Definition of "Queen"

Queen

noun
plural Queens
1. Alternative letter-case form of queen (“consort or widow of a king”).
2. Alternative letter-case form of queen (“female monarch”).
3. A title used before the personal name of a queen.
  Quotations
  The reminiscences of Princess Mary Louise, granddaughter of Queen Victoria, vividly evoke this continuity of royal women “performing” masculinity, by a page of illustration showing Queens Victoria and Elizabeth II, mounted on horseback in almost identical uniform, reviewing troops.
  2007, Clarissa Campbell Orr, “The Feminization of the Monarchy, 1780–1910: Royal Masculinity and Female Empowerment”, in Andrzej Olechnowicz, editor, The Monarchy and the British Nation, 1780 to the Present, Cambridge University Press, page 94
4. (World War II era, joint US/RAF) radiotelephony clear-code word for the letter Q.
proper noun
1. Alternative letter-case form of queen (“Virgin Mary”).
2. In Commonwealth realms, the personification of the Crown, particularly in legal matters.
3. A surname transferred from the nickname, originating as a nickname.
4. An unincorporated community in Eddy County, New Mexico, United States, named after the Queen Ranch.
5. An unincorporated community in Bedford County, Pennsylvania, United States.