English Explanatory Dictionary

corona

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. A large, round, pendent chandelier, with spikes around its upper rim to hold candles or lamps, usually hung from the roof of a church.
  2. An upper or crownlike portion of certain parts of the body.
  3. A region of the skull located along the coronal suture, at the junction between the frontal bone and the two parietal bones.
  4. The external (supragingival) portion of the tooth, covered by enamel; the crown.
  5. The circumference of the base of the glans penis in human males.
  6. The large, flat, projecting member of a cornice which crowns the entablature, situated above the bed moulding and below the cymatium.
  7. The luminous plasma atmosphere of the Sun (the solar corona) or other star, extending millions of kilometres into space, most easily seen during a total solar eclipse.
  8. An oval-shaped astrogeological feature, present on both the planet Venus and Uranus's moon Miranda, probably formed by upwellings of warm material below the surface.
  9. Any luminous or crownlike ring around an object or person.
  10. Any appendage of an organism that resembles a crown or corona (sense 4.1).
  11. A ring or set of appendages of adaxial tissue arising from the corolla or the outer edge of the stamens, present in some plants (Narcissus, Passiflora, etc.); a paraperigonium or paracorolla.
  12. An annular ciliated organ on the head of rotifers, used for locomotion and sweeping food into the mouth.
verb
  1. To surround with a luminous or crownlike ring like the solar corona.
noun
  1. A coronavirus, especially SARS-CoV-2.
  2. A disease caused by a coronavirus, especially COVID-19.
noun
  1. A series of sonnets linked together such that the last word of each is the first word of the next.
noun
  1. A long, straight-sided cigar with a blunt, rounded end.
name
  1. A place in the United States:
  2. An unincorporated community in Walker County, Alabama.
  3. A city in Riverside County, California.
  4. An unincorporated community in Carlton County, Minnesota.
  5. An unincorporated community in Oregon County, Missouri.
  6. A village in Lincoln County, New Mexico.
  7. A neighborhood of the borough of Queens in New York City, New York.
  8. A town in Roberts County, South Dakota.
  9. An unincorporated community in Tipton County, Tennessee, on the Arkansas side of the Mississippi.
  10. A surname from Spanish.
  11. A female given name.
  12. A male given name.
noun
  1. A pale lager beer produced by Mexican brewery Grupo Modelo, commonly served with a wedge of lime or lemon in the neck of the bottle.
  2. Alternative letter-case form of corona (“a coronavirus, especially SARS-CoV-2”).
  3. Alternative letter-case form of corona (“a disease caused by a coronavirus, especially COVID-19”).
  4. Alternative letter-case form of corona (“a long, straight-sided cigar with a blunt, rounded end”).

Pronunciation

/kəˈɹəʊ.nə/ LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-corona.wav kə-rō'nə /kəˈɹoʊ.nə/ /kɵˈronɑ/

Word forms

corona coronas coronae coronæ coronaing coronaed corone

Etymology

The noun is borrowed from Latin corōna (“crown; garland, wreath”), from Ancient Greek κορώνη (korṓnē, “type of crown; curved object (door handle, tip of a bow, stern of a ship, etc.)”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)ker- (“to turn, bend”). The English word is a doublet of crown, korona, koruna, krona, króna, and krone. The plural form coronae is borrowed from Latin corōnae. The verb is derived from the noun.

Synonyms

corona lucis corona glandis penis corona glandis drip larmier corona veneris crown of Venus rona

Related words

Corona Australis Corona Borealis corona glandis coronal corona lucis corona radiata coronary corona seminis coronate coronation corona veneris coroner coronet coroniform

Derived words

anticorona bicorona corona algebra corona baby corona conjecture coronad corona discharge corona effect coronagraph coronagraphy coronal rain corona method corona poling corona ring corona set corona shield coronasomnia corona theorem corona tube coronavirus coronectomy coronite coronium coronoapical coronograph coronule corotron E-corona F-corona geocorona hebesphenomegacorona K-corona multicorona protein corona solar corona sphenocorona sphenomegacorona tricorona ultracorona coronaed corona belly corona blues corona bond corona party coronaphobia coronasceptic corona-wise coronoia rona

Translations

Finnish: laki Finnish: kruunu Finnish: korona Dutch: corona Finnish: korona Macedonian: коро́на Polish: korona Russian: коро́на
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