The Clue
Pageant winner (5 letter answer)
The Answer
QUEEN
Tags
Notes
The answer QUEEN is seen occasionally, appearing about once every 700 puzzles.
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Definition
QUEEN as a noun:
1. the only fertile female in a colony of social insects such as bees and ants and termites; its function is to lay eggs
2. (queen, queen regnant, female monarch) = a female sovereign ruler
3. the wife or widow of a king
4. something personified as a woman who is considered the best or most important of her kind; "Paris is the queen of cities"; "the queen of ocean liners"
5. (king, queen, world-beater) = a competitor who holds a preeminent position
6. (fagot, faggot, fag, fairy, nance, pansy, queen, queer, poof, poove, pouf) = offensive terms for an openly homosexual man
7. one of four face cards in a deck bearing a picture of a queen
8. (chess) the most powerful piece
9. (queen, queen mole rat) = an especially large mole rat and the only member of a colony of naked mole rats to bear offspring which are sired by only a few males
10. (tabby, queen) = female cat
QUEEN as a verb:
1. promote to a queen, as of a pawn in chess
2. become a queen; "her pawn queened"