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Definitions and meaning of crown

crown

Etymology 1

From Middle English coroune, from Anglo-Norman corone, from Latin corōna (“crown, wreath”), from Ancient Greek κορώνη (korṓnē). Doublet of corona, koruna, krone, krona, and króna. Displaced native Old English corenbēag (“crown”); and Middle English kinehelm, kynehelm, from Old English cynehelm (“crown”).

• (paper size): So called because originally watermarked with a crown.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation, US) IPA^(key): /kɹaʊn/
• Rhymes: -aʊn
• Homophone: crayon (some pronunciations)

Noun

crown (plural crowns)

2. A royal, imperial or princely headdress; a diadem.

   Synonyms: coronet, diadem
4. A wreath or band for the head, especially one given as reward of victory or a mark of honor.

   Synonyms: garland, wreath

6. (by extension) Any reward of victory or mark of honor.

   Synonyms: award, garland, honor, prize, wreath

8. Imperial or regal power, or those who wield it.

   Synonyms: monarchy, royalty

10. (metonymically) The sovereign (in a monarchy), as head of state.
12. (by extension, especially in law) The state, the government (headed by a monarch).
13. (old slang) The police (referring to Crown Victoria police cars).
15. The top part of something:
    2. The topmost part of the head.

       Synonyms: apex, top
    4. The highest part of a hill.

       Synonyms: apex, crest, hillcrest, peak, summit, top

       Antonyms: base, bottom, foot
    6. The top section of a hat, above the brim.
    8. The raised centre of a road.
    9. The highest part of an arch.
    10. The upper range of facets in a rose diamond.
    11. The dome of a furnace.
    12. The upper part of certain fruits, as the pineapple or strawberry, that is removed before eating.
17. (architecture) A kind of spire or lantern formed by converging flying buttresses.
19. Splendor; culmination; acme.

    Synonyms: completion, culmination, finish, splendor
21. Any currency (originally) issued by the crown (regal power) and often bearing a crown (headdress); (translation) various currencies known by similar names in their native languages, such as the koruna, kruna, krone, korona.
23. (historical) A former predecimalization British coin worth five shillings.

    Synonyms: caser, tusheroon, tush, tosheroon, tosh, bull, caroon, thick-un, coachwheel, cartwheel
25. (historical, by extension) A coin or note worth five shillings in various countries that are or were in the British Commonwealth, such as Ireland or Jamaica.
27. (botany) The part of a plant where the root and stem meet.
29. (forestry) The top of a tree.

    Holonym: canopy

31. (anatomy, dentistry) The part of a tooth above the gums.

    Synonym: corona

33. (dentistry) A prosthetic covering for a tooth.

    Synonyms: dental crown, dental cap

34. (nautical) A knot formed in the end of a rope by tucking in the strands to prevent them from unravelling.
36. (nautical) The part of an anchor where the arms and the shank meet.
37. (nautical) The rounding, or rounded part, of the deck from a level line.
38. (paper) In England, a standard size of printing paper measuring 20 × 15 inches.
39. (paper) In American, a standard size of writing paper measuring 19 × 15 inches.
40. (chemistry) A monocyclic ligand having three or more binding sites, capable of holding a guest in a central location.
41. (medicine) During childbirth, the appearance of the baby's head from the mother's vagina.
42. (firearms) A rounding or smoothing of the barrel opening.
43. (geometry) The area enclosed between two concentric perimeters.
44. (religion) A round spot shaved clean on the top of the head, as a mark of the clerical state; the tonsure.
45. A whole bird with the legs and wings removed to produce a joint of white meat.
46. (African-American Vernacular, colloquial) A formal hat worn by women to Sunday church services; a church crown.
48. (horology) The knurled knob or dial, on the outside of a watch case, used to wind it or adjust the hands.

Derived terms

Descendants

• → Japanese: クラウン (kuraun)
• → Korean: 크라운 (keuraun)
• → Maori: karauna

Translations

Adjective

crown (not comparable)

1. Of, related to, or pertaining to a crown.

2. Of, related to, pertaining to the top of a tree or trees.

Translations

Verb

crown (third-person singular simple present crowns, present participle crowning, simple past and past participle crowned)

1. To place a crown on the head of.
   • 2012, Poul Anderson (lyrics), performed by Leslie Fish, “The Ballad of Three Kings” in Avalon is Risen, originally published (in variant form) in Poul Anderson, “Three Kings”, Amra, volume 2, number 64 (1975):

     The king of the Huns was crowned with steel, and rode a stallion red,/Saying: “Proud must my father’s spirit feel of me who crowned my head […]”

2. To formally declare (someone) a king, queen, emperor, etc.
3. To bestow something upon as a mark of honour, dignity, or recompense; to adorn; to dignify.
4. To form the topmost or finishing part of; to complete; to consummate; to perfect.
5. To declare (someone) a winner.
6. (medicine) Of a baby, during the birthing process; for the surface of the baby's head to appear in the vaginal opening.
   • 2007, David Schottke, American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons, First Responder: Your First Response in Emergency Care, page 385

     You will see the baby's head crowning during contractions, at which time you must prepare to assist the mother in the delivery of the baby.
7. (transitive) To cause to round upward; to make anything higher at the middle than at the edges, such as the face of a machine pulley.
8. To hit on the head.
9. (video games) To shoot an opponent in the back of the head with a shotgun in a first-person shooter video game.
10. (board games) In checkers, to stack two checkers to indicate that the piece has become a king.

11. Of a forest fire or bushfire, to spread to the crowns of the trees and thence move from tree to tree independent of the surface fire.
12. (firearms) To widen the opening of the barrel.
13. (military) To effect a lodgment upon, as upon the crest of the glacis, or the summit of the breach.
14. (nautical) To lay the ends of the strands of (a knot) over and under each other.
15. (intransitive, slang) To be on the point of defecating.

    Synonym: grow a tail

Derived terms

• crowned
• crown it all

Translations

See also

• coronation
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Etymology 2

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kɹoʊn/
• Rhymes: -əʊn

Verb

crown

1. (archaic) past participle of crow

References

• “crown”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
• “crown”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.

Middle English

Noun

crown

1. Alternative form of coroune