Word | Noun | Adjective | Verb | Adverb |
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personification | Yes | No | No | No |
queen | Yes | No | Yes | No |
personification (noun) | queen (noun) |
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the act of attributing human characteristics to abstract ideas etc. | the only fertile female in a colony of social insects such as bees and ants and termites; its function is to lay eggs |
representing an abstract quality or idea as a person or creature | 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 |
a person who represents an abstract quality | female cat |
(chess) the most powerful piece | |
one of four face cards in a deck bearing a picture of a queen | |
a female sovereign ruler | |
the wife or widow of a king | |
offensive term for a homosexual man | |
something personified as a woman who is considered the best or most important of her kind | |
a female competitor who holds a preeminent position |
personification (verb) | queen (verb) |
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become a queen | |
promote to a queen, as of a pawn in chess |