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Quick definitions from WordNet (queen)

▸ noun:  the only fertile female in a colony of social insects such as bees and ants and termites; its function is to lay eggs
▸ noun:  especially large and only member of a colony of naked mole rats to bear offspring sired by only a few males
▸ noun:  (chess) the most powerful piece
▸ noun:  one of four face cards in a deck bearing a picture of a queen
▸ noun:  a female sovereign ruler
▸ noun:  the wife or widow of a king
▸ noun:  something personified as a woman who is considered the best or most important of her kind ("Paris is the queen of cities")
▸ noun:  female cat
▸ noun:  a competitor who holds a preeminent position
▸ noun:  offensive terms for an openly homosexual man
▸ verb:  promote to a queen, as of a pawn in chess
▸ verb:  become a queen ("Her pawn queened")
▸ name:  A female given name (rare: 1 in 11111 females; popularity rank in the U.S.: #923)
▸ name:  A surname (common: 1 in 14285 families; popularity rank in the U.S.: #1814)

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