OXFORD 9000
📚 noun • entry_id 3969

crown

/kɹaʊn/
Meanings (ES + gloss)
corona
A royal, imperial or princely headdress; a diadem.
Before so many of Europe's crowns came tumbling off the heads of their royal owners, Continental Europe could show a rich variety in the matter of royal trains.
corona • guirnalda
A wreath or band for the head, especially one given as reward of victory or a mark of honor.
corona
Imperial or regal power, or those who wield it.
corona • cumbre • pico
The top part of something:
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 snowy crown of the Wetter…
We walk’d together on the crown/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…
corona
A former predecimalization British coin worth five shillings.
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 car…
corona
The part of a tooth above the gums.
corona • corona circular
The area enclosed between two concentric perimeters.
Word forms
📚 verb • entry_id 3970

crown

/kɹaʊn/
Meanings (ES + gloss)
coronar
To place a crown on the head of.
The king of the Huns was crowned with steel, and rode a stallion red,/Saying: “Proud must my father’s spirit feel of me who crowned my head […]”
coronar
To declare (someone) a winner.
New Zealand were crowned world champions for the first time in 24 years after squeezing past an inspired France team by a single point.