queen

a female sovereign ruler

something personified as a woman who is considered the best or most important of her kind

“Paris is the queen of cities”

the only fertile female in a colony of social insects such as bees and ants and termites; its function is to lay eggs

the wife or widow of a king

female cat

offensive term for a homosexual man

a competitor who holds a preeminent position

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

become a queen

“her pawn queened”

the most powerful piece

one of four face cards in a deck bearing a picture of a queen

promote to a queen, as of a pawn in chess