crown
Part of speech: noun
adj
verb
Morphological type: simple
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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 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.
Inflected forms:
form: crowns
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: crowns
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: crowning
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: crowned
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: crowned
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A royal, imperial or princely headdress; a diadem.
pos: noun
examples: 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.
gloss: A wreath or band for the head, especially one given as reward of victory or a mark of honor.
pos: noun
gloss: Any reward of victory or mark of honor.
pos: noun
tags: broadly
examples: the martyr’s crown
gloss: Imperial or regal power, or those who wield it.
pos: noun
gloss: The sovereign (in a monarchy), as head of state.
pos: noun
tags: metonymically
examples: A parliament may be diſſolved by the demiſe of the crown.
gloss: The state, the government (headed by a monarch).
pos: noun
tags: broadly
especially
examples: Treasure recovered from shipwrecks automatically becomes property of the Crown.
Large arrears of pay were due to the civil and military servants of the crown; and only forty thousand pounds remained in the Exchequer.
gloss: The police (referring to Crown Victoria police cars).
pos: noun
gloss: The top part of something:
pos: noun
examples: [...]if he awake, / From toe to crowne hee'l fill our skin with pinches, / Make vs ſtrange ſtuffe.
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.
gloss: The top part of something:
pos: noun
gloss: The top part of something:
pos: noun
gloss: The top part of something:
pos: noun
examples: Huge Trunks of Trees, fell'd from the ſteepy Crown / Of the bare Mountains, rowl with Ruin down.
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.
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.
gloss: The top part of something:
pos: noun
gloss: The top part of something:
pos: noun
examples: 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.
gloss: The top part of something:
pos: noun
examples: The arch failed first at the crown, then at the quarterings, and finally at the springings.
gloss: The top part of something:
pos: noun
gloss: The top part of something:
pos: noun
gloss: The top part of something:
pos: noun
gloss: The top part of something:
pos: noun
examples: Holonym: canopy
gloss: A kind of spire or lantern formed by converging flying buttresses.
pos: noun
gloss: Splendor; culmination; acme.
pos: noun
examples: […] happie in our mutual help/ And mutual love, the Crown of all our bliſs/ Ordain'd by thee, […]
gloss: 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.
pos: noun
gloss: A former predecimalization British coin worth five shillings.
pos: noun
tags: historical
examples: 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.
gloss: A coin or note worth five shillings in various countries that are or were in the British Commonwealth, such as Ireland or Jamaica.
pos: noun
tags: broadly
historical
examples: There is no difficulty getting married in Jamaica, is there? No, it only costs half a crown.
Maggie Murphy had some knickers that she bought in Bagenalstown, an interlock of knickers that she got for a half a crown.
gloss: The part of a plant where the root and stem meet.
pos: noun
gloss: The part of a tooth above the gums.
pos: noun
gloss: A prosthetic covering for a tooth.
pos: noun
gloss: A knot formed in the end of a rope by tucking in the strands to prevent them from unravelling.
pos: noun
gloss: The part of an anchor where the arms and the shank meet.
pos: noun
examples: 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.
gloss: The rounding, or rounded part, of the deck from a level line.
pos: noun
gloss: A standard size of printing paper measuring 20 × 15 inches.
pos: noun
tags: UK
gloss: A standard size of writing paper measuring 19 × 15 inches.
pos: noun
tags: US
gloss: A monocyclic ligand having three or more binding sites, capable of holding a guest in a central location.
pos: noun
gloss: A rounding or smoothing of the barrel opening.
pos: noun
gloss: The area enclosed between two concentric perimeters.
pos: noun
gloss: A whole bird with the legs and wings removed to produce a joint of white meat.
pos: noun
examples: 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.
gloss: A formal hat worn by women to Sunday church services; a church crown.
pos: noun
tags: colloquial
examples: "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]."
gloss: The knurled knob or dial, on the outside of a watch case, used to wind it or adjust the hands.
pos: noun
gloss: Of, related to, or pertaining to a crown.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: crown prince
gloss: Of, related to, pertaining to the top of a tree or trees.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: a crown fire
gloss: To place a crown on the head of.
pos: verb
examples: 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 […]”
gloss: To formally declare (someone) a king, queen, emperor, etc.
pos: verb
examples: Her, vvho faireſt does appear, / Crovvn her Queen of all the year.
gloss: To bestow something upon as a mark of honour, dignity, or recompense; to adorn; to dignify.
pos: verb
examples: Thou […] hast crowned him with glory and honour.
gloss: To form the topmost or finishing part of; to complete; to consummate; to perfect.
pos: verb
examples: the grove that crowns yon tufted hill
To crown the whole, came a proposition.
gloss: To declare (someone) a winner.
pos: verb
examples: New Zealand were crowned world champions for the first time in 24 years after squeezing past an inspired France team by a single point.
gloss: Of a baby, during the birthing process; for the surface of the baby's head to appear in the vaginal opening.
pos: verb
examples: The mother was in the second stage of labor and the fetus had just crowned, prompting a round of encouragement from the midwives.
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.
