Word: crown Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Inherited 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 Old English corenbēag (“crown”) and Middle English kinehelm, kynehelm, from Old English cynehelm (“crown”, literally “kinhelm” or “king's helm”). The paper sizes (etymology 1, noun sense 18) are so called because the papers were originally watermarked with a crown. Pronunciation: /kɹaʊ̯n/, /kɹæʊ̯n/, /kɹaːn/ 1. A royal, imperial or princely headdress; a diadem. Example: 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. 2. A wreath or band for the head, especially one given as reward of victory or a mark of honor. 3. Any reward of victory or mark of honor. Labels: broadly Example: the martyr’s crown 4. Imperial or regal power, or those who wield it. 5. The sovereign (in a monarchy), as head of state. Labels: metonymically Example: A parliament may be diſſolved by the demiſe of the crown. 6. The state, the government (headed by a monarch). Labels: broadly, especially Example: Treasure recovered from shipwrecks automatically becomes property of the Crown. Example: Large arrears of pay were due to the civil and military servants of the crown; and only forty thousand pounds remained in the Exchequer. 7. The police (referring to Crown Victoria police cars). Labels: dated, slang 8. The top part of something: Example: [...]if he awake, / From toe to crowne hee'l fill our skin with pinches, / Make vs ſtrange ſtuffe. Example: 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. 9. The top part of something: 10. The top part of something: 11. The top part of something: Example: Huge Trunks of Trees, fell'd from the ſteepy Crown / Of the bare Mountains, rowl with Ruin down. Example: 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. 12. The top part of something: 13. The top part of something: Example: 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. 14. The top part of something: Example: The arch failed first at the crown, then at the quarterings, and finally at the springings. 15. The top part of something: 16. The top part of something: 17. The top part of something: 18. The top part of something: Example: Holonym: canopy 19. A kind of spire or lantern formed by converging flying buttresses. 20. Splendor; culmination; acme. Example: […] happie in our mutual help/ And mutual love, the Crown of all our bliſs/ Ordain'd by thee, […] 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 korona, koruna, krona, króna, krone. 22. A former predecimalization British coin worth five shillings. Labels: historical Example: 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. 23. A coin or note worth five shillings in various countries that are or were in the British Commonwealth, such as Ireland or Jamaica. Labels: broadly, historical Example: There is no difficulty getting married in Jamaica, is there? No, it only costs half a crown. Example: Maggie Murphy had some knickers that she bought in Bagenalstown, an interlock of knickers that she got for a half a crown. 24. The part of a plant where the root and stem meet. 25. The part of a tooth above the gums. 26. A prosthetic covering for a tooth. 27. A knot formed in the end of a rope by tucking in the strands to prevent them from unravelling. 28. The part of an anchor where the arms and the shank meet. Example: 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. 29. The rounding, or rounded part, of the deck from a level line. 30. A standard size of printing paper measuring 20 × 15 inches. Labels: UK 31. A standard size of writing paper measuring 19 × 15 inches. Labels: US 32. A monocyclic ligand having three or more binding sites, capable of holding a guest in a central location. 33. A rounding or smoothing of the barrel opening. 34. The area enclosed between two concentric perimeters. 35. A whole bird with the legs and wings removed to produce a joint of white meat. Example: 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. 36. A formal hat worn by women to Sunday church services; a church crown. Labels: colloquial Example: "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]." 37. The knurled knob or dial, on the outside of a watch case, used to wind it or adjust the hands.