# crown
## English
### Etymology 1

From Middle English coroune, from Anglo-Norman corone, from Latin corōna (“crown, wreath”), from Ancient Greek κορώνη (korṓnē). Doublet of corona, korona, koruna, krona, króna, and krone. 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: /kɹaʊn/
* Audio (Canada):(file)
* Rhymes: -aʊn
* Homophone: crayon (some pronunciations)

#### Noun

crown (plural crowns)
* (clothing, monarchy) A royal, imperial or princely headdress; a diadem.
    Synonyms: coronet, diadem
** 1945 September and October, C. Hamilton Ellis, “Royal Trains—V”, in Railway Magazine, page 250:Before so many of Europe's crowns came tumbling off the heads of their royal owners, Continental Europe could show a rich variety in the matter of royal trains.
* A wreath or band for the head, especially one given as reward of victory or a mark of honor.
    Synonyms: garland, wreath
* (by extension) Any reward of victory or mark of honor.
    Synonyms: award, garland, honor, prize, wreath
    the martyr’s crown
* Imperial or regal power, or those who wield it.
    Synonyms: monarchy, royalty
* (metonymically) The sovereign (in a monarchy), as head of state.
** 1765, William Blackstone, “Of the Parliament”, in Commentaries on the Laws of England, book I (Of the Rights of Persons), Oxford, Oxfordshire: […] Clarendon Press, →OCLC, page 181:A parliament may be diſſolved by the demiſe of the crown.
* (by extension, especially in law) The state, the government (headed by a monarch).
    Treasure recovered from shipwrecks automatically becomes property of the Crown.
** 1849, Thomas Babington Macaulay, chapter X, in The History of England from the Accession of James II, volume I, London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, →OCLC, page 597:Large arrears of pay were due to the civil and military servants of the crown; and only forty thousand pounds remained in the Exchequer.
* (old slang) The police (referring to Crown Victoria police cars).
* The top part of something:
** The topmost part of the head.
    Synonyms: apex, top
*** 1610–1611 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tempest”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene i], page 16, column 1:[...]if he awake, / From toe to crowne hee'l fill our skin with pinches, / Make vs ſtrange ſtuffe.
*** 1678, John Bunyan, “The Author’s Apology for His Book”, in The Pilgrim’s Progress from This World, to That which is to Come: […], London: […] Nath[aniel] Ponder […], →OCLC:In more than twenty things, which I ſet down; / This done, I twenty more had in my Crown, / And they again began to multiply, / Like ſparks that from the coals of fire do fly.
*** (medicine) During childbirth, the appearance of the baby's head from the mother's vagina.
*** (religion) A round spot shaved clean on the top of the head, as a mark of the clerical state; the tonsure.
** The highest part of a hill.
    Synonyms: apex, crest, hillcrest, peak, summit, top
    Antonyms: base, bottom, foot
*** 1697, Virgil, “The Sixth Book of the Æneis”, in John Dryden, transl., The Works of Virgil: Containing His Pastorals, Georgics, and Æneis. […], London: […] Jacob Tonson, […], →OCLC, page 370, lines 267–268:Huge Trunks of Trees, fell'd from the ſteepy Crown / Of the bare Mountains, rowl with Ruin down.
*** 1829, Edgar Allan Poe, “Tamerlane”, in Al Aaraaf, Tamerlane and Minor Poems:We walk’d together on the crown/Of a high mountain which look’d down/Afar from its proud natural towers/Of rock and forest, on the hills—/The dwindled hills! begirt with bowers/And shouting with a thousand rills.
*** 1960 December, Voyageur, “The Mountain Railways of the Bernese Oberland”, in Trains Illustrated, page 752:So we continue climbing to the saddle of the Kleine Scheidegg, where ahead there comes into view the wide expanse of the Grindelwald valley, backed by the snowy crown of the Wetterhorn.
** The top section of a hat, above the brim.
** The raised centre of a road.
*** 1953, Samuel Beckett, Watt, [Paris]: Olympia Press, →OCLC:Watt was beginning to tire of running his eyes up and down this highway, when a figure, human apparently, advancing along its crown, arrested, and revived, his attention.
** The highest part of an arch.
*** 1941 February, “Bridge demolition by lifting”, in Railway Magazine, page 74:The arch failed first at the crown, then at the quarterings, and finally at the springings.
** The upper range of facets in a rose diamond.
** The dome of a furnace.
** The upper part of certain fruits, as the pineapple or strawberry, that is removed before eating.
** (forestry) The top of a tree.
    Holonym: canopy
* (architecture) A kind of spire or lantern formed by converging flying buttresses.
* Splendor; culmination; acme.
    Synonyms: completion, culmination, finish, splendor
** 1667, John Milton, “Book IV”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […]; [a]nd by Robert Boulter […]; [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], →OCLC; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, →OCLC, lines 727–729:[...] happie in our mutual help/ And mutual love, the Crown of all our bliſs/ Ordain'd by thee, [...]
* 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 korona, koruna, krona, króna, krone.
* (historical) A former predecimalization British coin worth five shillings.
    Synonyms: caser, tusheroon, tush, tosheroon, tosh, bull, caroon, thick-un, coachwheel, cartwheel
** 1859, J.C. Hotten, A Dictionary of Modern Slang, Cant, and Vulgar Words:Half-a-crown is known as an alderman, half a bull, half a tusheroon, and a madza caroon; whilst a crown piece, or five shillings, may be called either a bull, or a caroon, or a cartwheel, or a coachwheel, or a thick-un, or a tusheroon.
* (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.
** 1866, Jamaica. Report of the Royal Jamaica Commission, 1866. Part II: Minutes of Evidence and Appendix‎, H.M.Stationery Office, page 558:There is no difficulty getting married in Jamaica, is there? No, it only costs half a crown.
** 2009, “Maggie Murphy's Knickers” (track 8), in Stay Wut Her Johnny‎, performed by Richie Kavanagh:Maggie Murphy had some knickers that she bought in Bagenalstown, an interlock of knickers that she got for a half a crown.
* (botany) The part of a plant where the root and stem meet.
* (anatomy, dentistry) The part of a tooth above the gums.
    Synonym: corona
* (dentistry) A prosthetic covering for a tooth.
    Synonyms: dental crown, dental cap
* (nautical) A knot formed in the end of a rope by tucking in the strands to prevent them from unravelling.
* (nautical) The part of an anchor where the arms and the shank meet.
** 1904–1906, Joseph Conrad, chapter IV, in The Mirror of the Sea, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.; London: Harper & Brothers, published October 1906, →OCLC:The honest, rough piece of iron, so simple in appearance, has more parts than the human body has limbs: the ring, the stock, the crown, the flukes, the palms, the shank. All this, according to the journalist, is “cast” when a ship arriving at an anchorage is brought up.
* (nautical) The rounding, or rounded part, of the deck from a level line.
* (paper)
** (UK) A standard size of printing paper measuring 20 × 15 inches.
** (US) A standard size of writing paper measuring 19 × 15 inches.
* (chemistry) A monocyclic ligand having three or more binding sites, capable of holding a guest in a central location.
* (firearms) A rounding or smoothing of the barrel opening.
* (geometry) The area enclosed between two concentric perimeters.
* A whole bird with the legs and wings removed to produce a joint of white meat.
** 2012, Paul Treyvaud, The Hooker in the Lobby:When these TV chefs show you that they can cook a turkey crown in less than two hours; they aren't magicians or have secret turkey suppliers. The twenty minute per pound rule is based on our grandparents' ovens.
* (African-American Vernacular, colloquial) A formal hat worn by women to Sunday church services; a church crown.
** 2013, Adam Boulton, Tony's Ten Years: Memories of the Blair Administration‎:"His [Barack Obama's] unofficial slogan 'fired up and ready to go!' was borrowed from an 'old lady in a church crown [Sunday best hat]."
* (horology) The knurled knob or dial, on the outside of a watch case, used to wind it or adjust the hands.

