Synonyms for queen

noun

• a female sovereign ruler
• female cat
• offensive term for a homosexual man
• a competitor who holds a preeminent position
• 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
• (chess) the most powerful piece
• one of four face cards in a deck bearing a picture of a queen
• something personified as a woman who is considered the best or most important of her kind
• the only fertile female in a colony of social insects such as bees and ants and termites; its function is to lay eggs
• the wife or widow of a king

verb

• become a queen
• promote to a queen, as of a pawn in chess