Queen vs Lady - What's the difference?

In lang=en terms the difference between queen and lady

is that queen is to promote a pawn, usually to a queen while lady is a queen the playing card.

As nouns the difference between queen and lady

is that queen is a female monarch. Example: Queen Victorialady is The mistress of a household.

As proper nouns the difference between queen and lady

is that queen is a title given to queens while Lady is the title for the (primary) female deity in female-centered religions.

As a verb queen

is to make a queen.

queen

English

(wikipedia queen)

Noun

(en noun)

A female monarch. Example: (Queen Victoria)

The wife or widow of a king.

(chess) The most powerful piece, able to move any number of spaces horizontally, vertically, or diagonally.

(card games) A playing card with the picture of a queen on its face, the twelfth card in a given suit.

A powerful or forceful female person.

(derogatory, slang) An effeminate male homosexual. See drag queen.

A reproductive female animal in a hive, such as an ant, bee, termite or wasp.

An adult female cat valued for breeding. See also tom.

Synonyms

* (female monarch) queen regnant * (wife of a king) queen consort

Derived terms

* drag queen * drama queen * ice queen * May Queen / queen of the May * prom queen * queencraft * queenhood * Queenie * queenlike * queenly * Queen of Sheba * Queen's English * queenship * requeen

Verb

To make a queen.

(obsolete) To act the part of a queen; to queen it.

(Shakespeare)

(chess) To promote a pawn, usually to a queen.

(BDSM, slang, transitive, of a female) To sit on the face of (a partner) to receive oral sex.

* 2000 , "Lorelei", The Mistress Manual: The Good Girl's Guide to Female Dominance

Try Queening him. Have him lie on his back while you sit on his face (make sure he has an airway through either his mouth or his nose).

* 2007 , Madelynne Ellis, Dark Designs

...not Eloise, sat queening him. He couldn't wait to tip her velvet. He wanted to come, but not here, with these three. It was time to extract himself.

* 2012 , Yolanda Celbridge, The Castle of Maldona

She saw his pink tongue flickering on Clare's exposed nympha as she queened him, her love juices shining on his chin and throat

lady

English

Noun

(wikipedia lady) (ladies)

(historical) The mistress of a household.

, chapter=16 , passage="he said to her, From whence comest thou Hagar, the servantess of Sarai (Sarai’s slave-girl), and whither goest thou? Which answered, I flee from the face of Sarai, my lady.”}}

A woman of breeding or higher class, a woman of authority.

* {{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham), title=(The China Governess)

, chapter=6 citation , passage=‘[…] I remember a lady coming to inspect St. Mary's Home where I was brought up and seeing us all in our lovely Elizabethan uniforms we were so proud of, and bursting into tears all over us because “it was wicked to dress us like charity children”. […]’.}}

* Lowell

lord or lady of high degree

* Shakespeare

Of all these bounds, even from this line to this, / We make thee lady .

(polite, or, used by children) A woman: an adult female human.

(in the plural)

, title=(The Celebrity), chapter=4 , passage=The Celebrity, by arts unknown, induced Mrs. Judge Short and two other ladies to call at Mohair on an afternoon when Mr. Cooke was trying a trotter on the track. The three returned wondering and charmed with Mrs. Cooke; they were sure she had had no hand in the furnishing of that atrocious house.}}

(slang)

Toilets intended for use by women.

(familiar) A wife or girlfriend; a sweetheart.

* (William Shakespeare), (Romeo and Juliet)

But soft, what light through yonder window breaks...? It is my lady , O it is my love!

(Goldsmith)

A woman to whom the particular homage of a knight was paid; a woman to whom one is devoted or bound.

* Waller

The soldier here his wasted store supplies, / And takes new valour from his lady's eyes.

(slang) A queen (the playing card).

(dated, attributive, with a professional title) Who is a woman.

(Wicca) .

The triturating apparatus in the stomach of a lobster, consisting of calcareous plates; so called from a fancied resemblance to a seated female figure.

Derived terms

* bag lady * charlady * dragon lady * the First Lady * forelady * gray lady * ladies and gentlemen * lady's bedstraw * lady's eardrop * lady's laces * lady's man * lady's mantle * lady's slipper * lady's thistle * lady's thumb * lady abbess * lady beetle * lady bird/lady-bird/ladybird * Lady Bountifel * lady bug/lady-bug/ladybug * Lady Campbell * lady chapel * ladyclock * lady crab * Lady Day * lady fern/lady-fern * lady's finger * ladyfinger * lady friend * Lady Godiva * lady-in-waiting * lady killer, lady-killer, ladykiller * ladylike * ladylove * Lady Macbeth strategy * Lady McLeod * lady of leisure * lady of pleasure * lady of the house * lady of the night * lady or tiger * ladyship * lady smock * lady who lunches * landlady * leading lady * lollipop lady * lunch lady/lunch-lady/lunchlady * m'lady/malady/milady * naked lady * no way to treat a lady * old lady * one fat lady * Our Lady * painted lady * Pink Lady/pink lady * saleslady * Tupperware lady * two fat ladies * saleslady * white lady * young lady * (lady)

References

* Weisenberg, Michael (2000) The Official Dictionary of Poker. MGI/Mike Caro University. ISBN 978-1880069523

Statistics

* English terms of address 1000 English basic words ----