queen

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

a female sovereign ruler

the wife or widow of a king

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"

a competitor who holds a preeminent position

offensive term for an openly homosexual man

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

(chess) the most powerful piece

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

female cat

promote to a queen, as of a pawn in chess

become a queen; "her pawn queened"