- gwena'' (woman) via Old English ''cwén'' (woman, wife, queen). ''Cf.'' Old Norse ''kvenna'' (woman), Gothic ''qens'' (wife), Greek ''gynē'' (woman), Russian ''zhena'', Sanskrit ''jani''. It has many meanings:
- Queen Regnant , a female monarch
- Queen Consort , the wife of a king
- Queen Dowager , a woman who was queen consort but whose husband has died or abdicated, someone else having become monarch
- Queen Mother , a woman who was queen consort but whose husband has died or abdicated, her son or daughter having become monarch
- Queen (insect) , the only female insect in a hive or colony of social insects that is fertile and egg laying
- --- In particular: Queen Bee
- Queen (cat) , a female cat, usually one with a litter of kittens
- Queen (butterfly) , a butterfly species from the subfamily ''Danainae''
- Queens , a borough in New York City, New York
- Queen's University, Canada , a university in Kingston, Ontario, Canada
- Queens County, New Brunswick
- Queens County, Nova Scotia
- Queens County, Prince Edward Island
- Queen's (electoral District) , a disambiguation page for several electoral districts named "Queens" and "Queen's" in Canada
- Queens' College, Cambridge
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