queen
/kwiːn/
Word Rarity
Uncommon
Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.86 in modern English
14
Scrabble Score
5
Letters
1
Syllables
4
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Meaning
noun
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A woman whose pre-eminence, power, or forcefulness is comparable to that of a queen.
noun
A woman whose pre-eminence, power, or forcefulness is comparable to that of a queen.
noun
A woman whose pre-eminence, power, or forcefulness is comparable to that of a queen.
noun
A woman whose pre-eminence, power, or forcefulness is comparable to that of a queen.
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Something regarded as the greatest of its kind or as having pre-eminence or power comparable to that of a queen over a given area.
Example Sentences
- "The divorced king was looking for a new queen."
- "The king doth keepe his Reuels here to night. Take heede the Queene come not within his ſight."
- "But our mercifull Queene Elizabeth hath not burned the popiſh prieſtes on the alters where they committed idolatrie in ſaying of Maſſe, and worſhipped a piece of breade for the bodie of Chriſte (which ſhee might haue done if ſhee would) and yet you count not her for a godly and mercifull Queene."
- "In 1952, at the last accession, there were only eight members of the new entity taking shape in the outline of the British Empire. The Queen was the head of state in seven of them, and she was proclaimed Head of the Commonwealth to accommodate India’s lone status as a republic."
- "[…] and yet I will not ſay but amongſt duſt there is Pearle found, and in hard rockes Dyamonds of great value, and ſo amongſt many women there are ſome good, as that gracious and glorious Queene of all woman kinde the Virgin Mary the mother of al bliſſe, what wun her honour, but an humble minde and her paines and loue vnto our Sauiour Chriſt."
- "Always look after that girl, doc. She's a queen!"
Etymology
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”). Cognate with Scots queen, wheen (“queen”), Old Saxon quān ("wife"; > Middle Low German quene (“elderly woman”)), Dutch kween (“woman past child-bearing age”), Swedish kvinna (“woman”), Norwegian Bokmål and Norwegian Nynorsk kvinne (“woman”), Danish kvinde (“woman”), Icelandic kvon (“wife”), Gothic 𐌵𐌴𐌽𐍃 (qēns, “wife”), Norwegian dialectal kvån (“wife”). Related to and possibly merged with and/or absorbed some senses of English quean, from Middle English quene, from Old English cwene (“woman; female serf, quean”), see quean. Generally eclipsed non-native Middle English regina (“queen”), borrowed from Latin rēgīna (“queen”) (see Modern English Regina). Doublet of quean and gyne. In reference to insects, by analogy with the obsolete term king, which it took over from starting in the 1600s, when they were discovered to be female.
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