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crown

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The crown of King Christian IV of Denmark
The crown of a watch (sense 30)
The crown (G,sense 19) of an anchor

Etymology 1

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FromMiddle Englishcoroune,fromAnglo-Normancorone,fromLatincorōna(“crown, wreath”),fromAncient Greekκορώνη(korṓnē).Doubletofcorona,korona,koruna,krona,króna,andkrone.Displaced nativeOld Englishcorenbēag(“crown”);andMiddle Englishkinehelm,kynehelm,fromOld Englishcynehelm(“crown”).

  • (paper size):So called because originally watermarked with a crown.

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crown(pluralcrowns)

  2. (clothing,monarchy)Aroyal,imperial or princely headdress; adiadem.
    Synonyms:coronet,diadem
    • 1945September and October, C. Hamilton Ellis, “Royal Trains—V”, inRailway Magazine,page250:
      Before so many of Europe'scrownscame tumbling off the heads of their royal owners, Continental Europe could show a rich variety in the matter of royal trains.
  4. Awreathor band for the head, especially one given as reward of victory or a mark ofhonor.
    Synonyms:garland,wreath
  6. (by extension)Any reward of victory or mark of honor.
    Synonyms:award,garland,honor,prize,wreath
    the martyr’scrown
  8. Imperial or regal power, or those who wield it.
    Synonyms:monarchy,royalty
  10. (metonymically)Thesovereign(in a monarchy), as head of state.
  12. (by extension,especially inlaw)The state, the government (headed by a monarch).
    Treasure recovered from shipwrecks automatically becomes property of theCrown.
  13. (oldslang)Thepolice(referring to Crown Victoria police cars).
  15. The top part of something:
    2. The topmost part of thehead.
      Synonyms:apex,top
    4. The highest part of a hill.
      Synonyms:apex,crest,hillcrest,peak,summit,top
      Antonyms:base,bottom,foot
      • 1697,Virgil,“The Sixth Book of theÆneis”,inJohn Dryden,transl.,The Works of Virgil: Containing His Pastorals, Georgics, and Æneis.[…],London:[…]Jacob Tonson,[…],→OCLC,page370,lines267–268:
        Huge Trunks of Trees, fell'd from the ſteepyCrown/ Of the bare Mountains, rowl with Ruin down.
      • 1829,Edgar Allan Poe,“Tamerlane”,inAl Aaraaf, Tamerlane and Minor Poems:
        We walk’d together on thecrown/Of a high mountain which look’d down/Afar from its proud natural towers/Of rock and forest, on the hills—/The dwindled hills! begirt with bowers/And shouting with a thousand rills.
      • 1960December, Voyageur, “The Mountain Railways of the Bernese Oberland”, inTrains Illustrated,page752:
        So we continue climbing to the saddle of the Kleine Scheidegg, where ahead there comes into view the wide expanse of the Grindelwald valley, backed by the snowycrownof the Wetterhorn.
    6. The top section of ahat,above thebrim.
    8. The raised centre of a road.
      • 1953,Samuel Beckett,Watt,1st American edition, New York, N.Y.:Grove Press,published1959,→OCLC:
        Watt was beginning to tire of running his eyes up and down this highway, when a figure, human apparently, advancing along itscrown,arrested, and revived, his attention.
    9. The highest part of an arch.
      • 1941February, “Bridge demolition by lifting”, inRailway Magazine,page74:
        The arch failed first at thecrown,then at the quarterings, and finally at the springings.
    10. The upper range offacetsin arose diamond.
    11. Thedomeof afurnace.
    12. The upper part of certainfruits,as thepineappleorstrawberry,that is removed before eating.
  17. (architecture)A kind ofspireorlanternformed by convergingflying buttresses.
  19. Splendor; culmination; acme.
    Synonyms:completion,culmination,finish,splendor
    • 1667,John Milton,“Book IV”, inParadise Lost.[…],London:[…][Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker[…];[a]nd by Robert Boulter[…];[a]nd Matthias Walker,[…],→OCLC;republished asParadise Lost in Ten Books:[…],London: Basil Montagu Pickering[…],1873,→OCLC,lines727–729:
      [...] happie in our mutual help/ And mutual love, theCrownof all our bliſs/ Ordain'd by thee, [...]
  21. 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 thekorona,koruna,krona,króna,krone.
  23. (historical)AformerpredecimalizationBritishcoinworthfiveshillings.
    Synonyms:caser,tusheroon,tush,tosheroon,tosh,bull,caroon,thick-un,coachwheel,cartwheel
  25. (historical,by extension)A coin or note worth fiveshillingsin various countries that are or were in the BritishCommonwealth,such asIrelandorJamaica.
    • 1866,Jamaica. Report of the Royal Jamaica Commission, 1866. Part II: Minutes of Evidence and Appendix‎[1],H.M.Stationery Office, page558:
      There is no difficulty getting married in Jamaica, is there? No, it only costs half acrown.
    • 2009,“Maggie Murphy's Knickers” (track 8), inStay Wut Her Johnny‎[2],performed byRichie Kavanagh:
      Maggie Murphy had some knickers that she bought inBagenalstown,an interlock of knickers that she got for a half acrown.
  27. (botany)The part of a plant where the root and stem meet.
  29. (forestry)The top of a tree.
    Holonym:canopy
  31. (anatomy,dentistry)The part of a tooth above the gums.
    Synonym:corona
  33. (dentistry)Aprostheticcovering for atooth.
    Synonyms:dental crown,dental cap
  34. (nautical)Aknotformed in the end of a rope by tucking in thestrandsto prevent them from unravelling.
  36. (nautical)The part of ananchorwhere thearmsand theshankmeet.
    • 1904–1906,Joseph Conrad,chapter IV, inThe Mirror of the Sea,1st American edition, New York, N.Y., London:Harper & Brothers,published October 1906,→OCLC:
      The honest, rough piece of iron, so simple in appearance, has more parts than the human body has limbs: the ring, the stock, thecrown,the flukes, the palms, the shank. All this, according to the journalist, is “cast” when a ship arriving at an anchorage is brought up.
  37. (nautical)Therounding,orroundedpart, of thedeckfrom a level line.
  39. (paper)In England, a standard size ofprinting papermeasuring 20 × 15 inches.
  40. (paper)In American, a standard size ofwriting papermeasuring 19 × 15 inches.
  41. (chemistry)Amonocyclicligandhaving three or more binding sites, capable of holding a guest in a central location.
  42. (medicine)During childbirth, the appearance of the baby's head from the mother's vagina.
  43. (firearms)A rounding or smoothing of the barrel opening.
  44. (geometry)The area enclosed between twoconcentricperimeters.
  45. (religion)A round spot shaved clean on the top of the head, as a mark of the clerical state; thetonsure.
  46. A wholebirdwith thelegsandwingsremoved to produce a joint ofwhite meat.
    • 2012,Paul Treyvaud,The Hooker in the Lobby:
      When these TV chefs show you that they can cook a turkeycrownin less than two hours; they aren't magicians or have secret turkey suppliers. The twenty minute per pound rule is based on our grandparents' ovens.
  47. (African-American Vernacular,colloquial)A formal hat worn by women to Sunday church services; achurch crown.
    • 2013,Adam Boulton,Tony's Ten Years: Memories of the Blair Administration‎[3]:
      "His [Barack Obama's] unofficial slogan 'fired up and ready to go!' was borrowed from an 'old lady in a churchcrown[Sunday best hat]. "
  49. (horology)The knurledknobordial,on the outside of awatchcase, used to wind it or adjust thehands.
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  • →Japanese:クラウン(kuraun)
  • →Korean:크라운(keuraun)
  • →Maori:karauna
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Adjective

