Meaning of crown | Babel Free

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1. A royal, imperial or princely headdress; a diadem
2. A royal, imperial or princely headdress; a diadem.
3. The sovereign of a monarchy; often with reference to that of the Commonwealth realms.
4. A wreath or band for the head, especially one given as reward of victory or a mark of honor
5. To reach a stage in labor when a large segment of the fetal scalp is visible at the vaginal orifice. Used of a fetus.
6. A wreath or band for the head, especially one given as reward of victory or a mark of honor.
7. The government of a monarchy; often with reference to one that is a member of the Commonwealth realms.
8. Any reward of victory or mark of honor
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10. Any reward of victory or mark of honor.
    broadly
11. A Crown attorney.
    Canada
12. Imperial or regal power, or those who wield it
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14. Imperial or regal power, or those who wield it.
15. The sovereign (in a monarchy), as head of state
16. An ornamental circlet or head covering, often made of precious metal set with jewels and worn as a symbol of sovereignty.
17. The sovereign (in a monarchy), as head of state.
    metonymically
18. often Crowna. The power, position, or empire of a monarch or of a state governed by constitutional monarchy.
19. The state, the government (headed by a monarch).
    broadly, especially
20. A distinction or reward for achievement, especially a title signifying championship in a sport.
21. The police (referring to Crown Victoria police cars).
22. Something resembling a diadem in shape.
23. The top part of something:
24. The topmost part of the head.
25. A coin stamped with a crown or crowned head on one side.
26. During childbirth, the appearance of the baby's head from the mother's vagina.
27. The top or highest part of the head.
28. A round spot shaved clean on the top of the head, as a mark of the clerical state; the tonsure.
29. The top or upper part of a hat.
30. The highest part of a hill.
31. The top section of a hat, above the brim.
32. The raised centre of a road.
33. The highest part of an arch.
34. The upper range of facets in a rose diamond.
35. The dome of a furnace.
36. The upper part of certain fruits, as the pineapple or strawberry, that is removed before eating.
37. The top of a tree.
38. A kind of spire or lantern formed by converging flying buttresses.
39. Splendor; culmination; acme.
40. 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 korona, koruna, krona, króna, krone.
41. A former predecimalization British coin worth five shillings.
    historical
42. A coin or note worth five shillings in various countries that are or were in the British Commonwealth, such as Ireland or Jamaica.
    broadly, historical
43. The part of a plant where the root and stem meet.
44. The part of a tooth above the gums.
45. A prosthetic covering for a tooth.
46. A knot formed in the end of a rope by tucking in the strands to prevent them from unravelling.
47. The part of an anchor where the arms and the shank meet.
48. The rounding, or rounded part, of the deck from a level line.
49. A standard size of printing paper measuring 20 × 15 inches.
    UK
50. A standard size of writing paper measuring 19 × 15 inches.
    US
51. A monocyclic ligand having three or more binding sites, capable of holding a guest in a central location.
52. A rounding or smoothing of the barrel opening.
53. The area enclosed between two concentric perimeters.
54. A whole bird with the legs and wings removed to produce a joint of white meat.
55. A formal hat worn by women to Sunday church services; a church crown.
    colloquial
56. The knurled knob or dial, on the outside of a watch case, used to wind it or adjust the hands.

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Examples

“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.”

“the martyr’s crown”

“A parliament may be diſſolved by the demiſe of the crown.”

“Treasure recovered from shipwrecks automatically becomes property of the Crown.”

“Large arrears of pay were due to the civil and military servants of the crown; and only forty thousand pounds remained in the Exchequer.”

“[...]if he awake, / From toe to crowne hee'l fill our skin with pinches, / Make vs ſtrange ſtuffe.”

“In more than twenty things, which I ſet down; / This done, I twenty more had in my Crown, / And they again began to multiply, / Like ſparks that from the coals of fire do fly.”

“Huge Trunks of Trees, fell'd from the ſteepy Crown / Of the bare Mountains, rowl with Ruin down.”

“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 shouting with a thousand rills.”

“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 Wetterhorn.”

“Watt was beginning to tire of running his eyes up and down this highway, when a figure, human apparently, advancing along its crown, arrested, and revived, his attention.”

“The arch failed first at the crown, then at the quarterings, and finally at the springings.”

“Holonym: canopy”

“[…] happie in our mutual help/ And mutual love, the Crown of all our bliſs/ Ordain'd by thee, […]”

“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 cartwheel, or a coachwheel, or a thick-un, or a tusheroon.”

“There is no difficulty getting married in Jamaica, is there? No, it only costs half a crown.”

“Maggie Murphy had some knickers that she bought in Bagenalstown, an interlock of knickers that she got for a half a crown.”

“The honest, rough piece of iron, so simple in appearance, has more parts than the human body has limbs: the ring, the stock, the crown, the flukes, the palms, the shank. All this, according to the journalist, is “cast” when a ship arriving at an anchorage is brought up.”

“When these TV chefs show you that they can cook a turkey crown in 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.”

“"His [Barack Obama's] unofficial slogan 'fired up and ready to go!' was borrowed from an 'old lady in a church crown [Sunday best hat]."”

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