- a female sovereign or monarch.
- the wife or consort of a king.
- 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.
- a term used to refer to a gay man, especially one who is flamboyantly campy or effeminate.
- drag queen.
- a playing card bearing a picture of a queen.
- the most powerful piece of either color, moved across any number of empty squares in any direction.
- a fertile female ant, bee, termite, or wasp.
- a word formerly used in communications to represent the letter Q.
- to reign as queen.
- to behave in an imperious or pretentious manner (usually followed by it).
- to become promoted to a queen.
- joint pen name of Manfred Bennington Lee and Frederick Dannay.
- a female sovereign who is the official ruler or head of state
- the wife or widow of a king
- a woman or a thing personified as a woman considered the best or most important of her kind
- an effeminate male homosexual
- the only fertile female in a colony of social insects, such as bees, ants, and termites, from the eggs of which the entire colony develops
- (as modifier)
- an adult female cat
- one of four playing cards in a pack, one for each suit, bearing the picture of a queen
- a chess piece, theoretically the most powerful piece, able to move in a straight line in any direction or diagonally, over any number of squares
- to promote (a pawn) to a queen when it reaches the eighth rank
- to crown as queen
- (of a gay man) to flaunt one's homosexuality
- to reign as queen
- to behave in an overbearing manner
- Ellery (ˈɛlərɪ). pseudonym of Frederic Dannay (1905–82) and Manfred B. Lee (1905–71), US co-authors of detective novels featuring a sleuth also called Ellery Queen
