QUEEN
What does "QUEEN" mean?
A female sovereign ruler, or the wife of a king.
Meanings
- A woman who reigns over a country in her own right. The queen addressed the nation on the eve of war.
- The wife or widow of a king. She became queen the day she married the king.
- The most powerful piece in chess, able to move any number of squares in a straight or diagonal line. He sacrificed his queen to force checkmate.
- The single reproductive female in a colony of bees, ants, or termites. The whole hive serves a single queen.
- A playing card ranking between the jack and the king. She drew the queen of hearts.
Did you know?
- The chess queen used to be the board's weakest fighter, creeping one diagonal square at a time, until rule changes around the 1470s turned her into the most powerful piece in the game - a transformation sometimes called 'mad queen' chess.
Word origin
From Old English 'cwen' meaning 'woman, wife, queen', from a Germanic root related to Greek 'gyne' (woman) - the same ancient root behind 'gynecology'.
Remember it
QUEEN has a double-E in the middle - the two E's are her crown's twin jewels.
A little poem
She crosses the board
in a single fearless line-
kings only shuffle.
haiku
What it teaches
Power is not always granted; sometimes the rules change beneath a figure and reveal what she could always do.
Quick facts
What does QUEEN mean?
A female sovereign ruler, or the wife of a king.
Is QUEEN a valid word?
Yes — QUEEN is one of the answer words in Wordul, the daily word game.
How many letters is QUEEN?
QUEEN has 5 letters and 1 syllable.
Where does QUEEN come from?
From Old English 'cwen' meaning 'woman, wife, queen', from a Germanic root related to Greek 'gyne' (woman) - the same ancient root behind 'gynecology'.
What can QUEEN teach us?
Power is not always granted; sometimes the rules change beneath a figure and reveal what she could always do.
How players do
Be the first to solve it.