##### Derived terms

* 12-crown-4
* 15-crown-5
* 18-crown-6
* Advent crown
* antique crown
* astral crown
* becrown
* blockade crown
* blossomcrown
* Blue Crown
* bridal crown
* celestial crown
* civic crown
* copple-crown
* crownable
* crown achievement
* crown agent
* crown and anchor
* crown antler
* crown bar
* crown cactus
* crown cap
* crown clade
* crown colony
* crown cork
* crown corporation
* Crown Court
* crown daisy
* crown dependency
* crowned pigeon
* crown estate
* crown ether
* crown fire
* crown flash
* crown flower
* crown gall
* crown glass
* crown gold
* crown grafting
* crown graph
* crowngrass
* crown green
* crown green bowls
* crown group
* crown immunity
* crown imperial
* crown jewel
* crown jewels, Crown Jewels
* crown land
* crown lands
* crown lease
* crownless
* crownlet
* crown-like
* crownlike
* crownmaker
* crown mammal
* crownment
* crown molding
* crown of aberration
* crown-of-the-field
* crown of thorns
* crownophane
* crownpiece
* Crown Point
* crownpost
* crown prince
* crown princess
* crown prosecutor
* crown roast
* crown saw
* crown scab
* crown sheet
* crown shyness
* crown virus
* crown ward
* crownward
* crownwards
* crown wheel
* crown witness
* crownwork
* decrown
* de-crown
* discrown
* eastern crown
* firecrown
* flower crown
* forecrown
* grass crown
* half-crown
* hindcrown
* imperial crown
* jewel in the crown
* jewel in the Liberal crown
* mural crown
* nanocrown
* naval crown
* obsidional crown
* olive crown
* plea of the crown
* plushcrown
* raspberry crown borer
* Raven Crown
* Red Crown
* royal crown
* Steinbach's crown cactus
* thistle crown
* triple crown
* uneasy lies the head that wears a crown
* vallar crown
* White Crown
* yellowcrown

