Word Finder - crown

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A royal, imperial or princely headdress; a diadem.

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• coronet
• diadem

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A wreath or band for the head, especially one given as reward of victory or a mark of honor.

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• garland
• wreath

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(by extension) Any reward of victory or mark of honor.

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the martyr's crown

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• award
• garland
• honor
• prize
• wreath

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Imperial or regal power, or those who wield it.

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• monarchy
• royalty

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(metonym) The sovereign (in a monarchy), as head of state.

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(by extension) The state, the government (headed by a monarch).

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Treasure recovered from shipwrecks automatically becomes property of the Crown.

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The top part of something:

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A kind of spire or lantern formed by converging flying buttresses.

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Splendor; culmination; acme.

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• completion
• culmination
• finish
• splendor

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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.

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A former pre-decimalization British coin worth five shillings.

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• bull
• caroon
• cartwheel
• caser
• coachwheel
• thick-un
• tosh
• tosheroon
• tush
• tusheroon

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The part of a plant where the root and stem meet.

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The top of a tree.

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The part of a tooth above the gums.

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• corona

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A prosthetic covering for a tooth.

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A knot formed in the end of a rope by tucking in the strands to prevent them from unravelling

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The part of an anchor where the arms and the shank meet

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The rounding, or rounded part, of the deck from a level line.

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(in the plural) The bights formed by the turns of a cable.

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In England, a standard size of printing paper measuring 20 × 15 inches.

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In American, a standard size of writing paper measuring 19 × 15 inches.

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A monocyclic ligand having three or more binding sites, capable of holding a guest in a central location

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During childbirth, the appearance of the baby's head from the mother's vagina

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A rounding or smoothing of the barrel opening

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The area enclosed between two concentric perimeters.

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A round spot shaved clean on the top of the head, as a mark of the clerical state; the tonsure.

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A whole bird with the legs and wings removed to produce a joint of white meat.

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A formal hat worn by women to Sunday church services; a church crown.

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The knurled knob or dial, on the outside of a watch case, used to wind it or adjust the hands.

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To place a crown on the head of.

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To formally declare (someone) a king, queen, emperor, etc.

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To bestow something upon as a mark of honour, dignity, or recompense; to adorn; to dignify.

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To form the topmost or finishing part of; to complete; to consummate; to perfect.

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To declare (someone) a winner.

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Of a baby, during the birthing process; for the surface of the baby's head to appear in the vaginal opening.

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The mother was in the second stage of labor and the fetus had just crowned, prompting a round of encouragement from the midwives.

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To cause to round upward; to make anything higher at the middle than at the edges, such as the face of a machine pulley.

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To hit on the head.

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To shoot an opponent in the back of the head with a shotgun in a first-person shooter video game.

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In checkers, to stack two checkers to indicate that the piece has become a king.

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“Crown me!” I said, as I moved my checker to the back row.

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To widen the opening of the barrel.

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To effect a lodgment upon, as upon the crest of the glacis, or the summit of the breach.

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To lay the ends of the strands of (a knot) over and under each other.

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Of, related to, or pertaining to a crown.

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crown prince

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Of, related to, pertaining to the top of a tree or trees.

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a crown fire