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- adjective Resembling a
queen (female monarch) or some aspect of one;regal ,majestic . - adjective zoology Resembling a queen (reproductive female animal) or some aspect of one.
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- adjective having the rank of or resembling or befitting a queen
Etymologies
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Examples
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Mother As Goddess/Meeting with Goddess: The ultimate trial is often represented as a marriage between the hero and a queenlike, or mother-like figure.
Christopher Cocca: Updating The Hero Myth Of Barack Obama Christopher Cocca 2011
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Mother As Goddess/Meeting with Goddess: The ultimate trial is often represented as a marriage between the hero and a queenlike, or mother-like figure.
Christopher Cocca: Updating The Hero Myth Of Barack Obama Christopher Cocca 2011
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Bringing up the rear are Marley and Daria, and, queenlike in her stroller, Hypatia.
Confetti Confidential Holly McQueen 2010
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Bringing up the rear are Marley and Daria, and, queenlike in her stroller, Hypatia.
Confetti Confidential Holly McQueen 2010
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In a niche befitting her iconic status here, "Madame Cézanne in a Red Armchair" (c. 1877) presides, queenlike, over her varied offspring: Picasso's 1932 portrait of his lover Marie-Thérèse and Matisse's "Woman in Blue" (1937) reflect the persistent presence of Cézanne's inscrutable muse in early modernist circles.
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Interestingly, he often meets a goddess/queenlike/mother-type figure.
"Did Palin Help McCain Among White Women?" Ann Althouse 2008
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Interestingly, he often meets a goddess/queenlike/mother-type figure.
"Did Palin Help McCain Among White Women?" Ann Althouse 2008
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You discern, not without interest, across that dim Révolutionary Bulletin itself, how she bears herself queenlike.
Archive 2007-08-19 de Brantigny........................ 2007
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You discern, not without interest, across that dim Révolutionary Bulletin itself, how she bears herself queenlike.
"Trial of Marie-Antoinette." by Thomas Carlyle de Brantigny........................ 2007
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I suppose she knew I was looking at her; but she showed always a queenlike indifference about what people might think or observe.
Wylder's Hand 2003
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