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queen
Definition:
(nou) the only fertile female in a colony of social insects such as bees and ants and termites; its function is to lay eggs (nou) a female sovereign ruler (nou) the wife or widow of a king (nou) something personified as a woman who is considered the best or most important of her kind (nou) a competitor who holds a preeminent position (nou) offensive term for an openly homosexual man (nou) one of four face cards in a deck bearing a picture of a queen (nou) the most powerful piece (nou) 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 (nou) female cat
Phonetic Transcription:
kwiːn
Examples:
The mother of the king is the queen.
The king and queen were in the utmost peril.
The king had the queen abandoned in the forest.
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