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The word Queen ultimately derives from an Indo-European root *gwena (woman) via Old English cw??n (woman, wife, queen). Cf. Old Norse kvenna (woman), Gothic qens (wife), Greek gyn?? (woman), Russian zhena, Sanskrit jani. It may have many meanings:
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- Queen regnant, a female monarch
- Queen consort, the wife of a king
- Queen dowager, a woman who was queen consort but whose husband has died or abdicated, someone else having become monarch
- Queen Mother, a queen dowager whose child, having succeeded his or her father, is now the monarch
- Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom|Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom http://www.royal.gov.uk
- Margrethe II of Denmark|Her Majesty Queen Margrethe II of Denmark http://www.kongehuset.dk/english/
- Beatrix of the Netherlands| Her Majesty Queen Beatrix of the Netherlands
- Queen (insect), the only female insect in a hive or colony of social insects that is fertile and egg laying
- Queen (cat), a female cat, usually one with a litter of kittens
- Queen (butterfly), a butterfly species from the subfamily Danainae found in Oklahoma
- Queen bee, the only female honeybee in a hive that is fertile and egg laying
- Queen (chess), the most powerful piece in the game of chess
- Queen (chess engine), the name of a chess engine
- Queen (playing card), a card in a deck of playing cards or tarot cards
- Promotion (chess)|Queening, an act in the game of checkers, draughts, or chess
- Queen's Club tennis club in London and the annual tennis tournament held there
- Queen (band), a British rock band, most prolific in the 1970s and 1980s with hits like "Bohemian Rhapsody" and "We Are The Champions"
- Queen (album)|Queen (album), the band Queen's debut album
- Queen: The Story of an American Family, a book by Alex Haley and a 1993 TV-miniseries based on the book
- Queens of the Stone Age, a rock music band
- Drag queen, a type of entertainer
- "Queen's Scout Award", the highest youth award in scouting when the British monarch is a female
- The Virgin Mary, as known by several epithets, including "Queen of the World," "Queen of Heaven," and "Queen of Angels"
- Facesitting or "queening", a sex act
- Queens, a borough in New York City, New York
- Queen's University, Canada, a university in Kingston, Ontario, Canada
- Queens County, New Brunswick
- Queens County, Nova Scotia
- Queens County, Prince Edward Island
- Queen's (electoral district), a disambiguation page for several electoral districts named Queens and Queen's in Canada
- Queens' College, Cambridge
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