QUEENS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Queens mean? 

• QUEENS (noun)
  The noun QUEENS has 1 sense:

1. a borough of New York City

  Familiarity information: QUEENS used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• QUEENS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A borough of New York City

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Instance hypernyms:

borough (one of the administrative divisions of a large city)

Holonyms ("Queens" is a part of...):

Greater New York; New York; New York City (the largest city in New York State and in the United States; located in southeastern New York at the mouth of the Hudson river; a major financial and cultural center)

 Context examples 

Honey bee queens, which lay all of the eggs in a hive, commonly last about three years in managed colonies before beekeepers replace them as reproduction slows.

(Species Shifts in the Honey Bee Microbiome Differ with Age and Hive Role, U.S. Department of Agriculture)

I'd rather see you poor men's wives, if you were happy, beloved, contented, than queens on thrones, without self-respect and peace.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

Agnes laughed again at her own penetration, and told me that if I were faithful to her in my confidence she thought she should keep a little register of my violent attachments, with the date, duration, and termination of each, like the table of the reigns of the kings and queens, in the History of England.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

She had never been tormented by womanhood, and she had lived in a dreamland of Tennysonian poesy, dense even to the full significance of that delicate master's delicate allusions to the grossnesses that intrude upon the relations of queens and knights.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

Queens age biologically at different rates depending on their colony’s exposure to a variety of environmental stresses, which can include available nutrition and exposure to temperature extremes.

(Species Shifts in the Honey Bee Microbiome Differ with Age and Hive Role, U.S. Department of Agriculture)

Queens of society can't get on without money, so you mean to make a good match, and start in that way?

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

But in recent years, queens have been failing more quickly.

(Species Shifts in the Honey Bee Microbiome Differ with Age and Hive Role, U.S. Department of Agriculture)

Evidently some wild wag of an oculist set them there to fatten his practice in the borough of Queens, and then sank down himself into eternal blindness or forgot them and moved away.

(The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald)