Definitions for Crown

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Crown crown

Spelling: [kroun]

IPA: /kraʊn/

Crown is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 10 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 12 points.

You can make 44 anagrams from letters in Crown (cnorw).

Definitions for Crown

noun

1. any of various types of headgear worn by a monarch as a symbol of sovereignty, often made of precious metal and ornamented with valuable gems.
2. a similar ornamental headgear worn by a person designated king or queen in a pageant, contest, etc.
3. an ornamental wreath or circlet for the head, conferred by the ancients as a mark of victory, athletic or military distinction, etc.
4. the distinction that comes from a great achievement.
5. the power or dominion of a sovereign.
6. (often initial capital letter) the sovereign as head of the state, or the supreme governing power of a state under a monarchical government.
7. any crownlike emblem or design, as in a heraldic crest.
8. the top or highest part of anything, as of a hat or a mountain.
9. the top of the head:
10. Dentistry. the part of a tooth that is covered by enamel. an artificial substitute, as of gold or porcelain, for the crown of a tooth.
11. the highest point of any construction of convex section or outline, as an arch, vault, deck, or road.
12. the highest or most nearly perfect state of anything.
13. an exalting or chief attribute.
14. the acme or supreme source of honor, excellence, beauty, etc.
15. something having the form of a crown, as the corona of a flower.
16. Botany. the leaves and living branches of a tree. the point at which the root of a seed plant joins the stem. a circle of appendages on the throat of the corolla; corona.
17. the crest, as of a bird.
18. Architecture. a termination of a tower consisting of a lanternlike steeple supported entirely by a number of flying buttresses. any ornamental termination of a tower or turret.
19. Also called button. Horology. a knurled knob for winding a watch.
20. any of various coins bearing the figure of a crown or crowned head.
21. a former silver coin of the United Kingdom, equal to five shillings: retained in circulation equal to 25 new pence after decimalization in 1971.
22. the monetary unit of Denmark, Iceland, Norway, or Sweden: a krona or krone.
23. the koruna of the former Czechoslovakia. the koruna of the Czech Republic.
24. a crimped metal bottle cap.
25. crown glass.
26. Cookery. crown roast.
27. Also called bezel, top. Jewelry. the part of a cut gem above the girdle.
28. a drill bit consisting of a metal matrix holding diamond chips.
29. Also called head. Nautical. the part of an anchor at which the arms join the shank.
30. Machinery. a slight convexity given to a pulley supporting a flat belt in order to center the belt. a slight convexity given to the outer faces of the teeth of two gears so that they mesh toward their centers rather than at the ends.
31. a size of printing paper, 15 × 20 inches (38 × 51 cm). Compare double crown.
32. Nautical, Machinery. swallow1 (def 13).
33. Knots. a knot made by interweaving the strands at the end of a rope, often made as the beginning of a back splice or as the first stage in tying a more elaborate knot.
34. a crownpiece.
35. the characteristic cry of a rooster.
36. an inarticulate cry of pleasure.

verb (used with object)

1. to invest with a regal crown, or with regal dignity and power.
2. to place a crown or garland upon the head of.
3. to honor or reward; invest with honor, dignity, etc.
4. to be at the top or highest part of.
5. to complete worthily; bring to a successful or triumphant conclusion:
6. Informal. to hit on the top of the head:
7. to give to (a construction) an upper surface of convex section or outline.
8. to cap (a tooth) with a false crown.
9. Checkers. to change (a checker) into a king after having safely reached the last row.
10. Knots. to form a crown on (the end of a rope).

verb (used without object)

1. Medicine/Medical. (of a baby in childbirth) to reach a stage in delivery where the largest diameter of the fetal head is emerging from the pelvic outlet.
2. to utter the characteristic cry of a rooster.
3. to gloat, boast, or exult (often followed by over).
4. to utter an inarticulate cry of pleasure, as an infant does.

Origin of Crown

1125-75; Middle English coroune, cr(o)une Anglo-French coroune Latin corōna wreath; see corona

Examples for Crown

But, he says, what ultimately makes a hat look good on a person is the symmetry of the crown of their head to their jaw line.

The martyr's crown awaits them, for they display the martyr's spirit.

At 3:45 am Sunday police arrested 29 year-old Eric Linsker at his apartment in the crown Heights section of Brooklyn.

As I size up the scene, Jack White now wears the crown … and he wears it well.

I wonder that they have not wit to learn English now that they have come under the English crown.

This gives Nagrani greater satisfaction than to have Esquire last year crown his socks “the best in the world”.

She took the crown from her head with her own hands, and ceased to be the ruler of Sweden.

Why, you jack-fool, what would it be about save who should wear the crown of France?

No fear of any trouble from him after that, in the way of plots for the crown, or things of that sort.

Later, back in the graces of the French crown, he was appointed commander of the Missouri and built Fort Orleans in 1723.