(n.) A male homosexual, esp. one who is effeminate or dresses in women's clothing.
(v. i.) To act the part of a queen.
(n.) The wife of a king.
(n.) A woman who is the sovereign of a kingdom; a female monarch; as, Elizabeth, queen of England; Mary, queen of Scots.
(n.) A woman eminent in power or attractions; the highest of her kind; as, a queen in society; -- also used figuratively of cities, countries, etc.
(n.) The fertile, or fully developed, female of social bees, ants, and termites.
(n.) The most powerful, and except the king the most important, piece in a set of chessmen.
(n.) A playing card bearing the picture of a queen; as, the queen of spades.
(v. i.) To make a queen (or other piece, at the player's discretion) of by moving it to the eighth row; as, to queen a pawn.
Example Sentences:
(1) Queen Alexandra's Royal Army Nursing Corps, Army Reserve.
(2) I liked watching Morecambe & Wise, I liked the Queen's speech because it was on and everyone listened to it.
(3) • Queen Margaret Union, one of the University of Glasgow's two student unions, says 200 students there are marching on the principal's office at the moment to present an anti-cuts petition.
(4) Buckingham Palace was drawn into the dispute when it was revealed that Pownall had sought advice from the Lord Chamberlain, a key officer in the royal household, on the potential misuse of the portcullis emblem due to it being the property of the Queen.
(5) Hopes that the Queen's diamond jubilee and the £9bn spent on the Olympics would lift sales over the longer term have largely been dashed as growth slows and the outlook, though robust with a growing order book, remains subdued.
(6) Governor General Quentin Bryce, the monarch's representative in Australia and the first woman to fill the role, had greeted the Queen by curtsying.
(7) The Queen Boat case was one of three big sex stories that helped to squeeze bad news out of the papers around the same time.
(8) "Throughout America, the Queen stands for decency and civility."
(9) When the plane bringing his friend in touched down, they were greeted with a recorded welcome from the Queen telling them that they had now arrived in a safe country.
(10) Big musical acts (such as BB King, Keith Urban and Queens of the Stone Age) appear during the summer concert lineup but there are also drop-in yoga sessions, and hiking and biking trails wind through sculpted rocks and wildflowers.
(11) Possible options for a temporary, alternative building have previously included the nearby Queen Elizabeth II building and the Central Methodist Hall.
(12) At Queen Charlotte's Maternity Hospital from 1980 to 1987, 195 women had a trial of scar in their second ongoing pregnancy, having been delivered previously by elective caesarean section.
(13) Gove's intervention has been seen as unhelpful by some Conservative party officials who are in the midst of ensuring that this week's expected vote on an amendment to the Queen's speech does not become a vote on Cameron's authority.
(14) In 1835, before she became Queen, a young Victoria stayed at Wentworth Woodhouse, which has almost 400 rooms.
(15) Many businessmen like it.” At the entrance to Jiang’s swish showroom, customers are welcomed by posters of a cigar-smoking Winston Churchill and the Queen Mother, standing beside Land Rovers.
(16) Queen's speech: the day ‘psychoactive drugs’ tripped off the royal tongue Read more The first Queen’s speech of the second term should be golden.
(17) Those fed royal jelly as larvae emerge as queens and do little but lay eggs.
(18) Facebook Twitter Pinterest The Queen hosts the banquet in the Buckingham Palace ballroom.
(19) In its determination to probe the (semi) private lives of the nation's kings and queens, no imperial pyjama leg is left unplundered.
(20) Byrne's Nursie had the same indefatigable garrulousness, the same sense that she knew all the worst things about her charge – Miranda Richardson's bibulous Queen Elizabeth – so Gloriana and the rest had to indulge her.
Regency
Definition:
(a.) The office of ruler; rule; authority; government.
(a.) Especially, the office, jurisdiction, or dominion of a regent or vicarious ruler, or of a body of regents; deputed or vicarious government.
(a.) A body of men intrusted with vicarious government; as, a regency constituted during a king's minority, absence from the kingdom, or other disability.
Example Sentences:
(1) Chaytor had claimed £12,925 between 2005 and 2006 for renting a flat in Regency Street, Westminster, producing a tenancy agreement purporting to show that he was paying £1,175 a month in rent to the landlord, Sarah Elizabeth Rastrick.
(2) The variation in the breastfeeding period between the regencies is a matter of further investigation.
(3) They live in a Regency house in Brighton and must be reasonably well off.
(4) When the former Liberal party leader Jeremy Thorpe needs attention, he presses the buzzer hanging from his neck and Disney's It's a Small World After All rings round his large Regency house in Notting Hill.
(5) But Revolution, performed at the Regency in San Francisco in a church-like venue that evoked the Moscow cathedral, had repeated dark undertones.
(6) A microscopic study in 1975 and 1977 revealed unusual cytoplasmic vacuoles in the sperm of "Regency" prompting us to send semen to A. J. Luedke, USDA-ARS, Denver, Colorado, USA, to attempt virus isolation.
(7) Pyongyang, a film commissioned by New Regency pictures and set to star Steve Carrell playing a character accused of espionage by the regime, will no longer go into production, according to deadline.com .
(8) Considerable and rather unexpected differences existed between regencies.
(9) Regency, Victorian and Edwardian have resonance, but trying to crystallise her decades into an epoch will cause furious debate.
(10) In the regencies along the south and north coast of East Java 90%, respectively 94% of children aged 19-24 months were still breastfed; in Sidoarjo, a relative 'surplus' area, the corresponding figure was 73% and on the island of Madura 51%.
(11) For many years they lived in a handsome regency house near Frome in Somerset.
(12) In 1985, the disease had spread to 26 of 27 Provinces and 160 of 300 regencies or municipalities.
(13) "There is already a system in place for the Dalai Lama's regency.
(14) The second charge alleges that between September 2005 and September 2006 Mr Chaytor dishonestly claimed £12,925, purportedly for renting a property in Regency Street, London, when he was in fact the owner of the property.
(15) For Mike Hussey, director of Land Securities' London , who was managing the development at the time, that meant an architect working in traditional or classical styles, such as Quinlan Terry, one of the princes' favourite architects, who specialises in building grand houses in historical modes: Ionic, Gothick, Corinthian, Regency, but definitely not "ultra-modern" as Nouvel proposed.
(16) Build the message that Trump is screwing the very people he said he’d fight for Jon Favreau “It’s very easy for all of us to go down the rabbit hole … then you waste all your time and energy on the Trump tweet of the day, and you don’t build the message that Trump is screwing the very people he said he’d fight for.” In Baltimore, between closed-door panel sessions, Democrats milling about the lobby of the Hyatt Regency were mindful of the constant media churn surrounding Trump.
(17) In this study an intervention alternative was carried out with weekly chloroquine prophylaxis to children below 10 years of age in 3 malaria areas of central Java, namely the villages Bedono Kluwung and Kalikutes in Purworejo Regency and Pablengan in Karang Anyar Regency.
(18) I've done a regency print that I've also developed into a jacquard in royal blue.
(19) Legislation will amend laws including the Bill of Rights 1688, the Act of Settlement 1700, the Act of Union with Scotland 1706 and the Coronation Oaths Act 1688, Princess Sophia's Precedence Act 1711, the Royal Marriages Act 1772, the Union with Ireland Act 1800, the Accession Declaration Act 1910 and the Regency Act 1937.
(20) He is understood to have bought a Regency townhouse in Edinburgh, and apartments in London and New York.