Queens
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English
Proper noun
Queens (plural Queenses)
- A surname.
Noun
Queens
Proper noun
Queens
Proper noun
Queens
- 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.
- Ellipsis of Queens County, a county of New York which is coterminous with the borough of Queens.
- (Oxford University slang) Misspelling of Queen's, referring to the Queen's College, Oxford.
- (Cambridge University slang) Misspelling of Queens', referring to Queens' College, Cambridge.
- (Canada, slang) Misspelling of Queen's, referring to Queen's University, Kingston
Translations
borough of New York