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QUEEN OF ENGLAND

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QUEEN OF ENGLAND (noun)
  The noun QUEEN OF ENGLAND has 1 sense:

1. the sovereign ruler of Englandplay

  Familiarity information: QUEEN OF ENGLAND used as a noun is very rare.


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QUEEN OF ENGLAND (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

The sovereign ruler of England

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Hypernyms ("Queen of England" is a kind of...):

female monarch; queen; queen regnant (a female sovereign ruler)

Instance hyponyms:

Anne (Queen of England and Scotland and Ireland; daughter if James II and the last of the Stuart monarchs; in 1707 she was the last English ruler to exercise the royal veto over parliament (1665-1714))

Elizabeth; Elizabeth I (Queen of England from 1558 to 1603; daughter of Henry VIII and Anne Boleyn; she succeeded Mary I (who was a Catholic) and restored Protestantism to England; during her reign Mary Queen of Scots was executed and the Spanish Armada was defeated; her reign was marked by prosperity and literary genius (1533-1603))

Elizabeth; Elizabeth II (daughter of George VI who became the Queen of England and Northern Ireland in 1952 on the death of her father (1926-))

Grey; Lady Jane Grey (Queen of England for nine days in 1553; she was quickly replaced by Mary Tudor and beheaded for treason (1537-1554))

Bloody Mary; Mary I; Mary Tudor (daughter of Henry VIII and Catherine of Aragon who was Queen of England from 1553 to 1558; she was the wife of Philip II of Spain and when she restored Roman Catholicism to England many Protestants were burned at the stake as heretics (1516-1558))

Mary II (Queen of England and Scotland and Ireland; she was the eldest daughter of James II and ruled jointly with her husband William III (1662-1694))

Queen Victoria; Victoria (queen of Great Britain and Ireland and empress of India from 1837 to 1901; the last Hanoverian ruler of England (1819-1901))


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