##### Descendants

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

##### Translations

Albanian: kurorë (sq) f, kunorë f (Gheg)
Amharic: ዘውድ (zäwd)
Apache:
Western Apache: nantʼaʼ chʼah
Arabic: تَاج (ar) m (tāj), إِكْلِيل m (ʔiklīl)
Egyptian Arabic: تاج m (tāg)
Hijazi Arabic: تاج m (tāj)
Argobba: ዘውድ (zäwd)
Armenian: թագ (hy) (tʻag)
Aromanian: cãrunã f, curunã f
Azerbaijani: tac (az)
Baluchi: تاج (táj)
Bashkir: таж (taj)
Basque: koroa
Belarusian: каро́на f (karóna)
Bengali: তাজ (bn) (taj), মুকুট (bn) (mukuṭ)
Breton: kurunenn (br) f
Bulgarian: коро́на (bg) f (koróna)
Burmese: သရဖူ (my) (sa.ra.hpu), မကိုဋ် (my) (ma.kuit)
Catalan: corona (ca) f
Cebuano: korona, purongpurong
Chamicuro: chepe'kiline
Chechen: таж (taž)
Cherokee: ᎠᎵᏍᏚᎶ (alisdulo)
Chinese:
Cantonese: 王冠 (wong$^4$ gun$^1$)
Mandarin: 王冠 (zh) (wángguān), 冠 (zh) (guān)
Coptic: ⲕⲗⲟⲙ (klom)
Corsican: curona f
Czech: koruna (cs) f
Danish: krone (da) c
Dutch: kroon (nl) f
Egyptian: (ḫꜥw m)
Erzya: каштаз (kaštaz), сырнепря (sïrnepŕa)
Esperanto: krono (eo)
Estonian: kroon (et)
Finnish: kruunu (fi)
French: couronne (fr) f
Friulian: corone f
Galician: coroa (gl) f
Ge'ez: አክሊል (ʾäklil)
Georgian: გვირგვინი (ka) (gvirgvini)
German: Krone (de) f
Gothic: 𐍅𐌰𐌹𐍀𐍃 m (waips)
Greek: κορώνα (el) f (koróna)
Ancient Greek: στέφανος m (stéphanos), διάδημα n (diádēma)
Gujarati: તાજ (tāj)
Hebrew: כֶּתֶר (he) m (kéter)
Hindi: ताज (hi) m (tāj), मुकुट (hi) m (mukuṭ)
Hungarian: korona (hu)
Icelandic: kóróna (is) f
Ido: krono (io)
Indonesian: mahkota (id)
Interlingua: corona
Irish: coróin f
Italian: corona (it) f
Japanese: 王冠 (ja) (おうかん, ōkan), かぶり (kaburi), クラウン (ja) (kuraun)
Kazakh: тәж (täj)
Khmer: មកុដ (km) (mĕəʼkot)
Korean: 왕관(王冠) (ko) (wanggwan), 크라운 (keuraun)
Kurdish:
Central Kurdish: تاج (tac)
Northern Kurdish: tac (ku) f
Kyrgyz: таажы (ky) (taajı)
Lao: ພະມາລາ (pha mā lā), ມາລາ (mā lā), ມຸງກຸດ (mung kut)
Latgalian: krūņs
Latin: corōna f
Latvian: kronis m
Lezgi: таж (taž)
Lithuanian: karūna f
Luxembourgish: Kroun f
Macedonian: круна (mk) f (kruna)
Maguindanao: batabul, markota
Malay: mahkota (monarchy)
Malayalam: കിരീടം (ml) (kirīṭaṁ)
Maltese: kuruna f
Manx: crooin
Maori: karauna
Marathi: मुकुट n (mukuṭ)
Middle English: coroune
Mongolian:
Cyrillic: титэм (mn) (titem)
Norman: couorône f
North Frisian: krööne
Northwestern Ojibwa: biiwaabik-wiiwakwaan
Norwegian:
Bokmål: krone (no) m or f
Occitan: corona (oc) f
Old Occitan: corona
Old English: bēag m, hēafodbēag m
Old Galician-Portuguese: corõa f
Ossetian: тахъа (taqa)
Pali: makuṭa
Pashto: تاج (ps) m (tāj)
Persian:
Iranian Persian: تاج (fa) (tâj), اَفْسَر (afsar)
Plautdietsch: Kroon f
Polish: korona (pl) f
Portuguese: coroa (pt) f
Punjabi: ਤਾਜ (tāj)
Romanian: coroană (ro) f, cunună (ro) f
Romansch: curuna f, cruna f, crùna f, carugna f
Russian: коро́на (ru) f (koróna), вене́ц (ru) m (venéc)
Sanskrit: मुकुट (sa) m (mukuṭa)
Sardinian: corona f, curona f
Saterland Frisian: Kroune
Scottish Gaelic: crùn m
