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.
the martyr's crown
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).
Treasure recovered from shipwrecks automatically becomes property of the Crown.
The top part of something:
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.
A former pre-decimalization British coin worth five shillings.
The part of a plant where the root and stem meet.
The top of a tree.
The part of a tooth above the gums.
A prosthetic covering for a tooth.
A knot formed in the end of a rope by tucking in the strands to prevent them from unravelling
The part of an anchor where the arms and the shank meet
The rounding, or rounded part, of the deck from a level line.
(in the plural) The bights formed by the turns of a cable.
In England, a standard size of printing paper measuring 20 × 15 inches.
In American, a standard size of writing paper measuring 19 × 15 inches.
A monocyclic ligand having three or more binding sites, capable of holding a guest in a central location
During childbirth, the appearance of the baby's head from the mother's vagina
A rounding or smoothing of the barrel opening
The area enclosed between two concentric perimeters.
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.
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.
To place a crown on the head of.
To formally declare (someone) a king, queen, emperor, etc.
To bestow something upon as a mark of honour, dignity, or recompense; to adorn; to dignify.
To form the topmost or finishing part of; to complete; to consummate; to perfect.
To declare (someone) a winner.
Of a baby, during the birthing process; for the surface of the baby's head to appear in the vaginal opening.
The mother was in the second stage of labor and the fetus had just crowned, prompting a round of encouragement from the midwives.
To cause to round upward; to make anything higher at the middle than at the edges, such as the face of a machine pulley.
To hit on the head.
To shoot an opponent in the back of the head with a shotgun in a first-person shooter video game.
In checkers, to stack two checkers to indicate that the piece has become a king.
“Crown me!” I said, as I moved my checker to the back row.
To widen the opening of the barrel.
To effect a lodgment upon, as upon the crest of the glacis, or the summit of the breach.
To lay the ends of the strands of (a knot) over and under each other.
Of, related to, or pertaining to a crown.
crown prince
Of, related to, pertaining to the top of a tree or trees.
a crown fire
To make the shrill sound characteristic of a rooster; to make a sound in this manner, either in gaiety, joy, pleasure, or defiance.
To shout in exultation or defiance; to brag.
He’s been crowing all day about winning the game of cards.
To test the reed of a double reed instrument by placing the reed alone in the mouth and blowing it.