold the king and queen of a suit, they can make that suit trumps. You should generally try to avoid playing aces, kings, queens and jacks except when capturing or building with them. Players may agree to value the jacks, queens, kings and aces at ten points each; this makes the count faster. To this day, packs of Italian playing-cards do not have queens - nor do packs in Spain, Germany and Switzerland (among others). Whoever receives the ace is the first dealer; the player with the king sits to that player's left, then the queen and so on down, in clockwise order. The dealer flops an ace, queen and jack - two of them spades. The face cards - the jack, queen and king - and the joker each have a different kind of dog painted on them. The deck is prepared by first removing the kings, queens, and jacks, and then separating the colors, leaving you with two 20-card decks. 4Entomology A reproductive female in a colony of social ants, bees, wasps, or termites, frequently the only one present in a colony. 〔昆〕蚁后，蜂后 Example sentencesExamples However, clear evidence of nepotism in the rearing of queens in social insects is limited and controversial. We present data on reproductive partitioning among queens in the ant Leptothorax rugatulus with special emphasis on relatedness and body size. Mole-rats are the only known mammals to live in large colonies presided over by a queen (like ants and termites). The worker bees die at the end of summer and the impregnated queen starts a new colony when warm weather returns. Eusocial insect colonies are frequently headed by multiple reproductive queens. Although queens heading neighboring colonies are not close relatives, fixation indices show significant genetic differentiation among aggregation sites. Mound densities were 33 percent less in sites with the parasitic ant, and the number of fire ant queens was 47 percent less in parasitized colonies. Nevertheless, these queens also compete for reproductive shares within a colony of limited resources. But in an unusual role reversal, paper wasp queens beg their young for a meal. This potent fungus, which also kills termites, doesn't harm bees or affect their queen's production. There seems to be the implicit assumption that queens of social insects have little or no cost of reproduction because they are amply supplied with resources by their workers. Colonies of this species typically contain multiple queens, and most reproductive individuals mate within their parental nest without dispersing. Among a species known as the little fire ant, both queens and males reproduce asexually, a new study has found. As a result, the progeny of a single queen (a normal bee colony) make up a genetically diverse population. The queen and half of the bees fly off to begin a new hive, and the remaining bees raise a new queen and continue reproducing. In the ant Leptothorax albipennis, the queen is carried during colony emigration. A major distinction in the social organization of ant societies is the number of queens that inhabit a colony. To alleviate this problem, some people care for wasp queens in winter. Therefore, it is possible that Africanized drones may have hybridized with European queens, which established colonies at WWR as early as 1991. Should a colony containing more than one queen be separated into subunits, any subunit containing a queen can become independent over time. 5An adult female cat that has not been spayed. 母猫 Example sentencesExamples Mousers left their prey, elder toms left their warm places by the fire, kittens left their meals, queens grabbed a kitten from their nest, and they all ran to the woods. Synonyms cat, domestic cat, wild cat, alley cat, kitten 6informal A homosexual man, especially one regarded as ostentatiously effeminate. 〈非正式〉（尤指脂粉气的）同性恋男子 Synonyms homosexual man, homosexual, gay verb kwiːn [with object] 1queen it over(of a woman) behave in an unpleasantly superior way towards (someone) （女人）对…摆架子，对…专横跋扈 Monique was queening it over everybody Example sentencesExamples Her in-laws irked her, and she tried to queen it over them, with results resembling the outcome likely to have occurred if Isabella of Castile had issued edicts in a church hall on bingo night. In scene one, Edie, the make-believe cheerleader, queens it over bashful high-school boy Tom. Formerly the Queen of the Groucho Club, she now spends more time queening it over Brighton where she lives. I've no element of self-loathing but I do realise that part of my success is just me showing off, and wanting to queen it over other people, to be frank with you. 2Chess Convert (a pawn) into a queen when it reaches the opponent's back rank on the board. 