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: кру̏на f
Roman: krȕna (sh) f
Shan: သရၽူႇ (shn) (sǎ rǎ phùu)
Sicilian: curuna f
Slovak: koruna f
Slovene: krọ̑na (sl) f
Sorbian:
Lower Sorbian: krona f
Upper Sorbian: króna f
Southern Altai: таајы (taaǰï) (arab), корона (korona) (russ)
Spanish: corona (es) f
Swahili: taji (sw), kirauni (sw)
Swedish: krona (sv) c
Tagalog: korona (tl), putong (tl)
Tajik: тоҷ (toj)
Tamil: கிரீடம் (ta) (kirīṭam), முடி (ta) (muṭi), மகுடம் (ta) (makuṭam)
Tatar: таҗ (tt) (tac)
Telugu: కిరీటము (te) (kirīṭamu)
Thai: มงกุฎ (th) (mong-gùt), มกุฎ (th) (má-gùt)
Tigrinya: ዘውዲ (zäwdi)
Turkish: taç (tr)
Turkmen: täç
Ukrainian: коро́на (uk) f (koróna)
Urdu: تاج m (tāj), مُکُٹ m (mukuṭ)
Uyghur: تاج (taj)
Uzbek: toj (uz)
Vietnamese: mũ miện, vương miện, miện (vi)
Volapük: kron (vo)
Welsh: coron (cy) f
West Frisian: kroan c
Yiddish: קרוין f (kroyn), עטרה f (atore), כּתר m (keser)
Yoruba: adé
Zulu: umqhele (zu) class 3/4 :
Arabic: يَافُوخ m (yāfūḵ)
Armenian: գագաթ (hy) (gagatʻ)
Belarusian: це́мя n (cjémja), ма́каўка f (mákaŭka)
Bulgarian: те́ме (bg) n (téme)
Catalan: coroneta f
Chinese:
Cantonese: 頭頂 / 头顶 (tau$^4$ deng$^2$)
Mandarin: 頭頂 / 头顶 (zh) (tóudǐng)
Czech: temeno (cs) n, témě n (archaic or literary)
Danish: isse (da) c
Dutch: kruin (nl)
Eblaite: 𒈬𒄷𒌝 (mu-ḫu-um /⁠muḫḫum⁠/)
Egyptian: (qꜣbt f)
Estonian: pealagi, lagipea
Finnish: päälaki (fi)
French: sommet (fr) m
Galician: curuto m, croca (gl) f, coroa (gl) f
German: Scheitel (de) m
Greek: κορυφή (el) f (koryfí), κορφή (el) f (korfí)
Hebrew: קודקוד/קָדְקוֹד/קָדְקֹד (he) m (kodkód)
Hindi: सिर (hi) m (sir), कपाल (hi) f (kapāl), शीर्ष (hi) m (śīrṣ)
Hungarian: fejtető (hu), feje búbja
Icelandic: krúna f
Ingrian: päälaki
Irish: baithis f, mullach m
Italian: cocuzzolo (it) m, calotta cranica
Japanese: 頭頂 (ja) (とうちょう, tōchō)
Korean: 정수리 (ko) (jeongsuri), 두정(頭頂) (dujeong)
Laz: კოტულა (ǩoťula)
Macedonian: те́ме n (téme)
Maori: tumuaki
Middle English: coroune, molde
Nanai: чимчикэн (čimčiken)
Navajo: atsiitʼáád, atsiitʼáá
Norwegian:
Bokmål: isse m
Old East Slavic: тѣмѧ n (těmę)
Old English: hnoll m
Ottoman Turkish: تپه (tepe), قمه (kımme)
Persian:
Iranian Persian: تارَک (târak), هَباک (habâk)
Polish: ciemię (pl) n
Portuguese: topo (pt) m, alta (pt) f, moleira (pt) f
Romanian: creștet (ro) n, sinciput (ro) n
Russian: те́мя (ru) n (témja), маку́шка (ru) f (makúška) (colloquial), ма́ковка (ru) f (mákovka) (colloquial)
Scottish Gaelic: mullach m, bàrr a' chinn m, crùn m
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: те̏ме n, тје̏ме n
Roman: tȅme (sh) n, tjȅme (sh) n
Slovak: temeno n
Slovene: teme n
Spanish: coronilla f, corona (es) f
Swedish: hjässa (sv) c
Tajik: торак (torak)
Tatar: караңгылык (tt) (qarañgılıq)
Tocharian B: tarne
Ugaritic: 𐎖𐎄𐎖𐎄 (qdqd)
Ukrainian: ті́м'я n (tímʺja), ма́ківка f (mákivka)
Vietnamese: thóp (vi), đỉnh (vi)
Welsh: corun m
Zulu: ukhakhayi class 11/10 :
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#### Adjective

