Inside the Universes

Words with a similar base: queen, queen_mole_rat, queen_regnant

'queen'

[queen.n.01] as in: the only fertile female in a colony of social insects such as bees and ants and termites; its function is to lay eggs

'queen'

[queen.n.02] as in: a female sovereign ruler

'queen'

[queen.n.03] as in: the wife or widow of a king

'queen'

[queen.n.04] as in: something personified as a woman who is considered the best or most important of her kind

Examples:
Paris is the queen of cities
the queen of ocean liners

'queen'

[king.n.02] as in: a competitor who holds a preeminent position

'queen'

[fagot.n.01] as in: offensive term for an openly homosexual man

'queen'

[queen.n.07] as in: one of four face cards in a deck bearing a picture of a queen

'queen'

[queen.n.08] as in: (chess) the most powerful piece

'queen'

[queen.n.09] as in: 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

'queen'

[tabby.n.02] as in: female cat

'queen'

[queen.v.01] as in: promote to a queen, as of a pawn in chess

'queen'

[queen.v.02] as in: become a queen

Examples:
her pawn queened

Origins

					queen (English)
└── queen (Middle English (1100-1500))