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queens
/kwinz/
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What does queens mean?
noun
- plural of queen
- (slang) A pair of queens.
verb
- third-person singular simple present indicative of queen
More meanings (8)
noun
- plural of Queen
proper noun
- A surname.
- plural of Queen (a surname)
- A borough of New York City, New York, United States, one of five, situated on Long Island, north of Brooklyn, west of Nassau County.
- Ellipsis of Queens County: a county of New York, United States, which is coterminous with the borough of Queens.
- Misspelling of Queen's, referring to the Queen's College, Oxford.
- Misspelling of Queens', referring to Queens' College, Cambridge.
- (slang) Misspelling of Queen's, referring to Queen's University, Kingston.
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IPA pronunciation
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“Some women can do that sort of thing, but you—you can love as queens did, in the old time.”
First he offered her his smaller wares—the busts of kings and queens, then a minstrel, then a winged Cupid.
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There was a ruined summer-house of white marble in the center of the terrace, built for queens dead a hundred years ago.
But the black King arrives there in the same number of moves, so that he can capture the Pawn the moment he queens.
A boy hears a military band play on the field at night, and he has kings and queens, and famous chivalry palpably before him.