queen
noun
Key Types & categories Parts & wholes Related & opposite
- Word type
- noun
- verb
- adjective
- adverb
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- core relation
- instance, member or derived
- substance, domain or see-also
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Senses
Sense 1 noun
the only fertile female in a colony of social insects such as bees and ants and termites; its function is to lay eggs
Types & categories
Sense 2 verb
promote to a queen, as of a pawn in chess
Types & categories
- promote hypernym
Related & opposite
- queen derivation
Sense 3 noun
a female sovereign ruler
Types & categories
- female aristocrat hypernym
- Queen of England hyponym
- Cleopatra instance hyponym
- Isabella instance hyponym
- Liliuokalani instance hyponym
- Mary Queen of Scots instance hyponym
Parts & wholes
- royal family member holonym
Related & opposite
Sense 4 verb
become a queen
her pawn queened
Types & categories
- promote hypernym
Related & opposite
- queen derivation
- chess game domain topic
Sense 5 noun
the wife or widow of a king
Types & categories
- female aristocrat hypernym
- queen consort hyponym
- queen dowager hyponym
- queen regent hyponym
- Boleyn instance hyponym
- Catherine de Medicis instance hyponym
- Eleanor of Aquitaine instance hyponym
- Esther instance hyponym
- Catherine Howard instance hyponym
- Jezebel instance hyponym
- Marie Antoinette instance hyponym
- Nefertiti instance hyponym
- Parr instance hyponym
- Seymour instance hyponym
Parts & wholes
- royal family member holonym
Related & opposite
- queenly derivation
Sense 6 noun
something personified as a woman who is considered the best or most important of her kind
Paris is the queen of cities
Types & categories
- personification hypernym
Sense 7 noun
a competitor who holds a preeminent position
Types & categories
- rival hypernym
Sense 8 noun
offensive term for an openly homosexual man
Types & categories
- gay man hypernym
Related & opposite
- derogation domain usage
Sense 9 noun
one of four face cards in a deck bearing a picture of a queen
Types & categories
- face card hypernym
Parts & wholes
- pack of cards member holonym
Sense 10 noun
(chess) the most powerful piece
Types & categories
- chessman hypernym
Related & opposite
- queen derivation
- queen derivation
- chess game domain topic
Sense 11 noun
an especially large mole rat and the only member of a colony of naked mole rats to bear offspring which are sired by only a few males
Types & categories
- naked mole rat hypernym
Sense 12 noun
female cat
Types & categories
- domestic cat hypernym
Table view of this graph
| Sense | Relation | Group | Word |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hypernym | Types & categories | insect |
| 1 | hyponym | Types & categories | queen bee |
| 2 | derivation | Related & opposite | queen |
| 2 | hypernym | Types & categories | promote |
| 3 | antonym | Related & opposite | king |
| 3 | derivation | Related & opposite | queenly |
| 3 | member holonym | Parts & wholes | royal family |
| 3 | hypernym | Types & categories | female aristocrat |
| 3 | hyponym | Types & categories | Queen of England |
| 3 | instance hyponym | Types & categories | Cleopatra |
| 3 | instance hyponym | Types & categories | Isabella |
| 3 | instance hyponym | Types & categories | Liliuokalani |
| 3 | instance hyponym | Types & categories | Mary Queen of Scots |
| 4 | derivation | Related & opposite | queen |
| 4 | domain topic | Related & opposite | chess game |
| 4 | hypernym | Types & categories | promote |
| 5 | derivation | Related & opposite | queenly |
| 5 | member holonym | Parts & wholes | royal family |
| 5 | hypernym | Types & categories | female aristocrat |
| 5 | hyponym | Types & categories | queen consort |
| 5 | hyponym | Types & categories | queen dowager |
| 5 | hyponym | Types & categories | queen regent |
| 5 | instance hyponym | Types & categories | Boleyn |
| 5 | instance hyponym | Types & categories | Catherine de Medicis |
| 5 | instance hyponym | Types & categories | Eleanor of Aquitaine |
| 5 | instance hyponym | Types & categories | Esther |
| 5 | instance hyponym | Types & categories | Catherine Howard |
| 5 | instance hyponym | Types & categories | Jezebel |
| 5 | instance hyponym | Types & categories | Marie Antoinette |
| 5 | instance hyponym | Types & categories | Nefertiti |
| 5 | instance hyponym | Types & categories | Parr |
| 5 | instance hyponym | Types & categories | Seymour |
| 6 | hypernym | Types & categories | personification |
| 7 | hypernym | Types & categories | rival |
| 8 | domain usage | Related & opposite | derogation |
| 8 | hypernym | Types & categories | gay man |
| 9 | member holonym | Parts & wholes | pack of cards |
| 9 | hypernym | Types & categories | face card |
| 10 | derivation | Related & opposite | queen |
| 10 | derivation | Related & opposite | queen |
| 10 | domain topic | Related & opposite | chess game |
| 10 | hypernym | Types & categories | chessman |
| 11 | hypernym | Types & categories | naked mole rat |
| 12 | hypernym | Types & categories | domestic cat |