Queen of Hearts

Croquet-playing tyrant

The Queen of Hearts is a playing card, one of four queens in a standard deck.

In Lewis Carroll's *Alice's Adventures in Wonderland*, the Queen of Hearts is the tyrannical ruler famous for shouting Off with their heads!

The phrase "queen of hearts" also describes a woman who captures many admirers: She was the queen of hearts at every party.

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Lewis Carroll · playing · sovereign · Cheshire Cat · croquet · Tim Burton · ruler · Disney · beheading · majesty · royal court · Alice in Wonderland · tyranny · courtly love · joker · crown · deck · intimidating

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Opposites
card rank/status

Queen of HeartsJoker

Gotham's chaos-loving nemesis

literary/cultural archetype

Queen of HeartsAlice

Common female name

fairy godmother · Snow White · Mary Poppins · Dorothy Gale · Cinderella

SYMBOLIC ROLE (beloved figure)

Queen of Heartsheartbreaker

One who causes romantic anguish

ice queen · cold fish · villainess · femme fatale · black widow

Family

queen, queens, queenly, queenship, heart, hearts, hearty, heartily, heartless

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Top 200,000
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Known to kids · Used worldwide · Timeless · Concrete · Everyday, not technical · Rated G