queen
part of speech
noun (a queen, queens)
meaning for a pupil
1) A queen is a woman who rules a country, usually because she was born into the royal family. tree →
2) A queen is also the wife of a king. tree →
3) In chess, the queen is the strongest piece; in cards, the queen is a picture card. tree →
4) A queen bee or queen ant is the one female that lays all the eggs in the colony. tree →
sense in the lessons
In history lessons queens like Elizabeth I and Queen Victoria ruled kingdoms. In science the queen bee lays eggs for the whole hive. In stories queens can be kind or wicked (the Snow Queen, the Evil Queen). Phrases: «the Queen of England», «queen bee», «queen of hearts», «crowned queen».
examples
- Queen Victoria ruled for over sixty years. tree →
- The queen wore a gold crown. tree →
- In chess, protect your queen! tree →
- The queen bee lays thousands of eggs. tree →
- In Snow White, the wicked queen had a magic mirror. tree →
- I drew the queen of hearts from the pack. tree →
- The king and queen waved from the balcony. tree →
- The Queen gathered together the lilies. tree →
note
Countable: queen, queens. Use a capital letter with a name or title: «Queen Elizabeth», «the Queen». The male word is «king»; the daughter of a king or queen is a «princess». In a card deck there are 4 queens out of 52 cards.
In the corpora
- Prince Philip died on 9 April 2021 aged 99, and the Queen sat alone at his funeral because of Covid distancing rules.
- Queen Elizabeth II died on 8 September 2022 at Balmoral in Scotland, aged 96, after seventy years as Queen.
- Camilla became Queen when Charles became King and was crowned with him in May 2023.
- A honeybee queen can lay up to about two thousand eggs a day, and the worker bees feed and care for the young.
- Some ant queens can live for nearly 30 years, the longest-lived insects known.
Trees and pragmatics
Every meaning and example of «queen» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.