Is queen a common or proper noun?

Answer 1

The noun 'queen' is a common noun, a word for any queen of anything.

A proper noun is the name of a specific person, place, thing, or a title; for example:

• Queen Elizabeth II orQueen Latifah
• Queen Creek, AZ85142
• The Queen River, NH or TheQueen River, Tasmania, Australia
• Dairy Queen (American Dairy Queen Corp., Minneapolis, MN)
• "The African Queen", 1951 movie with Humphrey Bogart and Katherine Hepburn

Answer 2

The noun 'queen' (lower case q) is a common noun, a general word for female sovereign; a general word for the wife or widow of a king; a general word for a woman or thing regarded as at the top in a particular field; a general word for female bees, ants, and termites whose purpose is to lay eggs; a general word for the most powerful Chess piece for each player; a general word for a playing card bearing the picture of a female monarch; a word for any queen of any kind.

A proper noun is the name or title of a specific person, place, or thing; for example, Queen Latifah (American singer/actress) or the RMS Queen Mary (ocean liner permanently docked in Long Beach, California).

A proper noun is always capitalized.

Answer 3

It depends on whether you're using it as part of a name or title, like Queen Elizabeth or Queen Mary. If you're just using it as a regular noun it is not proper, like "The queen is going to appear in the town square this afternoon."

Answer 4

Common noun