Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner's English Dictionary - queen

(queens) Frequency: The word is one of the 1500 most common words in English. 1. A queen is a woman who rules a country as its monarch. ...Queen Victoria... She met the Queen last week. N-TITLE; N-COUNT: oft the N 2. A queen is a woman who is married to a king. The king and queen had fled. N-TITLE; N-COUNT: oft the N 3. If you refer to a woman as the queen of a particular activity, you mean that she is well-known for being very good at it. ...the queen of crime writing. N-COUNT: with supp, N of n, n N see also beauty queen 4. In chess, the queen is the most powerful piece. It can be moved in any direction. N-COUNT 5. A queen is a playing card with a picture of a queen on it. ...the queen of spades. N-COUNT: oft the N of n 6. A queen or a queen bee is a large female bee which can lay eggs. N-COUNT