Queen | Definition of Queen by Merriam-Webster

1 a : the wife or widow of a king

b : the wife or widow of a tribal chief

2 a : a female monarch

b : a female chieftain

3 a : a woman eminent in rank, power, or attractions a movie queen

b : a goddess or a thing personified as female and having supremacy in a specified realm

c : an attractive girl or woman especially : a beauty contest winner

4 : the most privileged piece of each color in a set of chessmen having the power to move in any direction across any number of unoccupied squares

5 : a playing card marked with a stylized figure of a queen

6 : the fertile fully developed female of social bees, ants, and termites whose function is to lay eggs

7 : a mature female cat kept especially for breeding

8 slang , often disparaging : a male homosexual especially : an effeminate one

1 : to act like a queen especially : to put on airs — usually used with it queens it over her friends

2 : to become a queen in chess the pawn queens