〔棋〕使（兵）变后 Example sentencesExamples Winning one more pawn, Saravanan never looked back and closed in on his opponent in a rook-bishop-knight ending by queening his pawn. The Black pawn could only be stopped from queening by allowing a drawn king and pawn endgame. But it was still enough, and as both players queened a pawn, it was Bareev who was first to check. Both players queened a pawn after 56 moves, but Korchnoi managed to check and grab the knight leaving him up 2 passed pawns, and Galliamova resigned after 64 moves. A Slav drawn in 22 moves after a short burst of excitement where Kramnik gave up his queen, then queened a pawn to re-establish material equality. Derivatives queendom noun Baron of Bunkum - the best source for dross and drivel in the queendom! Example sentencesExamples The brunt of each episode consists of Ruby locked in her antiseptic queendom, constantly bossing Max around in a purgatory of pushiness. Before she danced and sang her way to pop queendom, Madonna attended which university? ‘Most would have been monumentally crestfallen to have queendom stolen away from them,’ he said. queenless adjective He became the first queenless king in all of history! Example sentencesExamples This was a more dramatic example, as in a queenless middlegame White played b4-b5 (without a- or c-pawns) while Black had pawns on a6 and c6. In the queenless ant S. peetersi, dyadic aggressions lead to a hierarchy, and only alpha mates (with one foreign male) and lays eggs. Bareev opts to squeeze Shirov in the minimalist queenless middlegame arising from a Queen's Gambit Accepted - the position type seen in the memorable game 4 of the recent Kramnik-Kasparov match - where Bareev was a Kramnik second. Japanese queenless ants, Pristomyrmex pungens, have been observed defending their nests, food resources, and recruitment trails against other conspecific colony members. queenlike adjective She sat in queen-like fashion on the kitchen stool, looking faintly disapproving and intent on examining her newly painted nails. Example sentencesExamples Gillot in Colerique, with sharp movements and hot temper, was in her elements and led the company on to the finale with a queen-like authority. It shows the Queen with orb and sceptre as emblems of her rule appearing queen-like rather than as an individualised subject. This will give an indication of how queen-like the anarchistic worker-laid eggs are, because the viability of worker-laid and queen-laid eggs are similar, so any differences in persistence will be the result of egg removal. Ovaries were assigned categorical scores from zero (no visible oocyte development, filamentous) to three (fully developed, queen-like ovaries). queenship noun ˈkwiːnʃɪpˈkwinˌʃɪp But the chess queen's fascinating history calls for a more nuanced understanding of queenship, if such an institution existed, of the interaction of symbol and meaning and of the complex interplay of historical change. Example sentencesExamples That the queenship is vacant, that Esther meets the standards for being elected, is indeed taken to the court, and pleases the king, are but a few of the many coincidences that lead to the salvation of the Jews. Caesar receives Antony's schoolmaster, sent with terms for peace: continuing queenship for Cleopatra, and a private life in either Alexandria or Athens for Antony. Under physical competition for queenship, larger individuals should often be able to physically dominate others. Having edited two notable collections on kingship and queenship, Anne Duggan has now logically turned her attention towards the next rank down in the hierarchy. queenhood noun Origin Old English cwēn, of Germanic origin; related to quean. The Old English spelling of queen was cwēn. This originally meant ‘a wife’, specifically that of a king or some other important man. Related to cwēn was Old English cwene ‘woman’, which became the archaic quean, ‘a bold or impudent woman’, sometimes encountered in Shakespeare's work. In the 16th and 17th centuries it was also a term for a prostitute. Because the two words came to be pronounced in the same way the derogatory sense dropped out of use as too confusing. The sense of queen ‘an effeminate gay man’ dates from the beginning of the 20th century. Rhymes Aberdeen, Amin, aquamarine, baleen, bean, been, beguine, Benin, between, canteen, careen, Claudine, clean, contravene, convene, cuisine, dean, Dene, e'en, eighteen, fascine, fedayeen, fifteen, figurine, foreseen, fourteen, Francine, gean, gene, glean, gombeen, green, Greene, Halloween, intervene, Janine, Jean, Jeannine, Jolene, Kean, keen, Keene, Ladin, langoustine, latrine, lean, limousine, machine, Maclean, magazine, Malines, margarine, marine, Mascarene, Massine, Maxine, mean, Medellín, mesne, mien, Moline, moreen, mujahedin, Nadine, nankeen, Nazarene, Nene, nineteen, nougatine, obscene, palanquin, peen, poteen, preen, quean, Rabin, Racine, ramin, ravine, routine, Sabine, saltine, sardine, sarin, sateen, scene, screen, seen, serene, seventeen, shagreen, shebeen, sheen, sixteen, spleen, spring-clean, squireen, Steen, submarine, supervene, tambourine, tangerine, teen, terrine, thirteen, transmarine, treen, tureen, Tyrrhene, ultramarine, umpteen, velveteen, wean, ween, Wheen, yean Queen² proper nounkwiːn A British rock group featuring vocalist Freddie Mercury (1946–91). Queen were known for their extravagant, almost operatic brand of rock, as exemplified by the hugely successful ‘Bohemian Rhapsody’ (1975). noun.1 name.1 Definition of queen in US English: queen nounkwinkwēn 1The female ruler of an independent state, especially one who inherits the position by right of birth. 