Definitions for queenkwin

Random House Webster's College Dictionary

queen^*kwin(n.)

a female sovereign or monarch.
Category: Government
the wife or consort of a king.
Category: Government
a woman, or something personified as a woman, preeminent in some respect:
a beauty queen; Athens, the queen of the Aegean.
Slang. Usually Disparaging and Offensive.(a term used to refer to a male homosexual, esp. one who is flamboyantly campy.)
Category: Common Vocabulary, Status (usage)
Ref: drag queen.
a playing card bearing a picture of a queen.
the most powerful chess piece of either color, able to be moved across any number of empty squares in any direction.
Category: Checkers and Chess
a fertile female ant, bee, termite, or wasp.
Category: Entomology
a word formerly used in communications to represent the letter
Q.
(v.i.)to reign as queen.
Category: Government
to behave in an imperious or pretentious manner (usu. fol. by it).
(of a pawn in chess) to become promoted to a queen.
Category: Checkers and Chess
(v.t.)to make a queen of; crown.
Category: Government

^* Usage: Definition 4a is usually used with disparaging intent and perceived as insulting. However, it is also used by homosexuals as a positive term of self-reference.

Origin of queen:

bef. 900; ME quene, quen, OE cwēn woman, queen, c. ON kvān, Go qēns

Queenkwin(n.)

Ellery,joint pen name of Manfred Bennington Lee and Frederic Dannay.
Category: Biography

Princeton's WordNet

queen(noun)
the only fertile female in a colony of social insects such as bees and ants and termites; its function is to lay eggs
queen, queen regnant, female monarch(noun)
a female sovereign ruler
queen(noun)
the wife or widow of a king
queen(noun)
something personified as a woman who is considered the best or most important of her kind
"Paris is the queen of cities"; "the queen of ocean liners"
king, queen, world-beater(noun)
a competitor who holds a preeminent position
queen(noun)
one of four face cards in a deck bearing a picture of a queen
queen(noun)
(chess) the most powerful piece
queen, queen mole rat(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
tabby, queen(verb)
female cat
queen(verb)
promote to a queen, as of a pawn in chess
queen(verb)
become a queen
"her pawn queened"

Kernerman English Learner's Dictionary

queen(noun)kwin
a female monarch, or the wife of a male monarch
the Queen of Belgium
queenkwin
a female insect
a queen bee
queenkwin
a playing card with a picture of a queen on it
the queen of spades
queenkwin
a gay man
***They called him a queen.

Wiktionary

queen(Noun)
A female monarch. Example: Queen Victoria
queen(Noun)
The wife or widow of a king. Example: Queen Elizabeth, the Queen Mother
queen(Noun)
The most powerful piece, able to move any number of spaces horizontally, vertically, or diagonally.
queen(Noun)
A playing card with the picture of a queen on its face, the twelfth card in a given suit.
queen(Noun)
A powerful or forceful female person.
queen(Noun)
An effeminate male homosexual. See drag queen.
queen(Noun)
A reproductive female animal in a hive, such as an ant, bee, termite or wasp.
queen(Noun)
An adult female cat valued for breeding. See tom.
queen(Verb)
to make a queen
queen(Verb)
to promote a pawn, usually to a queen.
queen(Verb)
To sit on the face of (a partner) to receive oral sex.
Queen(ProperNoun)
A title given to queens.
Queen Elizabeth II

Origin: From quene, from cwen, cwene. The same Middle English word also yielded quean. Ultimately from kwēniz, from gʷḗn.

Webster Dictionary

Queen(noun)
the wife of a king
Queen(noun)
a woman who is the sovereign of a kingdom; a female monarch; as, Elizabeth, queen of England; Mary, queen of Scots
Queen(noun)
a woman eminent in power or attractions; the highest of her kind; as, a queen in society; -- also used figuratively of cities, countries, etc
Queen(noun)
the fertile, or fully developed, female of social bees, ants, and termites
Queen(noun)
the most powerful, and except the king the most important, piece in a set of chessmen
Queen(noun)
a playing card bearing the picture of a queen; as, the queen of spades
Queen(noun)
a male homosexual, esp. one who is effeminate or dresses in women's clothing
Queen(verb)
to act the part of a queen
Queen(verb)
to make a queen (or other piece, at the player's discretion) of by moving it to the eighth row; as, to queen a pawn