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crown(notcomparable)

  1. Of, related to, or pertaining to a crown.
    crownprince
  2. Of, related to, pertaining to the top of atreeor trees.
    acrownfire
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crown(third-person singular simple presentcrowns,present participlecrowning,simple past and past participlecrowned)

  1. To place a crown on the head of.
    • 2012,Poul Anderson(lyrics), performed byLeslie Fish,“The Ballad of Three Kings” inAvalon is Risen,originally published (in variant form) in Poul Anderson, “Three Kings”,Amra,volume 2, number 64 (1975):
      The king of the Huns was crowned with steel, and rode a stallion red,/Saying: “Proud must my father’s spirit feel of me whocrownedmy head[…]”
  2. To formally declare (someone) aking,queen,emperor,etc.
  3. To bestow something upon as a mark of honour, dignity, or recompense; to adorn; to dignify.
  4. To form the topmost or finishing part of; to complete; to consummate; to perfect.
  5. Todeclare(someone) awinner.
    • 2011October 23, Tom Fordyce, “2011 Rugby World Cup final: New Zealand 8-7 France”, inBBC Sport‎[4]:
      New Zealand werecrownedworld champions for the first time in 24 years after squeezing past an inspired France team by a single point.
  6. (medicine)Of ababy,during thebirthingprocess; for the surface of the baby's head to appear in thevaginalopening.
    The mother was in the second stage of labor and the fetus had justcrowned,prompting a round of encouragement from the midwives.
    • 2007,David Schottke, American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons,First Responder: Your First Response in Emergency Care,page 385
      You will see the baby's headcrowningduring contractions, at which time you must prepare to assist the mother in the delivery of the baby.
    • 2010,Scott Gallagher,Dancing Upon the Shore,page157:
      He'scrowning...His head's coming through
  7. (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.
  8. To hit on the head.
    • 1963,Margery Allingham,chapter 6, inThe China Governess: A Mystery,London:Chatto & Windus,→OCLC:
      ‘[…]I remember a lady coming to inspect St. Mary's Home where I was brought up and seeing us all in our lovely Elizabethan uniforms we were so proud of, and bursting into tears all over us because “it was wicked to dress us like charity children”. We nearlycrownedher we were so offended. She saw us but she didn't know us, did she?’.
  9. (video games)To shoot an opponent in the back of the head with a shotgun in a first-person shooter video game.
  10. (board games)Incheckers,tostacktwo checkers to indicate that the piece has become aking.
    “Crownme!” I said, as I moved my checker to the back row.
  11. Of aforest fireorbushfire,to spread to the crowns of thetreesand thence move from tree to tree independent of the surface fire.
  12. (firearms)To widen the opening of the barrel.
  13. (military)To effect alodgmentupon, as upon thecrestof theglacis,or thesummitof thebreach.
  14. (nautical)To lay the ends of the strands of (a knot) over and under each other.
  15. (intransitive,slang)To be on the point ofdefecating.
    Synonym:grow a tail
    • 2020,Eddy Keymolen,amerikanischen Umgangssprache,page148:
      Where's the bathroom, I'mcrowninghere!
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Etymology 2

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crown

  1. (archaic)pastparticipleofcrow
    • 1823,Byron,Don Juan:
      The cock hadcrown.

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Middle English

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crown

  1. Alternative form ofcoroune
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