Transcription
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- [kweenz]
- /kwinz/
- /kwiːn/
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- US Pronunciation
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- [kweenz]
- /kwinz/
Definitions of queens word
- noun queens a female sovereign or monarch. 1
- noun queens the wife or consort of a king. 1
- noun queens a woman, or something personified as a woman, that is foremost or preeminent in any respect: a movie queen; a beauty queen; Athens, the queen of the Aegean. 1
- noun queens Slang: Disparaging and Offensive. a contemptuous term used to refer to a male homosexual, especially one who is flamboyantly campy or effeminate. drag queen. 1
- noun queens a playing card bearing a picture of a queen. 1
- noun queens Chess. the most powerful piece of either color, moved across any number of empty squares in any direction. 1
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Origin of queens
First appearance:
before 900 One of the 4% oldest English words
before 900; Middle English quene, quen, Old English cwēn woman, queen; cognate with Old Saxon quān, Old Norse kvān, Gothic qēns < Germanic *kwēni-; akin to Old Irish ben, Greek gynḗ woman, Russian zhená, Sanskrit jani wife
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Parts of speech for Queens
noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
queens popularity
A common word. It’s meaning is known to most children of preschool age. About 86% of English native speakers know the meaning and use the word.
Most Europeans know this English word. The frequency of it’s usage is somewhere between "mom" and "screwdriver".
queens usage trend in Literature
This diagram is provided by Google Ngram ViewerTop questions with queens
- how many queens are in a deck of cards?
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