Queens

See also: queens

English

Proper noun

Queens

1. One of the five boroughs of New York, New York, 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. Queens County, NY, which is coterminous with the borough of Queens.

Translations

borough of New York

• Chinese:

  Cantonese: please add this translation if you can

  Mandarin: 皇后區 (zh), 皇后区 (zh) (Huánghòuqū), 昆斯區, 昆斯区 (Kūnsīqū)

• Marathi: क्वीन्स (kvīnsa)
• Russian: Квинс m (Kvins)