Definition of: queen

(kwēn) noun
1. The wife of a king.
2. A female sovereign or monarch.
3. A woman preeminent in a given sphere.
4. The most powerful piece in chess, capable of moving any number of squares in a straight line.
5. A playing card bearing a conventional picture of a queen in her robes.
6. Entomol. The single fully developed female in a colony of social insects, as bees, ants, etc.: distinguished from workers, soldiers, and unproductive females.
—v.t.
1. To make a queen of.
2. In chess, to make a queen of (a pawn) by moving it to the eighth row.
—v.i.
3. To reign as or play the part of a queen: usually with it. [OE cwen woman, queen]