MAHARANEE Synonyms

• a nation's ruler or head of state usually by hereditary right

• large migratory American butterfly having deep orange wings with black and white markings; the larvae feed on milkweed

• a female member of a royal family other than the queen (especially the daughter of a sovereign)

• the only fertile female in a colony of social insects such as bees and ants and termites; its function is to lay eggs

• a female sovereign ruler

• the wife or widow of a king

• something personified as a woman who is considered the best or most important of her kind

• a competitor who holds a preeminent position

• offensive term for a homosexual man

• one of four face cards in a deck bearing a picture of a queen

• (chess) the most powerful piece

• an especially large mole rat and the only member of a colony of naked mole rats to bear offspring which are sired by only a few males

• female cat

• promote to a queen, as of a pawn in chess

• become a queen

• a person who rules or commands

• measuring stick consisting of a strip of wood or metal or plastic with a straight edge that is used for drawing straight lines and measuring lengths

• a great rani; a princess in India or the wife of a maharaja