queenhood

[ kween-hood ]

noun

1. the state, dignity, or rank of a queen.

Word History and Origins

Origin of queenhood¹

First recorded in 1855–60; queen + -hood

Example Sentences

Earlier this year, Armitage wrote another poem, Queenhood, to mark the Queen's Platinum Jubilee.

From BBC

One sequence in the film — a truly fun play on Brazil, complete with Terry Gilliam cameo — follows Jupiter as she’s bounced around what feels like the intergalactic DMV, desperately trying to get her genetic queenhood authenticated.

From The Verge

Actress Cornell, in staking her queenhood last week on kingly love, Roman honor and Andre Obey, did it with both eyes open.

From Time Magazine Archive

The queenhood, therefore, of personal and domestic interference lies with wives, and they know how to use the prerogative they assume.

From Project Gutenberg

She herself was not rich, but her stepfather, a Chicago merchant, was enormously wealthy, and she was wondering whether, to give her a chance of possible queenhood, David Collis might not open his heart and his purse.

From Project Gutenberg