different between drowner vs crowner

English

Etymology

drown +? -er

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?d?a?n?(?)/

Noun

drowner (plural drowners)

1. Someone who dies by drowning.
   • 2017, Ronald V. Clarke, Suicide: Closing the Exits

     With the jumpers and the drowners, McGee, you don't pick up a pattern. That's because a jumper damned near always makes it the first time, and a drowner is usually almost as successful, about the same rate as hangers.

2. One who drowns another.
   • 1950, Henry Morton Robinson, The Cardinal

     At eight you thought of boys as cat drowners and bird stoners. At nine there was another reason for boys' existence: they either noticed you or they didn't, and it desperately mattered which.

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?k?a?n?(?)/
• Rhymes: -a?n?(?)

Etymology 1

From Middle English crowner, crownere, equivalent to crown +? -er.

Noun

crowner (plural crowners)

1. One who, or that which, crowns.

   • Oh, thou mother of delights, / Crowner of all happy nights, / Star of dear content and pleasure, / Of mutual loves the endless treasure!

Translations

Etymology 2

From Middle English crouner, variant of coroner.

Noun

crowner (plural crowners)

2. (obsolete, Britain, Scotland) coroner

Anagrams

• recrown

Middle English

Noun

crowner

1. Alternative form of coroner