queen

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  1. noun The wife or widow of a king.
  2. noun A woman sovereign.
  3. noun Something having eminence or supremacy in a given domain and personified as a woman: Paris is regarded as the queen of cities.
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  1. Middle English quene, from Old English cwēn; see gwen- in Indo-European roots.

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  1. from Middle English queen, quen, quene, qwhene, whene, kuen, cwene, cwen, from Anglo-Saxon cwēn, rarely cwǣn (genitive cwēne), a woman (Latin femina), wife (Latin uxor), queen (Latin regina, imperatrix, augusta), = Old Saxon quān, wife, = Old High German quēna, chuuēna, wife, = Icelandic kvān, kvæn, wife, = Gothic (Moesogothic) kwēns, rarely kweins, wife (not recorded in the sense of ‘queen’). See quean.
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