queen

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

• noun The wife or widow of a king.
• noun A woman sovereign.
• noun A woman considered preeminent in a particular field.
• noun A woman chosen as the winner of a contest or the honorary head of an event.
• noun Something having eminence or supremacy in a given domain and personified as a woman.
• noun The most powerful chess piece, able to move in any direction over any number of empty squares in a straight line.
• noun A playing card bearing the figure of a queen, ranking above the jack and below the king.
• noun The sole reproductive female, or one of several such females, in a colony of eusocial insects, such as bees, wasps, ants, or termites.
• noun The reproductive female in a colony of naked mole rats.
• noun A mature female cat, especially one kept for breeding purposes.
• noun Offensive Slang Used as a disparaging term for a gay man.
• noun A queen-size bed.
• intransitive verb To make (a woman) a queen.
• intransitive verb Games To raise (a pawn) to queen in chess.
• intransitive verb To become a queen in chess.
• idiom (queen it) To act like a queen; domineer.

from The Century Dictionary.

• To play the queen; act the part or character of a queen; domineer: with an indefinite it.
• In chess, to make a queen of: said of a pawn on its reaching the eighth square.
• In apiculture, to supply with a queen; introduce a queen to: said of a colony of bees.
• noun Same as queen-wasp.
• noun A female eat. In modern catteries the name is given only to female cats used for careful and scientific breeding. Also called queen-cat.
• noun The female of a termite or white ant. See king, 6.
• noun The consort of a king.
• noun A woman who is the sovereign of a realm; a female sovereign.
• noun Figuratively, a woman who is chief or preeminent among others; one who presides: as, queen of beauty; queen of the May (see Mayqueen).
• noun Hence, anything personified as chief or greatest, when considered as possessing female attributes.
• noun In entomology, a queen bee or queen ant.
• noun A playing-card on which a queen is depicted.
• noun In chess, the piece which is by far the most powerful of all for attack. See chess. Abbreviated Q.
• noun A variety of roofing-slate, measuring 3 feet long and 2 feet wide. Compare duchess, 2.
• noun Among Roman Catholics, a title given to the Virgin Mary.
• noun Same as quin.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

• intransitive verb (Chess.) To make a queen (or other piece, at the player's discretion) of by moving it to the eighth row.
• intransitive verb To act the part of a queen.
• noun The wife of a king.
• noun A woman who is the sovereign of a kingdom; a female monarch
• noun A woman eminent in power or attractions; the highest of her kind
• noun The fertile, or fully developed, female of social bees, ants, and termites.
• noun (Chess) The most powerful, and except the king the most important, piece in a set of chessmen.
• noun A playing card bearing the picture of a queen.
• noun A kind of apple; a queening.
• noun (Zoöl.) a female bee, especially the female of the honeybee. See Honeybee.
• noun (Zoöl.) a very large West Indian cameo conch (Cassis cameo). It is much used for making cameos.
• noun the wife of a reigning king.
• noun the widow of a king.
• noun formerly a revenue of the queen consort of England, arising from gifts, fines, etc.