Empress vs. Queen
Difference Between Empress and Queen
Empressnoun
The female monarch (ruler) of an empire.
Queennoun
A female monarch. Example: Queen Victoria.
Empressnoun
The wife or widow of an emperor or equated ruler.
Queennoun
The wife or widow of a king.
Empressnoun
(tarot) The third trump or major arcana card of most tarot decks.
Queennoun
(chess) The most powerful piece, able to move any number of spaces horizontally, vertically, or diagonally.
Empressnoun
(rare) A female chimpanzee.
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.
Empressnoun
A deciduous tree, Paulownia tomentosa
Queennoun
A powerful or forceful female person.
Empressverb
alternative form of impress
Queennoun
An effeminate male homosexual. Compare drag queen and street queen. See usage notes.
Empressnoun
a woman Emperor or the wife of an Emperor
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 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;
Paris is the queen of citiesthe queen of ocean linersQueennoun
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;
her pawn queened
