Queens
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[edit]Queens (plural Queenses)
- A surname.
Noun
[edit]Queens
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[edit]Queens
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[edit]Queens
- 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.
- Ellipsis of Queens County: a county of New York, United States, which is coterminous with the borough of Queens.
- (Oxford University slang) {{missp|en|Queen's|addl=referring to the Queen's College, Oxford.
- (Cambridge University slang) {{missp|en|Queens'|addl=referring to Queens' College, Cambridge.
- (Canada, slang) {{missp|en|Queen's|addl=referring to Queen's University, Kingston.
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[edit]borough of New York
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