queen vs royalty

queen

noun
  • Something regarded as the greatest of its kind or as having pre-eminence or power comparable to that of a queen over a given area. 

  • A queen apple. 

  • An adult female cat capable of breeding. 

  • A monarch butterfly (Danaus spp., especially Danaus gilippus). 

  • A homosexual man, especially one regarded as effeminate. 

  • Pertaining to a queen-size bed or queen-size bedding. 

  • The Virgin Mary (especially in formulations such as Queen of Heaven, Queen of Glory). 

  • A chess piece that, under contemporary rules, is the most powerful, able to move any number of spaces horizontally, vertically, or diagonally. 

  • s around the queen (sense 6) of the hive, marked with a pink dot]] A reproductive female insect in a hive, such as an ant, bee, termite or wasp. 

  • A queen scallop. 

  • An excellent woman. 

  • A woman pre-eminent in a particular group or field. 

  • An attractive woman; a female partner in a romantic relationship. 

  • A type of large roofing slate. 

  • The wife, consort, or widow of a king. 

  • A playing card with a depiction of a queen on it, generally ranking next below the king and above the jack in a given suit. 

  • A red disk that is the most valuable piece in the Asian game of carrom. 

  • A female monarch. 

verb
  • To provide with a new queen bee. 

  • To make a queen or (figuratively) to give the status of a queen. 

  • To promote a pawn to a queen. 

  • To sit on a person’s face to receive oral sex, typically while straddling the person’s head. 

  • To be the queen bee of a colony. 

royalty

noun
  • The rank, status, power or authority of a monarch. 

  • Payment made to a writer, composer, inventor etc for the sale or use of intellectual property, invention etc. 

  • The payment received by an owner of real property for exploitation of mineral rights in the property. 

  • Someone in a privileged position. 

  • A king and a queen as a starting hand in Texas hold 'em. 

  • The bounds of a royal burgh. 

  • A royal right or prerogative, such as the exploitation of a natural resource; the granting of such a right; payment received for such a right. 

  • People of royal rank, plus their families, treated as a group. 

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