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How to pronounce “queen”

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Pronunciation guide for queen

Learning goal: Practice the English pronunciation of queen with real speech in context.
Available examples: 8 YouTube examples
Real speech example: Exploring The World of Honey BeesWe have a worker, a drone, and a queen bee.
Definition summary: The wife, consort, or widow of a king.

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Exploring The World of Honey Bees

We have a worker, a drone, and a queen bee.

[Noun]
The wife, consort, or widow of a king.
A female monarch.
A woman whose pre-eminence, power, or forcefulness is comparable to that of a queen.
Something regarded as the greatest of its kind or as having pre-eminence or power comparable to that of a queen over a given area.
Referring to one of several items used in tabletop games:
A reproductive female insect in a hive, such as an ant, bee, termite or wasp.
(obsolete) A type of flatfish, specifically the lemon sole.
(rare) A queen apple.
(originally UK) A queen scallop.
(construction, obsolete) Ellipsis of queen post.
(now chiefly historical) A type of large roofing slate.
(LGBTQ slang, sometimes derogatory) A homosexual man, especially one regarded as effeminate.[1]
An adult female cat capable of breeding.
Ellipsis of queen olive.
(LGBTQ, slang) Ellipsis of drag queen.
(attributive, originally Canada, US) Pertaining to a queen-size bed or queen-size bedding.
A monarch butterfly (Danaus spp., especially Danaus gilippus).
[Verb]
(intransitive, obsolete) To act the part of a queen; to behave imperiously; to queen it.
(transitive) To make a queen or (figuratively) to give the status of a queen.
(chess) To promote a pawn to a queen.
(beekeeping) To be the queen bee of a colony.
(beekeeping) To provide with a new queen bee.
(BDSM, slang, transitive, usually of a woman) To sit on a person’s face to receive oral sex, typically while straddling the person’s head.