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Queens

 (kwēnz)
A borough of New York City in southeast New York on western Long Island. Queens was first settled by the Dutch in 1635 and became part of New York City in 1898.
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Queens

(kwiːnz)
n
(Placename) a borough of E New York City, on Long Island. Pop: 2 225 486 (2003 est)
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Queens

(kwinz)

n.
a borough of E New York City, on Long Island. 1,891,325; 113.1 sq. mi. (295 sq. km).
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Noun1.Queens - a borough of New York City
Greater New York, New York, New York City - the largest city in New York State and in the United States; located in southeastern New York at the mouth of the Hudson river; a major financial and cultural center
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References in classic literature ?
Next came the guests, mostly Kings and Queens, and among them Alice recognised the White Rabbit: it was talking in a hurried nervous manner, smiling at everything that was said, and went by without noticing her.
`I heard the Queen say only yesterday you deserved to be beheaded!'
'You SHOULD have said,' '"It's extremely kind of you to tell me all this"--however, we'll suppose it said--the Seventh Square is all forest--however, one of the Knights will show you the way--and in the Eighth Square we shall be Queens together, and it's all feasting and fun!' Alice got up and curtseyed, and sat down again.
Alice looked round eagerly, and found that it was the Red Queen. 'She's grown a good deal!' was her first remark.
"Thou art welcome, Lockesley," said the Queen, "And all thy good yeomandree."
"I am Richard Partington, page to Her Majesty, Queen Eleanor," answered the lad with dignity; and again the sound of his voice troubled Robin sorely.
There was a secret communication between the cardinal's apartments and those of the queen; and through this corridor* Mazarin passed whenever he wished to visit Anne of Austria.
"The prime minister," she said, "is obliged in these unsettled days to inform the queen of all that is happening from time to time, without exciting the curiosity or remarks of the court."
The queen is too virtuous; and besides, loves your Majesty too well."
It was the middle of winter, when the broad flakes of snow were falling around, that the queen of a country many thousand miles off sat working at her window.
When the time for the young Prince's christening came the King chose as godmother a neighbouring Princess, so celebrated for her wisdom and goodness that she was commonly called 'the Good Queen.' She named the baby Alphege, and from that moment took him to her heart.
Then he and his Queen and all the court left the place, but the King's heart was brimming full of wrath.