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Look up: queen

  1. Queen
    Unneutered female cat.
    Found on http://www.moggies.co.uk/gloss.html

  2. queen
    [n] - something personified as a woman who is considered the best or most important of her kind 2. [n] - the wife or widow of a king 3. [n] - a female sovereign ruler 4. [n] - one of four face cards in a deck bearing a picture of a queen 5. [n] - (chess) the most powerful ches...
    Found on http://www.webdictionary.co.uk/definitio

  3. Queen
    Queen noun [ Middle English quen , quene , queen, quean, Anglo-Saxon cwēn wife, queen, woman; akin to Old Saxon quān wife, woman, Icelandic kvān wife, queen, Goth. qēns . √221....
    Found on http://www.encyclo.co.uk/webster/Q/7

  4. Queen
    Queen intransitive verb To act the part of a queen. Shak.
    Found on http://www.encyclo.co.uk/webster/Q/7

  5. Queen
    Queen intransitive verb [ imperfect & past participle Queened ; present participle & verbal noun Queening .] (Chess.) To make a queen (or other piece, at the player's discretion) of ...
    Found on http://www.encyclo.co.uk/webster/Q/7

  6. queen
    1. The wife of a king. ... 2. A woman who is the sovereign of a kingdom; a female monarch; as, Elizabeth, queen of England; Mary, queen of Scots. 'In faith, and by the heaven's quene.' (Chaucer) ... 3. A woman eminent in power or attractions; the highest of her kind; as, a queen in society; also use...
    Found on http://www.mondofacto.com/facts/dictiona

  7. queen
    noun (chess) the most powerful piece
    Found on http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/web

  8. queen
    queen regnant noun a female sovereign ruler
    Found on http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/web

  9. queen
    noun 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
    Found on http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/web

  10. queen
    noun a competitor who holds a preeminent position
    Found on http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/web

  11. Queen
    • (v. i.) To act the part of a queen. • (n.) The fertile, or fully developed, female of social bees, ants, and termites. • (n.) A playing card bearing the picture of a queen; as, the queen of spades. • (n.) A woman eminent in power or attractions; the highest of her kind; as, a q...
    Found on http://thinkexist.com/dictionary/meaning

  12. queen
    (from the article `ant`) There are generally three castes, or classes, within a colony: queens, males, and workers. Some species live in the nests of other species as ... Back in the parent colony, the first queen to emerge after the mother queen departs with the swarm immediately attempts to destroy the others. If two ... ...The res...
    Found on http://www.britannica.com/eb/a-z/q/5

  13. queen
    (from the article `chess`) Each player has one queen, which combines the powers of the rook and bishop and is thus the most mobile and powerful piece. The White queen begins at ... ...factor in the course of a game. But under the new rules the counselor underwent a sex change and gained vastly increased mobility to become the ... ......
    Found on http://www.britannica.com/eb/a-z/q/5

  14. queen
    (from the article `old maid`) Two or more can play with a standard 52-card deck from which one black queen is discarded. The cards are then dealt around one at a time as far as ...
    Found on http://www.britannica.com/eb/a-z/q/5

  15. Queen
    British rock band whose fusion of heavy metal, glam rock, and camp theatrics made it one of the most popular groups of the 1970s. Although generally ... [1 related articles]
    Found on http://www.britannica.com/eb/a-z/q/5

  16. Queen
    Queen is a English girl name. The meaning of the name is `Queen` Where is it used? The name Queen is mainly used In English.See also In English: Queenie (F) From Old English. Queen doesn`t appear In 2007`s top-1000 name list.The last time Queen appeared In the top-1000 was 58 years ago, In 1950...
    Found on http://i-am-pregnant.com/names/girls/Que

  17. Queen
    a fully developed female bee, larger and longer than a worker bee.
    Found on http://www.encyclo.co.uk/local/21030

  18. Queen
    Queen is slang for an effeminate male homosexual.
    Found on http://www.probertencyclopaedia.com/brow

  19. Queen
    Queen is slang for an effeminate male homosexual.
    Found on http://www.probertencyclopaedia.com/brow

  20. Queen
    British glam-rock group 1971–91 credited with making the first successful pop video, for their hit `Bohemian Rhapsody` (1975). The operatic flamboyance of lead singer Freddie Mercury (1946–1991) was the cornerstone of their popularity; other members of the band were Brian May (1947– ), John Deacon (1951–&#...
    Found on http://www.talktalk.co.uk/reference/ency

  21. Queen
    Female, non-neutered adult cat.
    Found on http://www.cats.org.uk/cat-glossary/

  22. Queen
    a female reproductive in social insects
    Found on http://www.pollination.com/glossary.cfm

  23. Queen
    a fully developed female bee, larger and longer than a worker bee.
    Found on http://www.beehives.info/beekeeping-term

  24. Queen
    Sexually developed female bee. The mother of all bees in the colony. Queen egg to adult development period is 16 days.
    Found on http://pages.prodigy.net/dscribner/bees/

  25. Queen
    (band) `Queen` are a British rock band formed in London in 1971, originally consisting of Freddie Mercury (lead vocals, piano), Brian May (guitar, vocals), John Deacon (bass guitar, vocals), and Roger Taylor (drums, vocals). Queen`s earliest works were influenced by progressive rock, but the ...
    Found on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Queen



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On 11th February, 1858, a 14 year old French peasant girl, Bernadette Soubirous claimed to have seen visions of the Virgin Mary at her native Lourdes. She also revealed that the waters of a spring near a grotto in Lourdes had been given healing powers by the Virgin. Eventually, the Roman Catholic church decided that the visions were authentic. Franz Werfel wrote the novel, Song of Bernadette, based on the story of Bernadette's visions. read more

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