Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun The state or rank of a queen; the dignity of character becoming a queen.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun The state, personality, or character of a queen; queenliness.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun The state, rank, or status of a queen.
  • noun The dignity of character becoming a queen.

Etymologies

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From queen +‎ -hood.

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Examples

  • I who have ‘gone the gamut’ from an almost angry rejection of my dark skin … to a surprised queenhood in the new black sun — am qualified to enter at least the kindergarten of new consciousness now.

    June « 2006 « Bill Ayers 2006

  • I who have ‘gone the gamut’ from an almost angry rejection of my dark skin … to a surprised queenhood in the new black sun — am qualified to enter at least the kindergarten of new consciousness now.

    TRUDGE TOWARD FREEDOM 2006

  • They would typically have two routes to queenhood - either be the heir to the throne and reign in the own name, like QE II, or marry into it.

    "Would you like to sit in my special princess throne so I can sparkle your teeth?" Ann Althouse 2006

  • This queen, she found was very sad, and very longing, and very lonely, three things she thought queenhood exempt from, sadness, and longing and loneliness.

    Suzanna Stirs the Fire Emily Calvin Blake

  • "Is that to be lifted from me in these the full years of my queenhood?"

    Suzanna Stirs the Fire Emily Calvin Blake

  • She herself was not rich, but her stepfather, a Chicago merchant, was enormously wealthy, and she was wondering whether, to give her a chance of possible queenhood, David Collis might not open his heart and his purse.

    The Guests Of Hercules M. Leone Bracker 1901

  • And now, forsooth, was her queenhood forgotten, and better and better to her seemed Christopher's valiant love; and the meeting in the hall of the eventide was so sweet to her, that she might do little but stand trembling whiles Christopher came up to her, and Joanna's trim feet were speeding her over the floor to meet her man, that she might be a sharer in his deeds of the day.

    Child Christopher and Goldilind the Fair 1895

  • Whether it is true, as I hear, that the air of London is hurtful to her, giving her severe headaches, or that the scenes of her childhood and early queenhood, and of her marriage, are too much for her, and heart - ache is the matter, I know not; but it is undeniable that the Queen prefers any one of her other homes to Buckingham Palace.

    Queen Victoria Her Girlhood And Womanhood Greenwood, Grace 1883

  • And now, forsooth, was her queenhood forgotten, and better and better to her seemed

    Child Christopher and Goldilind the Fair William Morris 1865

  • Whether it is true, as I hear, that the air of London is hurtful to her, giving her severe headaches, or that the scenes of her childhood and early queenhood, and of her marriage, are too much for her, and heart - ache is the matter, I know not; but it is undeniable that the Queen prefers any one of her other homes to Buckingham Palace.

    Queen Victoria, her girlhood and womanhood Grace Greenwood 1863

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