CROWN

crown

(noun) the part of a hat (the vertex) that covers the crown of the head

crown, diadem

(noun) an ornamental jeweled headdress signifying sovereignty

crown

(noun) a wreath or garland worn on the head to signify victory

crown, crest

(noun) the center of a cambered road

crown, crownwork, jacket, jacket crown, cap

(noun) (dentistry) dental appliance consisting of an artificial crown for a broken or decayed tooth; “tomorrow my dentist will fit me for a crown”

crown

(noun) the part of a tooth above the gum that is covered with enamel

pate, poll, crown

(noun) the top of the head

pennant, crown

(noun) the award given to the champion

Crown

(noun) the Crown (or the reigning monarch) as the symbol of the power and authority of a monarchy; “the colonies revolted against the Crown”

peak, crown, crest, top, tip, summit

(noun) the top or extreme point of something (usually a mountain or hill); “the view from the peak was magnificent”; “they clambered to the tip of Monadnock”; “the region is a few molecules wide at the summit”

crown, treetop

(noun) the upper branches and leaves of a tree or other plant

crown

(noun) an English coin worth 5 shillings

crown, top

(verb) be the culminating event; “The speech crowned the meeting”

crown

(verb) put an enamel cover on; “crown my teeth”

crown, coronate

(verb) invest with regal power; enthrone; “The prince was crowned in Westminster Abbey”

crown

(verb) form the topmost part of; “A weather vane crowns the building”

Source: WordNet® 3.1

Etymology 1

Noun

crown (plural crowns)

A royal, imperial or princely headdress; a diadem.

Synonyms: coronet, diadem

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

Imperial or regal power, or those who wield it.

Synonyms: monarchy, royalty

(metonym) The sovereign (in a monarchy), as head of state.

(by extension, especially in legal) The state, the government (headed by a monarch).

The top part of something

The topmost part of the head.

Synonyms: apex, top

The highest part of a hill.

Synonyms: apex, peak, summit, top

Antonyms: base, bottom, foot

The top section of a hat, above the brim.

The raised centre of a road.

The highest part of an arch.

The upper range of facets in a rose diamond.

The dome of a furnace.

(architecture) A kind of spire or lantern formed by converging flying buttresses.

Splendor; culmination; acme.

Synonyms: completion, culmination, finish, splendor

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.

(historical) A former pre-decimalization British coin worth five shillings.

Synonyms: caser, tusheroon, tush, tosheroon, tosh, bull, caroon, thick-un, coachwheel, cartwheel

(botany) The part of a plant where the root and stem meet.

(forestry) The top of a tree.

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

Synonym: corona

(dentistry) A prosthetic covering for a tooth.

(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

(nautical) The rounding, or rounded part, of the deck from a level line.

(nautical, in the plural) The bights formed by the turns of a cable.

(paper) In England, a standard size of printing paper measuring 20 × 15 inches.

(paper) In American, 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

(medical) During childbirth, the appearance of the baby's head from the mother's vagina

(firearms) A rounding or smoothing of the barrel opening

(geometry) The area enclosed between two concentric perimeters.

(religion) A round spot shaved clean on the top of the head, as a mark of the clerical state; the tonsure.

A whole bird with the legs and wings removed to produce a joint of white meat.

(African-American Vernacular, colloquial) A formal hat worn by women to Sunday church services; a church crown.

The knurled knob or dial, on the outside of a watch case, used to wind it or adjust the hands.

Adjective

crown (not comparable)

Of, related to, or pertaining to a crown.

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

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.

To formally declare (someone) a king, queen, emperor, etc.

To bestow something upon as a mark of honour, dignity, or recompense; to adorn; to dignify.

To form the topmost or finishing part of; to complete; to consummate; to perfect.

To declare (someone) a winner.

(medicine) Of a baby, during the birthing process; for the surface of the baby's head to appear in the vaginal opening.

(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.

(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.

(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.

Etymology 2

Verb

crown

(archaic) past participle of crow

Etymology

Proper noun

Crown

(government) The sovereign, in a monarchic country.

(government) The government, in a monarchic country.

(Canada, legal) A Crown attorney.

Source: Wiktionary

Crown (krn),

Definition: p. p. of Crow. [Obs.]

Crown (kroun), n. Etym: [OE. corone, coroun, crune, croun, OF. corone, corune, F. couronne, fr. L. corona crown, wreath; akin to Gr. curvus curved, E. curve, curb, Gael. cruinn round, W. crwn. Cf. Cornice, Corona, Coroner, Coronet.]

1. A wreath or garland, or any ornamental fillet encircling the head, especially as a reward of victory or mark of honorable distinction; hence, anything given on account of, or obtained by, faithful or successful effort; a reward. "An olive branch and laurel crown." Shak. They do it to obtain a corruptible crown; but we an incorruptiblle. 1 Cor. ix. 25. Be thou faithful unto death, and I will give thee a crown of life. Rev. ii. 10.

2. A royal headdress or cap of sovereignty, worn by emperors, kings, princes, etc.

Note: Nobles wear coronets; the triple crown of the pope is usually called a tiara. The crown of England is a circle of gold with crosses, fleurs-de-lis, and imperial arches, inclosing a crimson velvet cap, and ornamented with thousands of diamonds and precious stones.

