queue – English noun declension

English noun forms of queue

Noun: queue
Singularqueue
Pluralqueues

Sample Sentences

  • I was absent-minded at the moment and was last in the queue. [1916, John Buchan, “Chapter 5”, in Greenmantle:]
  • In a report published on October 31, Transport Focus said that a number of train companies were unable to convince it about their ability to sell a full range of tickets, handle cash payments, and avoid excessive queues at ticket machines. [2023 November 15, 'Industry Insider', “Outbreak of common sense”, in RAIL, number 996, page 68:]
  • George Osborne said: “In terms of getting an international trade deal with the United States, we would have to get to the back of the queue.” And Obama said: “Would it be helpful if I said that?”[…]. So he used the words in the press conference, and people said: “Well, that sounds like somebody’s told you to say that because you used the word ‘queue’ instead of ‘line’.” [2026 June 23, “‘Geldof started flicking Vs at Farage’: the story of the Brexit campaign, told by those with a front-row seat”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:]
  • 2005, David Flanagan, Java in a Nutshell, p. 234,
  • Queue implementations are commonly based on insertion order as in first-in, first-out (FIFO) queues or last-in, first-out queues (LIFO queues are also known as stacks).
  • HESSE: Az., a lion, queue fourchée, rampt., barry of ten, arg. and gu., crowned, or, and holding in his dexter paw a sword, ppr., hilt and pommel, gold. [1863, Charles Boutell, A Manual of Heraldry, page 369:]
  • In the morning and evening, spruce Chinamen stroll about or chat at each other's doors, in blue trousers, white jacket, and a queue into which red silk is plaited till it reaches almost to their heels. [1869, Alfred Russel Wallace, The Malay Archipelago, volume II, London: Macmillan and Co., page 213:]
  • […], there were seated astraddle the whole hundred of the baronet's musqueteers, each engaged in plaiting into a queue the hair of the man who sat in front of him. [1889, A[rthur] Conan Doyle, chapter XIX, in Micah Clarke: […], London: Longmans, Green, and Co […], →OCLC:]
  • A large number of loyal officials, rather than shave the front part of the head and wear the Manchu queue, voluntarily shaved the whole head, […] [1912, Herbert Allen Giles, China and the Manchus, Chapter III — Shun Chih]
  • Caparisoned for a week in purple velvet knee-length pantaloons, a red silk jacket with buckles of shiny brass, and a white goat's-hair wig which culminated behind in a saucy queue, I must have presented an exotic sight […] [1967, William Styron, The Confessions of Nat Turner, Vintage, published 2004, page 176:]

Etymology

From Middle English queue, quew, qwew, couwe, from Anglo-Norman queue, keu and Old French cöe, cue, coe (“tail”), from Vulgar Latin cōda, from Latin cauda. See also Middle French queu, cueue. Doublet of coda and cola. See: Middle English Nouns 'queue', Latin Nouns 'cauda'.

Verbs referencing "queue"

Irish Nouns ciú.