Definitions

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  • adjective Resembling a queen (female monarch) or some aspect of one; regal, majestic.
  • adjective zoology Resembling a queen (reproductive female animal) or some aspect of one.

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  • adjective having the rank of or resembling or befitting a queen

Etymologies

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queen +‎ -like

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Examples

  • Mother As Goddess/Meeting with Goddess: The ultimate trial is often represented as a marriage between the hero and a queenlike, or mother-like figure.

    Christopher Cocca: Updating The Hero Myth Of Barack Obama Christopher Cocca 2011

  • Mother As Goddess/Meeting with Goddess: The ultimate trial is often represented as a marriage between the hero and a queenlike, or mother-like figure.

    Christopher Cocca: Updating The Hero Myth Of Barack Obama Christopher Cocca 2011

  • Bringing up the rear are Marley and Daria, and, queenlike in her stroller, Hypatia.

    Confetti Confidential Holly McQueen 2010

  • Bringing up the rear are Marley and Daria, and, queenlike in her stroller, Hypatia.

    Confetti Confidential Holly McQueen 2010

  • In a niche befitting her iconic status here, "Madame Cézanne in a Red Armchair" (c. 1877) presides, queenlike, over her varied offspring: Picasso's 1932 portrait of his lover Marie-Thérèse and Matisse's "Woman in Blue" (1937) reflect the persistent presence of Cézanne's inscrutable muse in early modernist circles.

    A Father of Modern Art and His Many Progeny 2009

  • Interestingly, he often meets a goddess/queenlike/mother-type figure.

    "Did Palin Help McCain Among White Women?" Ann Althouse 2008

  • Interestingly, he often meets a goddess/queenlike/mother-type figure.

    "Did Palin Help McCain Among White Women?" Ann Althouse 2008

  • You discern, not without interest, across that dim Révolutionary Bulletin itself, how she bears herself queenlike.

    Archive 2007-08-19 de Brantigny........................ 2007

  • You discern, not without interest, across that dim Révolutionary Bulletin itself, how she bears herself queenlike.

    "Trial of Marie-Antoinette." by Thomas Carlyle de Brantigny........................ 2007

  • I suppose she knew I was looking at her; but she showed always a queenlike indifference about what people might think or observe.

    Wylder's Hand 2003

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