crown (not comparable)
* Of, related to, or pertaining to a crown.
    crown prince
* Of, related to, pertaining to the top of a tree or trees.
    a crown fire

##### Translations
#### Verb

crown (third-person singular simple present crowns, present participle crowning, simple past and past participle crowned)
* 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 […]”
* To formally declare (someone) a king, queen, emperor, etc.
** 1665 (first performance), John Dryden, The Indian Emperour, or, The Conquest of Mexico by the Spaniards. […], London: […] J[ohn] M[acock] for H[enry] Herringman […], published 1667, →OCLC, Act I, scene ii, page 3:Her, vvho faireſt does appear, / Crovvn her Queen of all the year.
* To bestow something upon as a mark of honour, dignity, or recompense; to adorn; to dignify.
** 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Psalms 8:5:Thou […] hast crowned him with glory and honour.
* To form the topmost or finishing part of; to complete; to consummate; to perfect.
** 1812, Lord Byron, “Canto II”, in Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage. A Romaunt, London: Printed for John Murray, […]; William Blackwood, Edinburgh; and John Cumming, Dublin; by Thomas Davison, […], →OCLC, stanza XLIX:the grove that crowns yon tufted hill
** 1856, John Lothrop Motley, The Rise of the Dutch Republic:To crown the whole, came a proposition.
* To declare (someone) a winner.
** 2011 October 23, Tom Fordyce, “2011 Rugby World Cup final: New Zealand 8-7 France”, in BBC Sport‎:New Zealand were crowned world champions for the first time in 24 years after squeezing past an inspired France team by a single point.
* (medicine) Of a baby, during the birthing process; for the surface of the baby's head to appear in the vaginal opening.
    The mother was in the second stage of labor and the fetus had just crowned, prompting a round of encouragement from the midwives.
** 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.
** 2010, Scott Gallagher, Dancing Upon the Shore, page 157:He's crowning . . . His head's coming through
* (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.
* To hit on the head.
** 1963, Margery Allingham, chapter 6, in The China Governess: A Mystery, London: Chatto & Windus, →OCLC:‘ […] I remember a lady coming to inspect St. Mary's Home where I was brought up and seeing us all in our lovely Elizabethan uniforms we were so proud of, and bursting into tears all over us because “it was wicked to dress us like charity children”. We nearly crowned her we were so offended. She saw us but she didn't know us, did she?’.
* (video games) To shoot an opponent in the back of the head with a shotgun in a first-person shooter video game.
* (board games) In checkers, to stack two checkers to indicate that the piece has become a king.
    “Crown me!” I said, as I moved my checker to the back row.
* 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.
* (firearms) To widen the opening of the barrel.
* (military) To effect a lodgment upon, as upon the crest of the glacis, or the summit of the breach.
* (nautical) To lay the ends of the strands of (a knot) over and under each other.
* (intransitive, slang) To be on the point of defecating.
    Synonym: grow a tail
** 2020, Eddy Keymolen, amerikanischen Umgangssprache, page 148:Where's the bathroom, I'm crowning here!

##### Derived terms

* crowned
* crowner
* crown it all
* recrown
* uncrown

##### Translations
#### See also

* coronation

### Etymology 2
#### Pronunciation

* IPA: /kɹoʊn/
* Rhymes: -əʊn

#### Verb

crown
* (archaic) past participle of crow
** 1823, Byron, Don Juan:The cock had crown.

### References

* “crown”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
* William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “crown”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.

## Middle English
### Noun

crown
* Alternative form of coroune