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queen
CEFRA2
/kwiːn/
noun
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In plain English
- 01
noun
A female ruler of a country.
- 02
noun
The most powerful chess piece.
Examples
In the palace live the king and the queen.
She was crowned queen at the age of fifteen.
At a glance
Sits at A2 on the CEFR scale
- Senses
- 5
- Parts of speech
- 1
- Citations
- 5
- Synonyms
- 5
Also pronounced
- [kʰw̥iːn]
Deep Dive
noun
Extra meaningsA female monarch.
A woman whose pre-eminence, power, or forcefulness is comparable to that of a queen., The Virgin Mary (especially in formulations such as Queen of Heaven, Queen of Glory).
The wife, consort, or widow of a king.
More examples
In contextThe queen stood beside the king.
My mother was queen of the St. Patrick's Day parade when she was 19.
The divorced king was looking for a new queen.
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Origin
noun
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; fem...