queening

queen[ 'kwi:ni? ]

• n.
  • the only fertile female in a colony of social insects such as bees and ants and termites; its function is to lay eggs
  • a female sovereign ruler

    同义词：queen regnantfemale monarch

  • the wife or widow of a king
  • 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"

  • a competitor who holds a preeminent position

    同义词：kingworld-beater

  • offensive terms for an openly homosexual man

    同义词：fagotfaggotfagfairynancepansyqueerpoofpoovepouf

  • one of four face cards in a deck bearing a picture of a queen
  • (chess) the most powerful piece
  • 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

    同义词：queen mole rat

  • female cat

    同义词：tabby

• v.
  • promote to a queen, as of a pawn in chess
  • become a queen

    "her pawn queened"