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Definition of Queenlike
1. Adjective. Having the rank of or resembling or befitting a queen. "Rosetti's queenly portraits of women"
Definition of Queenlike
1. Adjective. Resembling a queen (female monarch) or some aspect of one; regal, majestic. ¹
2. Adjective. (zoology) Resembling a queen (reproductive female animal) or some aspect of one. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Queenlike
Literary usage of Queenlike
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Robert Montgomery and His Reviewers: With Some Remarks on the Present State by Edward Clarkson (1830)
"... much of a ' queenlike' superiority in the earth; that, however much larger
the other planets may be, they are not habitable by any living competency of ..."
2. The Works of Thomas Carlyle: (complete). by Thomas Carlyle (1897)
"Reader, mark that queenlike burghers-woman: beautiful, Amazonian-graceful to the
eye; more so to the mind. Unconscious of her worth (as all worth is), ..."
3. The French Revolution: A History by Thomas Carlyle (1892)
"Reader, mark that queenlike burgher-woman: beautiful, Amazonian-graceful to the
eye ; more so to the mind. Unconscious of her worth (as all worth is), ..."
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