女王；女酋长；女首领 Example sentencesExamples Children also took part in period dances including the lively farandole from Provence and the slower pavan, both dating back to the time of Tudor kings and queens. Earlier, the queen and Prince Philip watched a golden jubilee parade in Windsor and started a nationwide jubilee music party during a visit to Slough. And for those who watched the funeral of the Princess of Wales, it was when Elton John sang that the queen was most moved. In some ways, she was better poised, by temperament, to be a royal than the queen, which is a funny thing when you kind of think about it. Only 30% favour having a king or queen who inherits the position for life. This was once the place of royal summer retreat, and there is a wealth of stories about the kings, queens, princes and princesses who spent time here. The broadcaster's new 24-part series on television series on kings and queens, Monarchy, begins tomorrow night on Channel Four and will continue for the next four years. She became a queen and gave birth to a future queen, and in the process became beloved by the British people. Visitors to Windsor Castle are to be given a glimpse of the drawings, books and documents collected by the Stuart kings and queens during their 100-year reign. After all, if a woman who marries a sovereign king becomes a queen consort, why shouldn't a man who marries a sovereign queen become a king consort? In the 1840s, the Ardverikie Estate was leased by the Duke of Abercorn, a senior aide to Prince Albert, the queen's husband. It examines two powerful queens, how they used their power differently and how they suffered in love; two women imprisoned by the powerful roles they inhabit. Zapatero is now pushing a proposal that would allow Spanish princesses to become queens if they are the firstborn. Anne was a queen without a king, even though she had a spouse, who played the public but informal role of a loyal and obedient subject. Here, as we have seen, their ruler was the pro-Roman queen, Cartimandua whose seat may have been at Stanwick, near Scotch Corner. Elizabeth Bowes Lyon was mother to a queen, wife to a king, sister-in-law to another king. Not surprisingly, England's first female rulers, the sixteenth-century Tudor queens Mary I and Elizabeth I, assumed power as single women. The English and French monarchs were kings and queens of the land and not the people. The basic thing for a sovereign king or a queen of a country is service to the people. Of course, this in no way undermines the contributions of other historical British queens and queen consorts. Synonyms monarch, sovereign, head of state, ruler, crown, her majesty 1.1 A king's wife. Example sentencesExamples What she obviously meant was that the new queen became the favourite wife of the emperor. While Elliott remains a staunch supporter of King Louis XVI and his queen, Marie Antoinette, the Duke sides with the anti-monarchists. Some of his prophecies appeared to be fulfilled, and his fame became so widespread that he was invited to the court of Catherine de Medicis, queen consort of Henry II of France, where he cast the horoscopes of her children. Convention has it that when the king comes to the throne, his wife then becomes queen. The impressive scale of this escort was designed to convey an unmistakable message about the status and importance of those who were to be accompanied, namely the queen consort of the King of Scotland and England and the royal children. His tolerance to other religions perhaps came from his many queens including his principle wife who was a Hindu. The central room contains the epitaphs of the emperor Humayun and his queen, and is crowned by great double dome. A boom period followed the successful televising of the coronation of George VI and his queen consort on 12 May 1937. King Gyanendra, who ascended the throne June 4, declared his wife, Princess Komal, the queen of Nepal the same day. The king, queen and prince also sent messages of condolence. The drama tells the story of a king who takes a second wife because his Chinese queen is unable to bear children. Born in 1542, she married the French Dauphin in 1558 and became the queen consort a year later. He immediately wrote a note to his wife, the queen. King Norodom Sihanouk and his queen always enjoy the annual ceremony and the prime minister, other leaders and thousands of ordinary people also participate in the event. Salomon, the eldest, arrived first, around 1607, and his earliest works were for the queen consort, Anne of Denmark. The Medallion was simply a memento with pictures of the king and queen and inscription ‘Royal Tour 1947.’ Prince Gyanendra contradicted officials who suggested that Crown Prince Dipendra killed King Birendra, the queen and six other royals in a dispute. According to the scandalmongers, the then Prince of Wales had inherited these emeralds from Alexandra for the purpose of passing them down to his future wife, the next queen of England. The Pavillion de La Bouexiere, as it was called in the eighteenth century, attracted noted celebrities such as Louis XV's queen consort, Marie Leszczynska. Before departing, the king directed that his queen consort should follow him to London within about twenty days. Synonyms monarch, sovereign, head of state, ruler, crown, her majesty 1.2 A woman or thing regarded as excellent or outstanding of its kind. （某领域的）王后；精华；出类拔萃者 the queen of romance novelists Venice: Queen of the Adriatic Example sentencesExamples The HS748, the queen of the skies, has provided outstanding service to the Air Force and the nation in the past 37 years. Tanya had always been the fashion queen and it was because of that that her friends always deferred to her on issues of style. The production team and crew under the direction of the queen of panto in Ballylinan Bernie Dunne are once again looking forward to yet another busy run. In the studio the Eastenders cast will get makeovers from fashion queens Trinny and Susannah as part of a What Not To Wear special. Economics is often described as the queen of the social sciences. For the queen of fashion herself, I will make sure my party starts early enough so that she can drop by for her customary 10 minutes before going off to bed at 10 pm. Until recently, botanists have met with similar impenetrability when asking these questions about orchids, the glamour queens of the plant kingdom. This guy had more fashion sense than the queen of fashion. But most importantly, Kathie remains the undisputed queen of the council chamber. Former classical fashion queens such as Audrey Hepburn and Jackie Kennedy had a faithful following in the city. Also, since you've been called the queen of fantasy romance, i could use any pointers you have! Sunday was family day and the best-dressed lady was selected from the many queens of fashion that paraded the latest styles throughout the course. Long and thin or fat and tubular, pasta is the queen of comfort foods this winter. Mary Quant, undoubtedly fashion queen of the decade, rose to fame in 1966. And if that doesn't make me the official queen of Google, nothing will. Hillary Luigio was a sporty half-Italian girl who was the queen of gossip. The world famous queen of fashion, Vivienne Westwood, holding her first ever fashion show in Shanghai! For once, Kerry's queens of fashion were upstaged by a queen from another land - but they didn't seem to mind. We are throwing down the gauntlet: Who is the next queen of Wife Swap? The lifelong rivalry of cosmetics queens Elizabeth Arden and Helena Rubinstein makes for riveting reading. Synonyms doyenne, star, leading light, celebrity, big name, superstar, top dog, queen bee, mistress, prima donna, idol, heroine, favourite, darling 1.3 A woman or girl chosen to hold the most important position in a festival or event. （节日或活动中）当选要职的女子 football stars and homecoming queens Example sentencesExamples The first carnival event will be the appointment of the carnival royalty, including carnival queen, princess and prince, in the town hall on April 30. Sunday will also see the traditional carnival parade - a procession through the town centre including brass, samba and pipe bands, floats, walking groups in fancy dress and carnival queens. Yet the former beauty queen has worked her way to the fringes of the British establishment. And carnival queens will not be allowed to sit on cars. The principal was about to announce homecoming king, queen, prince, and princess. A host of carnival queens from the region clutched their brollies and smiled at onlookers as they led the procession down Drake Street. From the 1920s until the start of WWII a carnival queen was plucked annually from the town's prettiest girls and given a short spell in the limelight. It's one of those letter jackets with the shiny leather sleeves, the kind real athletes wear while strolling college campuses, homecoming queens on their arms. Two vintage cars, owned by Mr Mchugh, carried the carnival queen and the mayor. Last Friday, however, the boys captured the warrior queen of the girls. All significant events where I grew up involve people carted around town by tractor, including the carnival queens and carol singers. Prestwich's own carnival queens will be selling the programmes outside the supermarket each Saturday and Sunday leading up to the big day itself. Jill's post about this, and her analogy to the unpopular girl winning homecoming queen, made me want to go and vote. Leanne has had her heart set on becoming the carnival queen for a number of years and was really delighted. Teenage girls were crowned queen of the potato festival. In the afternoon before the procession, carnival queens from all over the county will take part in a contest to choose the Queen of Queens. Another addition this year will be a festival queen and two princesses chosen from local girls. Prospective carnival queens can either fill out an application form on the night of the competition or ring this number for one in advance. The evening continued with Killybegs Festival Carnival led by the festival queen. And carnival queens from Tiptree, Burnham, Braintree, Witham and Wickford were given the celebrity treatment, riding in style in the back of luxury stretch limos. 