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QUEEN REGNANT
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A female sovereign ruler
Synonyms:
female monarch; queen; queen regnant
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("queen regnant" is a kind of...):
female aristocrat (a woman who is an aristocrat)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "queen regnant"):
Queen of England (the sovereign ruler of England)
Instance hyponyms:
Cleopatra (beautiful and charismatic queen of Egypt; mistress of Julius Caesar and later of Mark Antony; killed herself to avoid capture by Octavian (69-30 BC))
Isabella; Isabella I; Isabella the Catholic; Queen Isabella (the queen of Castile whose marriage to Ferdinand of Aragon in 1469 marked the beginning of the modern state of Spain; they instituted the Spanish Inquisition in 1478 and sponsored the voyages of Christopher Columbus in 1492 (1451-1504))
Liliuokalani; Lydia Kamekeha Paki Liliuokalani (queen of the Hawaiian islands (1838-1917))
Mary Queen of Scots; Mary Stuart (queen of Scotland from 1542 to 1567; as a Catholic she was forced to abdicate in favor of her son and fled to England where she was imprisoned by Elizabeth I; when Catholic supporters plotted to put her on the English throne she was tried and executed for sedition (1542-1587))
Holonyms ("queen regnant" is a member of...):
royal family; royal house; royal line; royalty (royal persons collectively)
