queen

queen is a 5-letter English word with 21 senses as noun, intransitive verb, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: The wife of a king. Face value is 14 in Scrabble and 16 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

5 letters · Scrabble 14 · Words With Friends 16 · 21 senses

Definitions

1. noun. The wife of a king.
2. noun. A woman who is the sovereign of a kingdom; a female monarch; as, Elizabeth, queen of England; Mary, queen of Scots.
3. noun. A woman eminent in power or attractions; the highest of her kind; as, a queen in society; -- also used figuratively of cities, countries, etc.
4. noun. The fertile, or fully developed, female of social bees, ants, and termites.
5. noun. The most powerful, and except the king the most important, piece in a set of chessmen.
6. noun. A playing card bearing the picture of a queen; as, the queen of spades.
7. noun. A male homosexual, esp. one who is effeminate or dresses in women's clothing.
8. intransitive verb. To act the part of a queen.
9. intransitive verb. To make a queen (or other piece, at the player's discretion) of by moving it to the eighth row; as, to queen a pawn.
10. noun. female cat

    Synonyms: tabby

11. noun. the only fertile female in a colony of social insects such as bees and ants and termites; its function is to lay eggs
12. noun. an especially large mole rat and the only member of a colony of naked mole rats to bear offspring which are sired by only a few males
13. noun. (chess) the most powerful piece
14. noun. one of four face cards in a deck bearing a picture of a queen
15. noun. offensive term for an openly homosexual man

    Synonyms: fag, faggot, fagot, fairy, nance, pansy, poof, poove, pouf, queer

16. noun. a competitor who holds a preeminent position

    Synonyms: king

17. noun. a female sovereign ruler
18. noun. the wife or widow of a king
19. noun. something personified as a woman who is considered the best or most important of her kind

    "Paris is the queen of cities"

    "the queen of ocean liners"

20. verb. become a queen

    "her pawn queened"

21. verb. promote to a queen, as of a pawn in chess

Synonyms

tabby, fag, faggot, fagot, fairy, nance, pansy, poof, poove, pouf, queer, king

Common word forms

queens, queened, queenly, queening, queenless

Words from these letters

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