3. The person entitled to wear a regal or imperial crown; the sovereign; -- with the definite article. Parliament may be dissolved by the demise of the crown. Blackstone. Large arrears of pay were due to the civil and military servants of the crown. Macaulay.

4. Imperial or regal power or dominion; sovereignty. There is a power behind the crown greater than the crown itself. Junius.

5. Anything which imparts beauty, splendor, honor, dignity, or finish. The hoary head is a crown of glory, if it be found in the way of righteousness. Prov. xvi. 31. A virtuous woman is a crown to her husband. Prov. xvi. 4.

6. Highest state; acme; consummation; perfection. Mutual love, the crown of all our bliss. Milton.

7. The topmost part of anything; the summit. The steepy crown of the bare mountains. Dryden.

8. The topmost part of the head (see Illust. of Bird.); that part of the head from which the hair descends toward the sides and back; also, the head or brain. From toe to crown he'll fill our skin with pinches. Shak. Twenty things which I set down: This done, I twenty more-had in my crown. Bunyan.

9. The part of a hat above the brim.

10. (Anat.)

Definition: The part of a tooth which projects above the gum; also, the top or grinding surface of a tooth.

11. (Arch.)

Definition: The vertex or top of an arch; -- applied generally to about one third of the curve, but in a pointed arch to the apex only.

12. (Bot.)

Definition: Same as Corona.

13. (Naut.) (a) That part of an anchor where the arms are joined to the shank. (b) The rounding, or rounded part, of the deck from a level line. (c) pl.

Definition: The bights formed by the several turns of a cable. Totten.

14. The upper range of facets in a rose diamond.

15. The dome of a furnace.

16. (Geom.)

Definition: The area inclosed between two concentric perimeters.

17. (Eccl.)

Definition: A round spot shaved clean on the top of the head, as a mark of the clerical state; the tonsure.

18. A size of writing paper. See under Paper.

19. A coin stamped with the image of a crown; hence,a denomination of money; as, the English crown, a silver coin of the value of five shillings sterling, or a little more than $1.20; the Danish or Norwegian crown, a money of account, etc., worth nearly twenty-seven cents.

20. An ornaments or decoration representing a crown; as, the paper is stamped with a crown. Crown of aberration (Astron.), a spurious circle around the true circle of the sun.

– Crown antler (Zoöl.), the topmost branch or tine of an antler; also, an antler having a cuplike top, with tines springing from the rim.

– Crown bar, one of the bars which support the crown sheet of steam-boiler furnace.

– Crown glass. See under Glass.

– Crown imperial. (Bot.) See in the Vocabulary.

– Crown jewels, the jewels appertaining to the sovereign while wearing the crown. [Eng.] "She pawned and set to sale the crown jewels." Milton.

– Crown land, land belonging to the crown, that is, to the sovereign.

– Crown law, the law which governs criminal prosecutions. [Eng.] -- Crown lawyer, one employed by the crown, as in criminal cases. [Eng.]

– Crown octavo. See under Paper.

– Crown office. See in the Vocabulary.

– Crown paper. See under Paper.

– Crown piece. See in the Vocabulary.

– Crown Prince, the heir apparent to a crown or throne.

– Crown saw. See in the Vocabulary.

– Crown scab (Far.), a cancerous sore formed round the corners of a horse's hoof.

– Crown sheet, the flat plate which forms the top of the furnace or fire box of an internally fired steam boiler.

– Crown shell. (Zoöl.) See Acorn-shell.

– Crown side. See Crown office.

– Crown tax (Eccl. Hist.), a golden crown, or its value, which was required annually from the Jews by the king of Syria, in the time of the Maccabees. 1 Macc. x. 20.

– Crown wheel. See in the Vocabulary.

– Crown work. See in the Vocabulary.

– Pleas of the crown (Engl. law), criminal actions.

Crown (kroun), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Crowned (kround); p. pr. & vb. n. Crowning.] Etym: [OE. coronen, corunen, crunien, crounien, OF. coroner, F. couronner, fr. L. coronare, fr. corona a crown. See Crown, n.]

1. To cover, decorate, or invest with a crown; hence, to invest with royal dignity and power. Her who fairest does appear, Crown her queen of all the year. Dryden. Crown him, and say, "Long live our emperor." Shak.

2. To bestow something upon as a mark of honor, dignity, or recompense; to adorn; to dignify. Thou . . . hast crowned him with glory and honor. Ps. viii. 5.

3. To form the topmost or finishing part of; to complete; to consummate; to perfect. Amidst the grove that crowns yon tufted hill. Byron. One day shall crown the alliance. Shak. To crown the whole, came a proposition. Motley.

4. (Mech.)

Definition: To cause to round upward; to make anything higher at the middle than at the edges, as the face of a machine pulley.

5. (Mil.)

Definition: To effect a lodgment upon, as upon the crest of the glacis, or the summit of the breach. To crown a knot (Naut.), to lay the ends of the strands over and under each other.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition

CROWN

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