queen

Signification

Noun

1. The wife, consort, or widow of a king.
2. A female monarch.
3. A woman whose pre-eminence, power, or forcefulness is comparable to that of a queen.
4. A woman whose pre-eminence, power, or forcefulness is comparable to that of a queen.
5. A woman whose pre-eminence, power, or forcefulness is comparable to that of a queen.
6. (slang) A woman whose pre-eminence, power, or forcefulness is comparable to that of a queen.
7. Something regarded as the greatest of its kind or as having pre-eminence or power comparable to that of a queen over a given area.
8. Referring to one of several items used in tabletop games:
9. Referring to one of several items used in tabletop games:
10. Referring to one of several items used in tabletop games:
11. A reproductive female insect in a hive, such as an ant, bee, termite or wasp.
12. (obsolete) A type of flatfish, specifically the lemon sole.
13. A queen apple.
14. A queen scallop.
15. (obsolete) Ellipsis of queen post.
16. A type of large roofing slate.
17. (slang) A homosexual man, especially one regarded as effeminate.
18. An adult female cat capable of breeding.
19. Ellipsis of queen olive.
20. (slang) Ellipsis of drag queen.
21. Pertaining to a queen-size bed or queen-size bedding.
22. A monarch butterfly (Danaus spp., especially Danaus gilippus).

Verb

1. (obsolete) To act the part of a queen; to behave imperiously; to queen it.
2. To make a queen or (figuratively) to give the status of a queen.
3. To promote a pawn to a queen.
4. To be the queen bee of a colony.
5. To provide with a new queen bee.
6. (slang) To sit on a person’s face to receive oral sex, typically while straddling the person’s head.

Prononcé comme (IPA)

/kwiːn/

Étymologie

From Middle English quene, queen, cwen, from Old English cwēn (“queen”), from Proto-West Germanic *kwāni, from Proto-Germanic *kwēniz (“woman”), from Proto-Indo-European *gʷénh₂s (“woman”).
Cognate with Scots queen, wheen (“queen”), Old Saxon quān ("wife"; > Middle Low German quene (“elderly woman”)), Dutch kween (“woman past child-bearing age”), Swedish kvinna (“woman”), Norwegian kvinne (“woman”), Danish kvinde (“woman”), Icelandic kvon (“wife”), Gothic 𐌵𐌴𐌽𐍃 (qēns, “wife”), Norwegian dialectal kvån (“wife”). Related to and possibly merged with and/or absorbed some senses of English quean, from Middle English quene, from Old English cwene (“woman; female serf, quean”), see quean. Generally eclipsed non-native Middle English regina (“queen”), borrowed from Latin rēgīna (“queen”) (see Modern English regina). Doublet of quean and gyne.