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crown
English
Etymology 1
From Middle English coroune, croune, crowne, from Anglo-Norman coroune, curune, corone (French couronne), from Latin cor?na (“garland, crown, wreath”), from Ancient Greek ?????? (kor?n?). Doublet of corona. Displaced Middle English: beigh, bei?, b?, bi?, by fromOld English b?ag (“crown, garland, necklace”).
- (paper size): So called because originally watermarked with a crown.
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation, US) IPA(key): /k?a?n/
- Rhymes: -a?n
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
- (metonymically) The sovereign (in a monarchy), as head of state.
- (by extension, especially in law) 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.
- The upper part of certain fruits, as the pineapple or strawberry, that is removed before eating.
- The topmost part of the head.
- (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
- 1859, J.C. Hotten, A Dictionary of Modern Slang, Cant, and Vulgar Words:
- 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.
- (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.
- Synonyms: dental crown, dental cap
- (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.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Totten to this entry?)
- (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
- (medicine) During childbirth, the appearance of the baby's head from the mother's vagina
- 2007, David Schottke, American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons, First Responder: Your First Response in Emergency Care, page 385
- 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.
- 2007, David Schottke, American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons, First Responder: Your First Response in Emergency Care, page 385
- (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.
Derived terms
Descendants
- ? Japanese: ???? (kuraun)
- ? Maori: karauna
Translations
Adjective
crown (not comparable)
- Of, related to, or pertaining to a crown.
- Of, related to, pertaining to the top of a tree or trees.
Translations
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.
- 1665, John Dryden, The Indian Emperour
- Her who fairest does appear,
Crown her queen of all the year.
- Her who fairest does appear,
- 1665, John Dryden, The Indian Emperour
- To bestow something upon as a mark of honour, dignity, or recompense; to adorn; to dignify.
- Thou […] hast crowned him with glory and honour.
- To form the topmost or finishing part of; to complete; to consummate; to perfect.
- 1856, John Lothrop Motley, The Rise of the Dutch Republic
- To crown the whole, came a proposition.
- 1856, John Lothrop Motley, The Rise of the Dutch Republic
- 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.
- 2010 Scott Gallagher Dancing Upon the Shore pg 157
- He's crowning . . . His head's coming through
- 2010 Scott Gallagher Dancing Upon the Shore pg 157
- (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.
- (slang) being about to take a poop (usually trying to hold it in, derived from obstetric use: metaphor of "giving birth" to solid poo)
- Synonym: grow a tail
- 2020, Eddy Keymolen, amerikanischen Umgangssprache page 148
- Where's the bathroom, I'm crowning here!
Derived terms
- crowned
Translations
See also
- coronation
- ????
Etymology 2
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /k?o?n/
- Rhymes: -o?n
Verb
crown
- (archaic) past participle of crow
- 1823, Byron, Don Juan
- The cock had crown.
- 1823, Byron, Don Juan
Middle English
Noun
crown
- Alternative form of coroune
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kingmaking
English
Etymology
king +? making
Noun
kingmaking (usually uncountable, plural kingmakings)
- The ceremony of crowning a king, or any similar ceremony of endowing a person with high office.
- In games, a strategy or design where one player (often the losing one) essentially gets to pick who wins.
Verb
kingmaking
- present participle of kingmake
Related terms
- kingmaker
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