crown

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.

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

Any reward of victory or mark of honor.broadly

• the martyr’s crown

Imperial or regal power, or those who wield it.

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

• A parliament may be diſſolved by the demiſe of the crown.

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

• Treasure recovered from shipwrecks automatically becomes property of the Crown.

The police (referring to Crown Victoria police cars).datedslang

The top part of something:; The topmost part of the head.

• [...]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.

The top part of something:; The topmost part of the head.

The top part of something:; The topmost part of the head.

Of, related to, or pertaining to a crown.not-comparable

• crown prince

Of, related to, pertaining to the top of a tree or trees.not-comparable

• a crown fire

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 […]”

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

• Her, vvho faireſt does appear, / Crovvn her Queen of all the year.

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

• Thou […] hast crowned him with glory and honour.

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

• the grove that crowns yon tufted hill
• To crown the whole, came a proposition.

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.

To have its head's surface appear in the vaginal opening during the birthing process.

• The mother was in the second stage of labor and the fetus had just crowned, prompting a round of encouragement from the midwives.
• You will see the baby's head crowning during contractions, at which time you must prepare to assist the mother in the delivery of the baby.

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

To hit on the head.

• ‘[…] I remember a lady coming to inspect St. Mary's Home where I was brought up and seeing us all in our lovely Elizabethan uniforms we were so proud of, and bursting into tears all over us because “it was wicked to dress us like charity ch

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.

past participle of crowarchaicform-ofparticiple

• The cock had crown.