Meaning

6 senses
  1. (transitive)To make a queen or (figuratively) to give the status of a queen.

  2. To promote a pawn to a queen.

    провести́ в ферзи́provestí v ferzí

    promote to a queen, as of a pawn in chess

  3. To be the queen bee of a colony.

  4. To provide with a new queen bee.

  5. (slang, transitive, usually)To sit on a person’s face to receive oral sex, typically while straddling the person’s head.

  6. (intransitive, obsolete)To act the part of a queen; to behave imperiously; to queen it.

    become a queen

Examples

462 sentences
  1. Mary is a drama queen.

    Мері істеричка. — deniko

    deMaria ist eine Dramaqueen. — brauchinet

  2. The queen stood beside the king.

    Королева стояла коло короля. — aandrusiak

    ruКоролева стояла возле короля. — odexed

    deDie Königin stand neben dem König. — Hans_Adler

  3. Tom treated Mary like a queen.

    ruТом обращался с Мэри как с королевой. — Wezel

    deTom behandelte Maria wie eine Königin. — Pfirsichbaeumchen

  4. I remember that I met the queen.

    ruЯ помню, что я встретился с королевой. — afyodor

  5. This magazine has a picture of the queen.

    deAuf dieser Zeitschrift ist ein Bild der Königin. — Pfirsichbaeumchen

Translations

6 languages
Русский
By meaning 1
chess: to convert a pawn into a queen:

Origin

From Middle English quene, queen, cwen, from Old English cwēn (“queen”), from Proto-West G

From Middle English quene, queen, cwen, from Old English cwēn (“queen”), from Proto-West Germanic *kwāni, from Proto-Germanic *kwēniz (“wife, woman”), from Proto-Indo-European *gʷénh₂s (“woman”).

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Forms

queens, queening, queened, queened
Base formqueen · to queen
3rd person singularqueens
Present participlequeening
Past simplequeened
Past participlequeened

regular · Lesson

Present simpleLesson

I, you, we, theyqueen
he, she, itqueens

Past simpleLesson

all personsqueened

Present perfectLesson

I, you, we, theyhave queened
he, she, ithas queened

Future simple (will)Lesson

all personswill queen

Phrasal verbs

2 phrasal verbs

Synonyms

2 synonyms
kingA1face-sit

Antonyms

1 antonyms

Word family

6 related words

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
queen — meaning, examples, forms, synonyms | Krumeto