ice queen noun2 •A beautiful but heartless woman.Miss O'Neil's duplicitous power-mad ice queen epitomizes cruel hauteur with a streak of lethal saccharine—she is a nightmare stepmother. — 1986 •(informal) A female ice-skating champion.This time, she was beaten by 16-year-old Tanja Szewczenko, who is threatening to usurp the two-time Olympic champion, Katarina Witt, as Germany's ice queen. — 1993 formsice queens