1.4the Queendated (in the UK) the national anthem when there is a female sovereign. 〈旧〉（英国女王在位时的）国歌 1.5informal A man's wife or girlfriend. 〈非正式〉爱妻；心上人；女朋友 Synonyms girlfriend, girl, sweetheart, partner, significant other, inamorata, fiancée 2The most powerful chess piece that each player has, able to move any number of unobstructed squares in any direction along a rank, file, or diagonal on which it stands. （国际象棋中的）后 Example sentencesExamples On move 20, the two players liquidated their queens and after swapping pieces in the next 10 moves, they were almost in a balanced position. Black must find a way to involve some more pieces beyond the queen and rook on c8. After some deliberation, he moved his queen diagonally across the board, capturing Adam's remaining knight. Miss Watson left her queen en prise against Miss Gooding, who failed to notice and eventually lost. With white he quickly swung his queen over to the kingside and proceeded to advance his pawns. ‘In chess, when a queen is beleaguered, it is sometimes necessary to sacrifice a knight to save the game,’ he told the media. As far as movement, he's as versatile as the queen piece on a chess board. In top tournaments, in which electronic boards are used, each set of pieces has an extra queen for each side. I moved my queen to mid-board, hoping to establish an offensive. Both players sacrificed their queens early, but Kasparov deliberated over a simple sacrifice exchange later in the match, which baffled analysts. Thus, in the context of a chess game, moving your queen to a square adjacent to your opponent's king counts as a check. After the queens came off on move 40, Korchnoi was left with 6 pawns to Galliamova's knight and 2 soldiers. It was also obvious that Kasparov would soon be able to make a new queen, giving him an overwhelming material advantage. David moved his queen left diagonally two spaces. Anand sacrificed his queen on move 22, getting a rook and knight in return. In this position the queen in the corner is a problem, so I planned 2.b3 to bring it into play. His king was caught in a mating net and to avoid it he would have lost his queen, so he resigned after 29 moves. Aware that I had already won a small victory by being the last standing player, I made a bold move with my queen. Garry was, however, able to save himself by sacrificing his queen for rook, knight and pawn, plus an attack. His point is that the queen's position on h6 gives white the additional annoying possibility of 12.Nh4! 3A playing card bearing a representation of a queen, normally ranking next below a king and above a jack. （牌戏中的）王后（牌），Q（牌） Example sentencesExamples Note that all the queens, including diamonds, also carry their normal 3 points, which cannot be annulled. It consists of ace, king, queen, jack, ten, all in the same suit. Another variation is to count face cards as numbers; jacks have a value of eleven, queens twelve, and kings thirteen. In this game kings, queens and jacks are worth half a point each, and the numeral cards are worth their face value. The deck is prepared by first removing the kings, queens, and jacks, and then separating the colors, leaving you with two 20-card decks. The object is to take tricks containing aces, 10s, kings, queens and jacks. A Kirby is often used when a player has many trumps, or cards above the value of queens (kings and Aces). If the queen of spades is dealt face down, then there is no chance of the hand being reset. A combination consisting of a king and a queen of each suit is sometimes known as a roundhouse. Anyone who holds the ace, king, queen, jack or ten of hearts takes all the chips from that space. The dealer flops an ace, queen and jack - two of them spades. Players may agree to value the jacks, queens, kings and aces at ten points each; this makes the count faster. Whoever receives the ace is the first dealer; the player with the king sits to that player's left, then the queen and so on down, in clockwise order. The face cards - the jack, queen and king - and the joker each have a different kind of dog painted on them. You should generally try to avoid playing aces, kings, queens and jacks except when capturing or building with them. The ace, king, queen, jack and ten of each suit are worth one point each, so that the pack contains 20 points in all. He laid down an ace, a king, a queen, a jack and a ten. To this day, packs of Italian playing-cards do not have queens - nor do packs in Spain, Germany and Switzerland (among others). The queen of clubs belongs for all purposes to the trump suit, not to the club suit. There are no trumps at the start, but if the side winning a trick hold the king and queen of a suit, they can make that suit trumps. 