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Word entry · 5 letters

queen

Best crossword clue

"Chess royal piece"

5 letters · collected on this word page

5 lettersPronunciation /kwiːn/Part of speech verb, nounSorted eenquStarts with QEnds with N4 cluesVery common crossword word
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Definitions

  1. Female ruler, king's wife, or powerful game piece.

Word origin

From Middle English quene, queen, cwen, from Old English cwēn (“queen”), from Proto-West Germanic *kwāni, from Proto-Germanic *kwēniz (“wife, woman”), from Proto-Indo-European *gʷénh₂s (“woman”).

Used in a sentence

  • The divorced king was looking for a new queen.
  • The king doth keepe his Reuels here to night. Take heede the Queene come not within his ſight.
  • Always look after that girl, doc. She's a queen!

Source: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0

Used as a crossword answer4 curated clues

01Chess royal piece5 letters
02Female monarch5 letters
03Royal woman5 letters
04Female ruler5 letters

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