crown

English

/kɹaʊn/, /kɹoʊn/

noun
Definitions
  • 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.
  • (by extension) Any reward of victory or mark of honor.
  • Imperial or regal power, or those who wield it.
  • (metonym) The sovereign (in a monarchy), as head of state.
  • (by extension) The state, the government (headed by a monarch).
  • The top part of something:
  • (architecture) A kind of spire or lantern formed by converging flying buttresses.
  • Splendor; culmination; acme.
  • 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.
  • (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.
  • (dentistry) A prosthetic covering for a tooth.
  • (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) The bights formed by the turns of a cable.
  • (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
  • (medical) During childbirth, the appearance of the baby's head from the mother's vagina
  • (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.
  • (AAVE) 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.

Etymology

Inherited from Middle English coroune derived from coroune derived from Latin corōna (crown, garland, wreath) derived from Ancient Greek κορώνη (wreath, garland, a type of crown, perhaps shearwater, anything curved, anything curved hooked, crown, a type of sea-bird, tip, end, something curved, point, curved stern of a ship, crow, a crow) inherited from Old English bēag (crown, necklace, bracelet, collar, ring, garland, a ring, a shackle for the neck, a circle, coil).

Origin

Old English

bēag

Gloss

crown, necklace, bracelet, collar, ring, garland, a ring, a shackle for the neck, a circle, coil

Concept
Semantic Field

The body

Ontological Category

Person/Thing

Kanji

襟

Emoji
👸 🤴

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