Queens

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See also: queens, Queen's, and Queens'

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Queens (plural Queenses)

  1. A surname.

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Queens

  1. plural of Queen

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Queens

  1. plural of Queen (a surname)

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Queens

  1. A borough of New York City, New York, United States, one of five, situated on Long Island, north of Brooklyn, west of Nassau county.
    • 2016 February 20, “Obituary: Antonin Scalia: Always right”, in The Economist:
      Though he was not the only New Yorker on the bench, he was the only spoiled-rotten Italian kid brought up proud and scrapping in Queens and familiar with rude Sicilian gestures.
  2. Ellipsis of Queens County, a county of New York which is coterminous with the borough of Queens.
  3. (Oxford University slang) Misspelling of Queen's, referring to the Queen's College, Oxford.
  4. (Cambridge University slang) Misspelling of Queens', referring to Queens' College, Cambridge.
  5. (Canada, slang) Misspelling of Queen's, referring to Queen's University, Kingston

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