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(verb) become a queen, of a chess pawn |
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Related Words: move up, rise |
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(verb) promote to a queen, as of a pawn in chess |
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Related Words: advance, elevate, kick upstairs, promote, raise, upgrade |
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(noun) the only fertile female in a colony of social insects such as bees and ants and termites; its function is to lay eggs |
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Related Words: insect, queen bee |
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(noun) especially large and only member of a colony of naked mole rats to bear offspring sired by only a few males |
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Related Words: naked mole rat |
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(noun) the most powerful chess piece |
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Related Words: chess piece, chessman |
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(noun) one of four cards in a deck bearing a picture of a queen |
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Related Words: court card, face card, picture card |
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(noun) a female sovereign ruler |
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Synonyms: female monarch, queen regnant |
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Related Words: Anne Boleyn, Boleyn, Cleopatra, Elizabeth, Elizabeth I, Elizabeth II, Esther, Guenevere, Guinevere, Jezebel, Victoria, female aristocrat |
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Antonyms: king |
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(noun) the wife or widow of a king |
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Related Words: female aristocrat, queen consort, queen dowager, queen regent |
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(noun) female cat |
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Synonyms: tabby |
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Related Words: Felis catus, Felis domesticus, domestic cat, house cat |
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