He's crowning . . . His head's coming through
gloss: To cause to round upward; to make anything higher at the middle than at the edges, such as the face of a machine pulley.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: To hit on the head.
pos: verb
examples: ‘[…] 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?’.
gloss: To shoot an opponent in the back of the head with a shotgun in a first-person shooter video game.
pos: verb
gloss: In checkers, to stack two checkers to indicate that the piece has become a king.
pos: verb
examples: “Crown me!” I said, as I moved my checker to the back row.
gloss: 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.
pos: verb
gloss: To widen the opening of the barrel.
pos: verb
gloss: To effect a lodgment upon, as upon the crest of the glacis, or the summit of the breach.
pos: verb
gloss: To lay the ends of the strands of (a knot) over and under each other.
pos: verb
gloss: To be on the point of defecating.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
slang
examples: Where's the bathroom, I'm crowning here!
gloss: To shoot (someone) in the head.
pos: verb
tags: slang
transitive
Related words: coronation
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Derived words: 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
Coxs 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
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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
crown-of-thorns starfish
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
de-crown
decrown
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
the Northern Crown
thistle crown
triple crown
uneasy lies the head that wears a crown
vallar crown
White Crown
yellowcrown
crowned
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Translations:
lang: Arabic
word: يَافُوخ
roman: yāfūḵ
lang: Armenian
word: գագաթ
roman: gagatʻ
lang: Belarusian
word: це́мя
roman: cjémja
lang: Belarusian
word: ма́каўка
roman: mákawka
lang: Bulgarian
word: те́ме
roman: téme
lang: Catalan
word: coroneta
lang: Chinese Cantonese
word: 頭頂 /头顶
roman: tau⁴ deng²
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 頭頂 /头顶
roman: tóudǐng
lang: Czech
word: temeno
lang: Czech
word: témě
lang: Danish
word: isse
lang: Dutch
word: kruin
lang: Eblaite
word: 𒈬𒄷𒌝
lang: Egyptian
word: N29-G1-D58-X1:F16
roman: qꜣbt
lang: Estonian
word: pealagi
lang: Estonian
word: lagipea
lang: Finnish
word: päälaki
lang: French
word: sommet
lang: Galician
word: curuto
lang: Galician
word: croca
lang: Galician
word: coroa
lang: German
word: Scheitel
lang: Greek
word: κορυφή
roman: koryfí
lang: Greek
word: κορφή
roman: korfí
lang: Hebrew
word: קודקוד
roman: kodkód
lang: Hebrew
word: קָדְקוֹד
roman: kodkód
lang: Hebrew
word: קָדְקֹד
roman: kodkód
lang: Hindi
word: सिर
roman: sir
lang: Hindi
word: कपाल
roman: kapāl
lang: Hindi
word: शीर्ष
roman: śīrṣ
lang: Hungarian
word: fejtető
lang: Hungarian
word: feje búbja
lang: Icelandic
word: krúna
lang: Ingrian
word: päälaki
lang: Irish
word: baithis
lang: Irish
word: mullach
lang: Italian
word: cocuzzolo
lang: Italian
word: calotta cranica
lang: Japanese
word: 頭頂
roman: tōchō
lang: Korean
word: 정수리
roman: jeongsuri
lang: Korean
word: 두정
roman: dujeong
lang: Laz
word: კოტულა
roman: ǩoťula
lang: Macedonian
word: те́ме
roman: téme
lang: Māori
word: tumuaki
lang: Māori
word: tipuaki
lang: Middle English
word: coroune
lang: Middle English
word: molde
lang: Nanai
word: чимчикэн
roman: čimčiken
lang: Navajo
word: atsiitʼáád
lang: Navajo
word: atsiitʼáá
lang: Norwegian Bokmål
word: isse
lang: Old East Slavic
word: тѣмѧ
roman: těmę
lang: Old English
word: hnoll
lang: Iranian Persian
word: تارَک
roman: târak
lang: Iranian Persian
word: هَباک
roman: habâk
lang: Polish
word: ciemię
lang: Portuguese
word: topo
lang: Portuguese
word: alta
lang: Portuguese
word: moleira
lang: Romanian
word: creștet
lang: Romanian
word: sinciput
lang: Russian
word: те́мя
roman: témja
lang: Russian
word: маку́шка
roman: makúška
lang: Russian
word: ма́ковка
roman: mákovka
lang: Scottish Gaelic
word: mullach
lang: Scottish Gaelic
word: bàrr a' chinn
lang: Scottish Gaelic
word: crùn
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: те̏ме
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: тје̏ме
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: tȅme
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: tjȅme
lang: Slovak
word: temeno
lang: Slovene
word: teme
lang: Spanish
word: coronilla
lang: Spanish
word: corona
lang: Swedish
word: hjässa
lang: Tajik
word: торак
roman: torak
lang: Tatar
word: караңгылык
roman: qarañğılıq
lang: Tocharian B
word: tarne
lang: Ottoman Turkish
word: تپه
roman: tepe
lang: Ottoman Turkish
word: قمه
roman: kımme
lang: Ugaritic
word: 𐎖𐎄𐎖𐎄
roman: qdqd
lang: Ukrainian
word: ті́м'я
roman: tímʺja
lang: Ukrainian
word: ма́ківка
roman: mákivka
lang: Vietnamese
word: thóp
lang: Vietnamese
word: đỉnh
lang: Volapük
word: kapün
lang: Welsh
word: corun
lang: Zulu
word: ukhakhayi class 11/10
lang: Azerbaijani
word: çətir
lang: Belarusian
word: кро́на
roman: króna
lang: Catalan
word: capçada
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 樹冠 /树冠
roman: shùguān
lang: Finnish
word: latvus
lang: French
word: cime
lang: French
word: houppier
lang: French
word: houpier
lang: Hungarian
word: tető
lang: Hungarian
word: csúcs
lang: Māori
word: kāmata
lang: Māori
word: tāuru
lang: Māori
word: kōuru
lang: Old English
word: helm
lang: Polish
word: korona
lang: Portuguese
word: copa
lang: Russian
word: кро́на
roman: króna
lang: Slovak
word: koruna
lang: Spanish
word: copa
lang: Swedish
word: krona
lang: Ottoman Turkish
word: قمه
roman: kımme
lang: Ukrainian
word: кро́на
roman: króna
lang: Walloon
word: houpî
lang: Welsh
word: corun
lang: Yakut
word: сабарай
roman: sabaray