<p><strong>Noun</strong></p><ul><li>a female sovereign or monarch</li><li>the wife or consort of a king</li><li>a woman, or something personified as a woman, that is foremost or preeminent in any respect: a movie queen; a beauty queen; Athens, the queen of the Aegean</li><li>Slang: a term used to refer to a gay man, especially one who is flamboyantly campy or effeminate</li><li>drag queen</li><li>a playing card bearing a picture of a queen</li><li>Chess: the most powerful piece of either color, moved across any number of empty squares in any direction</li><li>Entomology: a fertile female ant, bee, termite, or wasp</li><li>a word formerly used in communications to represent the letter Q</li></ul><p><strong>Verb</strong></p><ul><li>to reign as queen</li><li>to behave in an imperious or pretentious manner (usually followed by it)</li><li>Chess: to become promoted to a queen</li></ul>