noun

• A woman whose pre-eminence, power, or forcefulness is comparable to that of a queen.
  "[…] and yet I will not ſay but amongſt duſt there is Pearle found, and in hard rockes Dyamonds of great value, and ſo amongſt many women there are ſome good, as that gracious and glorious Queene of all woman kinde the Virgin Mary the mother of al bliſſe, what wun her honour, but an humble minde and her paines and loue vnto our Sauiour Chriſt."
• A woman whose pre-eminence, power, or forcefulness is comparable to that of a queen.
  "Know you the town is full of folks? Know you the shows are full of queens? That every mail is full of jokes Born of the nation's brightest beans?"
• Referring to one of several items used in tabletop games:
  "For this cauſe that when he [the pawn] can procede so well in warre, as to arriue at the laſte rancke of hys enemies, he is choſen and made the beſt piece of the playe, to wit, he is the Quene."
• Referring to one of several items used in tabletop games:
  "There is 5. trumps beside the Queene, yᵉ hindmost yᵘ shalt finde her"

verb

• (intransitive, obsolete) To act the part of a queen; to behave imperiously; to queen it.
• (transitive) To make a queen or (figuratively) to give the status of a queen.
  "This dreame of mine / Being now awake, Ile Queene it no inch farther, / But milke my Ewes, and weepe."
• (chess) To promote a pawn to a queen.
  "Neither King will be able to stop the opponent's pawns from queening, when the game should be a draw. In such cases, which side queens first, or queens with check, can make a crucial difference. In this case, White promotes his pawn first and is able to put this advantage to good use."
• (beekeeping) To be the queen bee of a colony.
  "They have all been queened by imported stock, or the best of home-bred mothers."

noun

• (World War II era, joint US/RAF) radiotelephony clear-code word for the letter Q.