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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, United States, which is coterminous with the borough of Queens.
  3. (Oxford University slang) {{missp|en|Queen's|addl=referring to the Queen's College, Oxford.
  4. (Cambridge University slang) {{missp|en|Queens'|addl=referring to Queens' College, Cambridge.
  5. (Canada, slang) {{missp|en|Queen's|addl=referring to Queen's University, Kingston.

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