crown
Meanings
noun
- A royal, imperial or princely headdress; a diadem.
- A wreath or band for the head, especially one given as reward of victory or a mark of honor.
- Any reward of victory or mark of honor.
- Imperial or regal power, or those who wield it.
- The sovereign (in a monarchy), as head of state.
- The state, the government (headed by a monarch).
- The police (referring to Crown Victoria police cars).
- The top part of something:
- The topmost part of the head.
- During childbirth, the appearance of the baby's head from the mother's vagina.
- A round spot shaved clean on the top of the head, as a mark of the clerical state; the tonsure.
- The highest part of a hill.
adj
- Of, related to, or pertaining to a crown.
- Of, related to, pertaining to the top of a tree or trees.
verb
- 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.
- Of a baby, during the birthing process; for the surface of the baby's head to appear in the vaginal opening.
- 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.
- To shoot an opponent in the back of the head with a shotgun in a first-person shooter video game.
- In checkers, to stack two checkers to indicate that the piece has become a king.
- 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.
- To widen the opening of the barrel.
verb
- past participle of crow
name
- The sovereign of a monarchy; often with reference to that of the Commonwealth realms.
- The government of a monarchy; often with reference to one that is a member of the Commonwealth realms.
- A Crown attorney.
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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.
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