queens
IPA: kwˈinz
Root Word: Queens
noun
- A surname.
- A borough of New York City, New York, United States, one of five, situated on Long Island, north of Brooklyn, west of Nassau county.
- (poker slang) A pair of queens.
- Ellipsis of Queens County, a county of New York which is coterminous with the borough of Queens. [(historical) The former name for County Laois in Ireland (used from the mid 16th century till 1922).]
- (Oxford University slang) Misspelling of Queen's, referring to the Queen's College, Oxford.
- (Cambridge University slang) Misspelling of Queens', referring to Queens' College, Cambridge.
- (Canada, slang) Misspelling of Queen's, referring to Queen's University, Kingston
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