Queen and Worker

Queen

Queen noun - A usually glamorous woman who is preeminent in her field of activity.

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Worker and queen are semantically related in animal topic. In some cases you can use "Worker" instead a noun "Queen".

Nearby Words: queenly, queening, Queenie

Worker noun - A person who does very hard or dull work.

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Queen and worker are semantically related in animal topic. Sometimes you can use "Queen" instead a noun "Worker".

Nearby Words: work, working, worked, workplace, workmate

human	human queen	human worker
old	old queen	old worker
best	best queen	best worker
better	better queen	better worker
Other adjectives: normal, dead, single, real, male, young, new, former, last, older, unnamed.

It wouldn't have been any harder for the writers to get it RIGHT by creating a young female worker being instructed by the queen and a worker aunt or older sister.

Source: Insect Gender-Bender
When a fantasy or alien race has specialized castes with physical dimorphism, as with worker and queen ants or bees, that's Hive Caste System.

Source: Fantastic Caste System
Greater Termites have a queen who controls all of the worker and soldier termites in the nest.

Source: Hive Queen

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