Queen

The word Queen ultimately derives from an Indo-European root *gwena (woman) via Old English cwén (woman, wife, queen). Cf. Old Norse kvenna (woman), Gothic qens (wife), Greek gynē (woman), Russian zhena, Sanskrit jani. It may have many meanings:

Political

• A queen regnant is a female monarch
• A queen consort is the wife of a king. Usually the husband of a queen regnant is not known as king. In the United Kingdom, the term prince consort has been used.
• A queen dowager is a woman who was queen consort but whose husband has died or abdicated, someone else having become monarch.
• A queen mother is a queen dowager whose child, having succeeded his or her father, is now the monarch.
• Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom [1]
• Her Majesty Queen Margrethe II of Denmark [2]

Biology

• A queen (insect) is the only female insect in a hive or colony of social insects that is fertile and egg laying
• A queen (cat) is a female cat, usually one with a litter of kittens.

Game and Sport

• The queen (chess) is the most powerful piece in the game of chess
• Queen (chess engine) is the name of a chess engine
• The queen (playing card) is a card in a deck of playing cards or tarot cards.
• Queening is an act in the game of checkers, draughts, or chess
• A Queen's Club tennis club in London, or the annual tennis tournament held there.

Art and Literature

• Queen (band) is a British rock band, most prolific in the 1970s and 1980s with hits like "Bohemian Rhapsody" and "We Are The Champions".
  • "Queen (album)" by Queen.
• Alex Haley's Queen is book by Alex Haley and a 1993 TV-miniseries based on this book

Other

• A queen sized bed.
• A Drag queen is a type of entertainer.
• A Prom Queen.
• The "Queen's Scout Award" is the highest youth award in scouting when the British monarch is a female.
• Queen is an (often pejorative) slang term for a gay man.
• Queen' is used in several epithets of the Virgin Mary, including "Queen of the World," "Queen of Heaven," and "Queen of Angels."
• Queening (sexual practice) is a sex act also known as facesitting

See also

• Queen of Farts
• Queens, a borough in New York City, New York
• Queen's University, a university in Kingston, Ontario, Canada
• Queens County, Nova Scotia
• Queen's (New Brunswick electoral district) (1867-1892)
• Queen's (Prince Edward Island electoral district) (1903-1966)
• Queens (Nova Scotia electoral district), Nova Scotia (1867-1892)
• Queens (provincial electoral district), Nova Scotia (current electoral district in the Nova Scotia legislature)