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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 |
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A female sovereign ruler |
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The wife or widow of a king |
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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 |
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A competitor who holds a preeminent position |
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Offensive term for an openly homosexual man |
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One of four face cards in a deck bearing a picture of a queen |
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(chess) the most powerful piece |
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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 |
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Female cat |
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Promote to a queen, as of a pawn in chess |
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Become a queen Her pawn queened |