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  • A borough of New York City in southeast New York on western Long Island. Queens was first settled by the Dutch in 1635 and became part of New York City in 1898.

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  • proper noun One of the five boroughs of New York, New York, situated on Long Island, north of Brooklyn, west of Nassau county.
  • proper noun Queens county, NY; the county that the borough of Queens resides in.

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Examples

  • There are no books on Waka 'right now, but a good book on ancient Maya kings and queens is Chronicle of the Maya Kings and Queens by Simon Martin and Nikolai Grube (Thames and Hudson, 2000).

    Interactive Dig Waka' - Bulletin Board 2003

  • Any earthly queen, even though she were not Byzantine in taste, loved colour; and the truest of queens -- the only true Queen of Queens -- had richer and finer taste in colour than the queens of fifty earthly kingdoms, as you will see when we come to the immense effort to gratify her in the glass of her windows.

    Mont-Saint-Michel and Chartres Henry Adams 1878

  • We have histories of the queens who have reigned in their own right, like Queen Elizabeth, and of Queens

    Studies in Literature and History Alfred Comyn Lyall 1873

  • "Hummus queens," a 24-year-old grocery clerk from Queens named Hilal joked at one of the parties.

    NYT > Home Page By CHADWICK MOORE 2011

  • "Hummus queens," a 24-year-old grocery clerk from Queens named Hilal joked at one of the parties.

    NYT > Home Page By CHADWICK MOORE 2011

  • I always say, Someday you play for kings and queens and then the next day you're in Queens.

    PopMatters Christian John Wikane 2009

  • QUEENS - An assistant principal at a school in Queens died Sunday night.

    wnyt.com - Capital Region News, Weather and Sports from NEWSCHANNEL 13 2009

  • FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE NEW YORK DEALER CREDITS VAUTO FOR PRE-OWNED SALES HONORS QUEENS, N.Y. -- Paragon Honda in Queens, N.Y., and Paragon Acura in Woodside, N.Y., credit their use of vAuto for leading both of them to achieve top national status for 2008 deliveries of certified pre-owned vehicles.

    Automotive Headlines 2009

  • QUEENS, N.Y. - A Queens, N.Y., man has won $1,500 in the lottery, thanks to Bernie Madoff's prison number -- 61727-054.

    KXAN TV 2009

  • QUEENS (WABC) -- Several businesses in Queens were destroyed overnight when a fast - moving fire moved through.

    Queens Crap 2008

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