Usually means: Mythical fairy queen; inspires dreams.
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We found 9 dictionaries that define the word Queen Mab:

General (6 matching dictionaries)
  1. queen mab: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. Queen Mab: Collins English Dictionary
  3. Queen Mab: Infoplease Dictionary
  4. queen mab: Dictionary.com
  5. Queen Mab (disambiguation), Queen Mab (poem), Queen Mab: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  6. Queen Mab: TheFreeDictionary.com

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Mab, Queen: Encyclopedia

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Queen Mab, Queen Mab: Urban Dictionary

Definitions from Wikipedia (Queen Mab)

noun:  a fairy referred to in William Shakespeare's play Romeo and Juliet, in which the character Mercutio famously describes her as "the fairies' midwife", a miniature creature who rides her chariot (which is driven by a team of atom-sized creatures) over the bodies of sleeping humans during the nighttime, thus helping them "give birth" to their dreams.
noun:  Queen Mab; A Philosophical Poem; With Notes, published in 1813 in nine cantos with seventeen notes, is the first large poetic work written by Percy Bysshe Shelley, the English Romantic poet.
noun:  one of the first pair of English-bred Thoroughbred horses imported to the Province of Maryland in 1747 by Provincial Governor of Maryland, Samuel Ogle.
noun:  a fairy in Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet, and later in other poetry, literature, drama and cinema.


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