Origin of queen
before 900; Middle English
quene, quen, Old English
cwēn woman, queen; cognate with Old Saxon
quān, Old Norse
kvān, Gothic
qēns < Germanic
*kwēni-; akin to Old Irish
ben, Greek
gynḗ woman, Russian
zhená, Sanskrit
jani wife
OTHER WORDS FROM queen
queen·less, adjective queen·like, adjective un·der·queen, nounWords nearby queen
Definition for queen (2 of 2)
Queen
[ kween ]
/ kwin /
noun
Ellery,
joint pen name of Manfred Bennington Lee and Frederick Dannay.
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British Dictionary definitions for queen (1 of 2)
queen
/ (kwiːn) /
noun
verb
Word Origin for queen
Old English
cwēn; related to Old Saxon
quān wife, Old Norse
kvæn, Gothic
qēns wife
British Dictionary definitions for queen (2 of 2)
Queen
/ (kwiːn) /
noun
Ellery (ˈɛlərɪ). pseudonym of Frederic Dannay (1905–82) and Manfred B. Lee (1905–71), US co-authors of detective novels featuring a sleuth also called Ellery Queen