Queen vs. Sovereign
Queennoun
A female monarch. Example: Queen Victoria.
Queennoun
The wife or widow of a king.
Queennoun
(chess) The most powerful piece, able to move any number of spaces horizontally, vertically, or diagonally.
Queennoun
(card games) A playing card with the letter "Q" and the image of a queen on it, the twelfth card in a given suit.
Queennoun
A powerful or forceful female person.
Queennoun
An effeminate male homosexual. Compare drag queen and street queen. See usage notes.
Queennoun
A reproductive female animal in a hive, such as an ant, bee, termite or wasp.
Queennoun
An adult female cat valued for breeding. See also tom.
Queennoun
A queen olive.
Queennoun
A monarch butterfly (Danaus spp.)
Queenverb
To make a queen.
Queenverb
To act the part of a queen; to queen it.
Queenverb
(chess) To promote a pawn, usually to a queen.
Queenverb
(beekeeping) To provide with a new queen.
Queenverb
(beekeeping) To be the queen of a colony.
Queenverb
To sit on the face of (a partner) to receive oral sex.
Queennoun
The wife of a king.
Queennoun
A woman who is the sovereign of a kingdom; a female monarch; as, Elizabeth, queen of England; Mary, queen of Scots.
Queennoun
A woman eminent in power or attractions; the highest of her kind; as, a queen in society; - also used figuratively of cities, countries, etc.
Queennoun
The fertile, or fully developed, female of social bees, ants, and termites.
Queennoun
The most powerful, and except the king the most important, piece in a set of chessmen.
Queennoun
A playing card bearing the picture of a queen; as, the queen of spades.
Queennoun
A male homosexual, esp. one who is effeminate or dresses in women's clothing.
Queenverb
To act the part of a queen.
Queenverb
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.
Queennoun
the only fertile female in a colony of social insects such as bees and ants and termites; its function is to lay eggs
Queennoun
a female sovereign ruler
Queennoun
the wife or widow of a king
Queennoun
something personified as a woman who is considered the best or most important of her kind;
Queennoun
a competitor who holds a preeminent position
Queennoun
offensive terms for an openly homosexual man
Queennoun
one of four face cards in a deck bearing a picture of a queen
Queennoun
(chess) the most powerful piece
Queennoun
especially large and only member of a colony of naked mole rats to bear offspring sired by only a few males
Queennoun
female cat
Queenverb
promote to a queen, as of a pawn in chess
Queenverb
become a queen;
Sovereignadjective
Exercising power of rule.
Sovereignadjective
Exceptional in quality.
Sovereignadjective
Extremely potent or effective (of a medicine, remedy etc.).
Sovereignadjective
Having supreme, ultimate power.
Sovereignadjective
Princely; royal.
Sovereignadjective
Predominant; greatest; utmost; paramount.
Sovereignnoun
A monarch; the ruler of a country.
Sovereignnoun
One who is not a subject to a ruler or nation.
Sovereignnoun
A gold coin of the United Kingdom, with a nominal value of one pound sterling but in practice used as a bullion coin.
Sovereignnoun
A very large champagne bottle with the capacity of about 25 liters, equivalent to 33⅓ standard bottles.
Sovereignnoun
Any butterfly of the tribe Nymphalini, or genus Basilarchia, as the ursula and the viceroy.
Sovereignnoun
A large, garish ring; a sovereign ring.
Sovereignverb
(transitive) To rule over as a sovereign.
Sovereignadjective
Supreme or highest in power; superior to all others; chief; as, our sovereign prince.
Sovereignadjective
Independent of, and unlimited by, any other; possessing, or entitled to, original authority or jurisdiction; as, a sovereign state; a sovereign discretion.
Sovereignadjective
Princely; royal.
Sovereignadjective
Predominant; greatest; utmost; paramount.
Sovereignadjective
Efficacious in the highest degree; effectual; controlling; as, a sovereign remedy.
Sovereignnoun
The person, body, or state in which independent and supreme authority is vested; especially, in a monarchy, a king, queen, or emperor.
Sovereignnoun
A gold coin of Great Britain, on which an effigy of the head of the reigning king or queen is stamped, valued at one pound sterling, or about $4.86.
Sovereignnoun
Any butterfly of the tribe Nymphalidi, or genus Basilarchia, as the ursula and the viceroy.
Sovereignnoun
a nation's ruler or head of state usually by hereditary right
Sovereignadjective
of political bodies;
Sovereignadjective
greatest in status or authority or power;
Sovereignnoun
a supreme ruler, especially a monarch
Sovereignnoun
a former British gold coin worth one pound sterling, now only minted for commemorative purposes.
Sovereignadjective
possessing supreme or ultimate power
Sovereignadjective
(of a nation or its affairs) acting or done independently and without outside interference
Sovereignadjective
possessing royal power and status
Sovereignadjective
very good or effective
Sovereign
Sovereign is a title which can be applied to the highest leader in various categories. The word is borrowed from Old French souverain, which is ultimately derived from the Latin word superānus, meaning .