4Entomology A reproductive female in a colony of social ants, bees, wasps, etc. 〔昆〕蚁后，蜂后 Example sentencesExamples The queen and half of the bees fly off to begin a new hive, and the remaining bees raise a new queen and continue reproducing. Should a colony containing more than one queen be separated into subunits, any subunit containing a queen can become independent over time. A major distinction in the social organization of ant societies is the number of queens that inhabit a colony. Mound densities were 33 percent less in sites with the parasitic ant, and the number of fire ant queens was 47 percent less in parasitized colonies. There seems to be the implicit assumption that queens of social insects have little or no cost of reproduction because they are amply supplied with resources by their workers. But in an unusual role reversal, paper wasp queens beg their young for a meal. Therefore, it is possible that Africanized drones may have hybridized with European queens, which established colonies at WWR as early as 1991. We present data on reproductive partitioning among queens in the ant Leptothorax rugatulus with special emphasis on relatedness and body size. As a result, the progeny of a single queen (a normal bee colony) make up a genetically diverse population. In the ant Leptothorax albipennis, the queen is carried during colony emigration. Among a species known as the little fire ant, both queens and males reproduce asexually, a new study has found. To alleviate this problem, some people care for wasp queens in winter. The worker bees die at the end of summer and the impregnated queen starts a new colony when warm weather returns. Colonies of this species typically contain multiple queens, and most reproductive individuals mate within their parental nest without dispersing. Nevertheless, these queens also compete for reproductive shares within a colony of limited resources. Mole-rats are the only known mammals to live in large colonies presided over by a queen (like ants and termites). However, clear evidence of nepotism in the rearing of queens in social insects is limited and controversial. Eusocial insect colonies are frequently headed by multiple reproductive queens. Although queens heading neighboring colonies are not close relatives, fixation indices show significant genetic differentiation among aggregation sites. This potent fungus, which also kills termites, doesn't harm bees or affect their queen's production. 5An adult female cat that has not been spayed. 母猫 Example sentencesExamples Mousers left their prey, elder toms left their warm places by the fire, kittens left their meals, queens grabbed a kitten from their nest, and they all ran to the woods. Synonyms cat, domestic cat, wild cat, alley cat, kitten 6informal A homosexual man, especially one regarded as ostentatiously effeminate. 〈非正式〉（尤指脂粉气的）同性恋男子 Synonyms homosexual man, homosexual, gay verbkwinkwēn [with object] 1queen it over(of a woman) behave in an unpleasantly superior way toward (someone). （女人）对…摆架子，对…专横跋扈 Example sentencesExamples In scene one, Edie, the make-believe cheerleader, queens it over bashful high-school boy Tom. Her in-laws irked her, and she tried to queen it over them, with results resembling the outcome likely to have occurred if Isabella of Castile had issued edicts in a church hall on bingo night. Formerly the Queen of the Groucho Club, she now spends more time queening it over Brighton where she lives. I've no element of self-loathing but I do realise that part of my success is just me showing off, and wanting to queen it over other people, to be frank with you. 2Chess Convert (a pawn) into a queen when it reaches the opponent's back rank on the board. 〔棋〕使（兵）变后 Example sentencesExamples A Slav drawn in 22 moves after a short burst of excitement where Kramnik gave up his queen, then queened a pawn to re-establish material equality. The Black pawn could only be stopped from queening by allowing a drawn king and pawn endgame. Winning one more pawn, Saravanan never looked back and closed in on his opponent in a rook-bishop-knight ending by queening his pawn. But it was still enough, and as both players queened a pawn, it was Bareev who was first to check. Both players queened a pawn after 56 moves, but Korchnoi managed to check and grab the knight leaving him up 2 passed pawns, and Galliamova resigned after 64 moves. Origin Old English cwēn, of Germanic origin; related to quean.
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