Tsar vs Queen - What's the difference?

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Tsar is a related term of queen.

As a noun tsar

is (historical) an emperor of russia (before 1917) and of some south slavic kingdoms.

As a proper noun queen is

a title given to queens.

tsar

English

(wikipedia tsar)

Alternative forms

* czar, tzar, csar

Noun

(en noun)

(historical) An emperor of Russia (before 1917) and of some South Slavic kingdoms.

(figuratively) A person with great power; an autocrat.

(informal, politics, US) An appointed official tasked to regulate or oversee a specific area.

Usage notes

* (emperor of Russia) Officially, emperors after 1721 were styled imperator (); however, the latter is commonly applied to them as well.

Derived terms

* tsardom * tsarian * tsarism * tsarist

Usage notes

* Although commonly believed to mean specifically a Russian emperor, this is not necessarily the case. * The spelling (m) is the most common one in the US, especially in the figurative and informal senses. Scholarly literature prefers tsar .

Anagrams

* * * * English eponyms ----

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