Crown
- Noun. A reward of victory or a mark of honor.
- Noun. A royal, imperial or princely headdress; a diadem.
- Noun. A representation of such a headdress, as in heraldry; it may even be that only the image exists, no physical crown, as in the case of the kingdom of Belgium; by analogy such crowns can be awarded to moral persons that don't even have a head, as the mural crown for cities in heraldry.
- Noun. A wreath or band for the head.
- Noun. Imperial or regal power, or those who wield it.
- Noun. The topmost part of the head.
- Noun. The highest part a hill.
- Noun. The top part of a hat.
- Noun. The raised centre of a road.
- Noun. The highest part of an arch.
- Noun. Splendor, finish, culmination.
- Noun. Any currency (originally) issued by the crown (regal power) and often bearing a crown (headdress).
- Noun. Specifically, a former British coin worth five shillings.
- Noun. (botany) The part of a plant where the root and stem meet.
- Noun. (anatomy) The part of a tooth above the gums.
- Noun. (dentistry) A prosthetic covering for a tooth..
- Noun. (nautical) A knot formed in the end of a rope by tucking in the strands to prevent them from unravelling.
- Noun. (nautical) The part of an anchor where the arms and the shank meet.
- Noun. (context, paper) A standard size of printing paper measuring 20 inches x 15 inches.
- Noun. (chemistry) A monocyclic ligand having three or more binding sites, capable of holding a guest in a central location.
- Noun. (medical) During childbirth, the appearance of the baby's head from the mother's vagina.
- Adjective. Of, related to, or pertaining to a crown.
- Adjective. Of, related to, pertaining to the top of a tree or trees.
- Verb. To place a crown on the head of.
- Verb. To formally declare (someone) a king or emperor.
- Verb. To declare (someone) a winner.
- Verb. (medicine) Of a baby, during the birthing process; for the surface of the baby's head to appear in the vaginal opening.
- Verb. (transitive) To cause to round upward; to make anything higher at the middle than at the edges, such as the face of a machine pulley.
- Verb. To hit on the head.
- Verb. (video games) To shoot an opponent in the back of the head with a shotgun in a first-person shooter video game.
- Verb. (context, board games) In checkers, to stack two checkers to indicate that the piece has become a king.
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