queen
US: /ˈkwin/
UK: /kwˈiːn/
UK: /kwˈiːn/
English Vietnamese dictionary
queen /kwi:n/
- danh từ
- nữ hoàng, bà hoàng, bà chúa ((nghĩa đen) & (nghĩa bóng))
- the Queen of England: nữ hoàng Anh
- the rose is the queen of flowers: hoa hồng là chúa các loài hoa
- Venice the queen of the Adriatic: Vơ-ni-dơ thành phố đứng đầu vùng biển A-đri-a-tich
- vợ vua, hoàng hậu
- (đánh bài) quân Q
- (đánh cờ) quân đam
- con ong chúa; con kiến chúa
- the queen bee: con ong chúa
- Queen Anne is dead!
- người ta đã biết tỏng đi rồi, bây giờ mới nói!
- queen of hearts
- cô gái đẹp, người đàn bà đẹp
- nữ hoàng, bà hoàng, bà chúa ((nghĩa đen) & (nghĩa bóng))
- ngoại động từ
- chọn làm hoàng hậu; chọn làm nữ hoàng
- (đánh cờ) nâng (quân thường) thành quân đam
- to queen it
- làm như bà chúa
Advanced English dictionary
+ noun
female ruler
1 the female ruler of an independent state that has a royal family: to become / be crowned queen + kings and queens + the Queen of Norway + Queen Victoria
2 (also queen consort) the wife of a king
best in group
3 ~ (of sth) a woman, place or thing that is thought to be one of the best in a particular group or area: the queen of fashion + a movie queen + Venice, queen of the Adriatic
at festival
4 a woman or girl chosen to perform official duties at a festival or celebration: a carnival queen + a May queen (= at a festival to celebrate the coming of spring) + a homecoming queen
See also -
in chess
5 the most powerful piece used in the game of CHESS that can move any number of squares in any direction
in cards
6 a playing card with the picture of a queen on it
insect
7 a large female insect that lays eggs for the whole group: a queen bee
homosexual
8 (informal, !!!) an offensive word for a male HOMOSEXUAL who behaves more like a woman than a man: a drag queen (= a man dressed in women's clothes)
Idioms see ENGLISH, EVIDENCE, UNCROWNED
Thesaurus dictionary
n.
1 sovereign, monarch, ruler; empress; queen consort; queen mother; queen dowager:
She was absolutely thrilled when she was invited to a garden party at Buckingham Palace and met the Queen
2 beauty queen, movie queen, star, prima donna, diva; epitome, model, idol, leading light, cynosure, leader:
At the height of her career, she was known as 'the Queen of the Silver Screen'. 'Queen of the Antilles' was once a nickname of Cuba.
Collocation dictionary
1 female ruler/wife of a king
ADJ.
rightful | crowned | future
VERB + QUEEN
become | crown (sb), make sb, proclaim sb
She was crowned queen at the age of fifteen.
| depose, put aside
QUEEN + VERB
reign, rule, rule (over) sb/sth | abdicate
the queen's decision to abdicate
PREP.
under a/the ~
England under Queen Elizabeth I
| ~ of
the Queen of France
PHRASES
queen consort
(= the wife of a king)
2 playing card
cards two, three, etc. of ~s the four of hearts jack, queen, king, ace of ~s the ace of spades high, low ~ a low club black, red ~ You can't put a red five on a red six. pick up, take ~ Why didn't you pick up the king? have, hold ~ He knew his opponents held only spades and diamonds. lay/put down, play ~ She put down a joker. lead ~ You should have led a high spade. draw ~ Use your ace and king to draw the trumps. trump ~ He trumped my ace! ~ be trumps/wild/high Spades are trumps. Let's play again. This time twos are wild, aces high. ~ trick (in games like bridge and whist) We needed to take three more spade tricks. on a/the ~ You can play either a nine or a jack on a ten.
PLAYING CARD:
Concise English dictionary
queens|queened|queeningkwɪːn
noun
+the only fertile female in a colony of social insects such as bees and ants and termites; its function is to lay eggs
+a female sovereign ruler
+the wife or widow of a king
+something personified as a woman who is considered the best or most important of her kind
+a competitor who holds a preeminent position
+offensive terms for an openly homosexual man
+one of four face cards in a deck bearing a picture of a queen
+(chess) the most powerful piece
+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
+female cat
verb
+promote to a queen, as of a pawn in chess
+become a queen
queen|kings|queens|kinged|kingingkɪŋ
noun
+a male sovereign; ruler of a kingdom
+a competitor who holds a preeminent position
+a very wealthy or powerful businessman
+preeminence in a particular category or group or field
+United States woman tennis player (born in 1943)
+United States guitar player and singer of the blues (born in 1925)
+United States charismatic civil rights leader and Baptist minister who campaigned against the segregation of Blacks (1929-1968)
+a checker that has been moved to the opponent's first row where it is promoted to a piece that is free to move either forward or backward
+one of the four playing cards in a deck bearing the picture of a king
+(chess) the weakest but the most important piece
