# queens

Pronunciation: say "KWEENZ" /kwiːnz/

## Noun

1. Plural of queen. — plural of queen
   - Simple: Plural of queen. Use this form when you mean more than one queen.
   - _The history book traced the reigns of several powerful queens._
   - _Two queens cannot legally start on adjacent squares in this puzzle._
3. A pair of queens held by a player, especially as a starting hand in poker. *(slang)*
   - Simple: A pair of queen cards held in a game of poker.
   - _Looking down at queens, she shoved her entire stack into the middle._
   - _He slow-played his queens until the turn, hoping to trap an aggressive rival._

## Verb

2. Third-person singular simple present of queen. — third-person singular simple present indicative of queen
   - Simple: Third-person singular of queen. Use this form with he, she, or it.
   - _Whenever she queens a pawn, her opponent tends to resign._
   - _The grandmaster queens his passed pawn and converts the advantage cleanly._

Source: DictionaryAI, https://dictionaryai.com/define/queens (written from Wiktionary data, CC BY-SA 4.0: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/).