the only fertile female in a colony of social insects such as bees and ants and termites; its function is to lay eggs | an Old Testament book telling of a beautiful Jewess who became queen of Persia and saved her people from massacre |
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 | (Old Testament) a beautiful Jewess chosen by the king of Persia to be his queen; she stopped a plot to massacre all the Jews in Persia (an event celebrated by Jews as the feast of Purim) |
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 | |