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the only fertile female in a colony of social insects such as bees and ants and termites; its function is to lay eggs especially large and only member of a colony of naked mole rats to bear offspring sired by only a few males (chess) the most powerful piece one of four face cards in a deck bearing a picture of a queen a female sovereign ruler 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" become a queen; "her pawn queened" promote to a queen, as of a pawn in chess female cat a competitor who holds a preeminent position offensive terms for an openly homosexual man |
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