Pronunciation (US) SAMPA:/kwin/ Noun A female monarch. Ex: Queen Victoria (chess) Piece able to move both horizontally and diagonally any number of spaces; most powerful piece. (playing_cards) Playing card with picture of queen on its face, 12th card in a given suit. A powerful or forceful female person. Slang. A male homosexual who dresses up in female's clothing. See Drag queen. A reproductive female ant, bee, termite or wasp. Translations Breton: rouanez f -ed pl (1,2,4), damez f (3), katell f -ed pl (5) Bulgarian: кралица f (1), царица f (1, 2, 5), дама f (3), травестит (5) Catalan: reina f Chinese: 后, 王后, 女王 Czech: královna (1, 4), dáma (2, 3) f, svršek (3) m Dutch: koningin f, dame f (2) Esperanto: reĝino Finnish: kuningatar French: reine f (1, 2, 3); folle f (4) Galician: raíña f German: Königin f (1, 6), Dame f (2, 3) Greek: vasileia, vaseilissa Hebrew: מלכה f Indonesian: ratu Interlingua: regina Italian: regina f (1, 2, 3, 4) Japanese: 女王 (じょおう, joō) Korean: 여왕 [女王] (yeowang) Latin: regina Norwegian: Dronning Polish: królowa f (1), hetman m (2), dama f (3) Portuguese: rainha f Romanian: regină f (1, 2) damă (3) Russian: королева(koroleva) Slovak: kráľovná (1, 4), dáma (2, 3) f, horník (3) m Spanish: reina f Swedish: drottning Turkish: kraliçe Volapük: jireg Related Words king, emperor, empress, prince, princess, kingdom, drag queen