English Dictionary

queen

IPA（発音記号）

/kwiːn/

名詞

俗語 廃用 稀用 略語 別表記 省略 歴史的 軽蔑的 時々 アメリカ英語 限定用法

The wife, consort, or widow of a king. / A female monarch. / (Christianity) The Virgin Mary (especially in formulations such as Queen of Heaven, Queen of Glory). / An excellent woman.

日本語の意味

王の妻、伴侶、または王の未亡人 / 女性の君主、女王 / キリスト教における聖母マリア（特に『天の女王』『栄光の女王』という表現が使われる） / 優れた女性

The queen waved from the palace balcony as the crowd cheered her arrival.

宮殿のバルコニーから王妃が手を振ると、群衆は彼女の到着に歓声を上げた。

意味（1）

The wife, consort, or widow of a king.

The divorced king was looking for a new queen.

意味（2）

A female monarch.

Holonym: royal family

意味（3）

(Christianity) The Virgin Mary (especially in formulations such as Queen of Heaven, Queen of Glory).

[…] and yet I will not ſay but amongſt duſt there is Pearle found, and in hard rockes Dyamonds of great value, and ſo amongſt many women there are ſome good, as that gracious and glorious Queene of all woman kinde the Virgin Mary the mother of al bliſſe, what wun her honour, but an humble minde and her paines and loue vnto our Sauiour Chriſt.

意味（4）

An excellent woman.

“Always look after that girl, doc. She's a queen!”

意味（5）

A woman pre-eminent in a particular group or field.

But now I was the Lord Of this faire manſion,maſter of my ſeruants, Queene ore my ſelfe : and euen now,but now.

意味（6）

(slang, originally US) An attractive woman; a female partner in a romantic relationship.

Know you the town is full of folks? Know you the shows are full of queens? That every mail is full of jokes Born of the nation's brightest beans?

意味（7）

Something regarded as the greatest of its kind or as having pre-eminence or power comparable to that of a queen over a given area.

Thare saw I May, of myrthfull monethis quene.

意味（8）

A chess piece that, under contemporary rules, is the most powerful, able to move any number of spaces horizontally, vertically, or diagonally.

Holonym: chess set

意味（9）

A playing card with a depiction of a queen on it, generally ranking next below the king and above the jack in a given suit.

Holonyms: deck of cards, pack of cards

意味（10）

A red disk that is the most valuable piece in the Asian game of carrom.

Imran was good at carrom. Always after the bright red queen, the centre of attention on the board, he tussled to win it first.

意味（11）

s around the queen (sense 6) of the hive, marked with a pink dot]] A reproductive female insect in a hive, such as an ant, bee, termite or wasp.

Each time a worker shakes the queen, she grasps the queen with her forelegs and shakes her own body for a second or so, delivering 10 to 20 vigorous shakings of the queen […]

意味（12）

(obsolete) A type of flatfish, specifically the lemon sole.

意味（13）

(rare) A queen apple.

意味（14）

(originally UK) A queen scallop.

意味（15）

(construction, obsolete) Ellipsis of queen post.

Truss framed with King Posts […] Do. with Kings and Queens.

意味（16）

(now chiefly historical) A type of large roofing slate.

意味（17）

(slang, sometimes derogatory) A homosexual man, especially one regarded as effeminate.

[…] all of these men are lasciviously dressed in womanly attire, short sleeves, low-necked dresses and the usual ball-room decorations and ornaments of women, feathered and ribboned head-dresses, garters, frills, flowers, ruffles, etc., and deport themselves as women. Standing or seated on a pedestal, but accessible to all the rest, is the naked queen (a male), whose phallic member, decorated with a ribbon, is subject to the gaze and osculations in turn, of all the members of this lecherous gang of sexual perverts and phallic fornicators.

意味（18）

An adult female cat capable of breeding.

A few outdoor houses for the queens are used.

意味（19）

Ellipsis of queen olive.

The combined quantity of Queens and Manzanillas to be pickled from the 1935 olive crop in the Seville District of Spain is estimated at 32,500 short tons, according to a report received from N. I. Nielsen, Agricultural Attaché at Paris.

意味（20）

(LGBT, slang) Ellipsis of drag queen.

Since exposure plays a major role in the success of a queen, even those performers who do not win a Talent Night can obtain bookings by the bar and establish a reputation.

意味（21）

(attributive, originally Canada, US) Pertaining to a queen-size bed or queen-size bedding.

Ad Hoc Softwares has bright hand-blocked floral cotton bed linens from India, including flat full/queen sheets, were $85, now $51; standard pillowcases, were $18 each, now $10.80 […]

意味（22）

A monarch butterfly (Danaus spp., especially Danaus gilippus).

queens （ plural ）