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crown, diadem
(noun) an ornamental jeweled headdress signifying sovereignty
Source: WordNet® 3.1
diadem (plural diadems)
An ornamental headband worn as a badge of royalty.
A crown.
Regal power; sovereignty; empire—considered as symbolized by the crown.
(heraldry) An arch rising from the rim of a crown (rarely also of a coronet), and uniting with others over its centre.
diadem (third-person singular simple present diadems, present participle diademing, simple past and past participle diademed)
To adorn with a diadem; to crown.
• Maddie, ad idem, mediad
Source: Wiktionary
Di"a*dem, n. Etym: [F. diadème, L. diadema, fr. Gr. da to bind.]
1. Originally, an ornamental head band or fillet, worn by Eastern monarchs as a badge of royalty; hence (later), also, a crown, in general. "The regal diadem." Milton.
2. Regal power; sovereignty; empire; -- considered as symbolized by the crown.
3. (Her.)
Definition: An arch rising from the rim of a crown (rarely also of a coronet), and uniting with others over its center. Diadem lemur. (Zoöl.) See Indri.
– Diadem spider (Zoöl.), the garden spider.
Di"a*dem, v. t.
Definition: To adorn with a diadem; to crown. Not so, when diadem'd with rays divine. Pope. To terminate the evil, To diadem the right. R. H. Neale.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
23 December 2024
(noun) Australian tree having hard white timber and glossy green leaves with white flowers followed by one-seeded glossy blue fruit
Decaffeinated coffee comes from a chemical process that takes out caffeine from the beans. Pharmaceutical and soda companies buy the extracted caffeine.