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| crowning | |
| 1. adj. Supreme; of a surpassing quality or quantity. |  |
| a crowning achievement | |
| crowning glory | |
| 2. n. A coronation. | |
| The crownings of the two successive monarchs were only a year apart. | |
| 3. n. The act of one who crowns (in various senses). | |
| crown | |
| 1. n. A royal, imperial or princely headdress; a diadem. | |
| 2. n. (heraldry) 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 a | |
| 3. n. A wreath or band for the head, especially one given as reward of victory or a mark of honor. | |
| 4. n. (by extension) Any reward of victory or mark of honor. | |
| the martyr's crown | |
| 5. n. Imperial or regal power, or those who wield it. | |
| 6. n. (metonym) The sovereign (in a monarchy), as head of state. | |
| 7. n. (by extension, especially in legal) The state, the government (headed by a monarch). | |
| Treasure recovered from shipwrecks automatically becomes property of the Crown. | |
| 8. n. The topmost part of the head. | |
| 9. n. The highest part of a hill. | |
| 10. n. 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 | |
| 11. n. (historical) A former pre-decimalization British coin worth five shillings. | |
| 12. n. (botany) The part of a plant where the root and stem meet. | |
| 13. n. (forestry) The top of a tree. | |
| 14. n. (anatomy) The part of a tooth above the gums. | |
| 15. n. (dentistry) A prosthetic covering for a tooth. | |
| 16. n. (nautical) A knot formed in the end of a rope by tucking in the strands to prevent them from unravelling | |
| 17. n. (nautical) The part of an anchor where the arms and the shank meet | |
| 18. n. (nautical) The rounding, or rounded part, of the deck from a level line. | |
| 19. n. (nautical, in the plural) The bights formed by the turns of a cable. | |
| 20. n. (paper) In England, a standard size of printing paper measuring 20 x 15 inches. | |
| 21. n. (paper) In American, a standard size of writing paper measuring 19 x 15 inches. | |
| 22. n. (chemistry) A monocyclic ligand having three or more binding sites, capable of holding a guest in a central location | |
| 23. n. (medical) During childbirth, the appearance of the baby's head from the mother's vagina | |
| 24. n. (firearms) A rounding or smoothing of the barrel opening | |
| 25. n. The upper range of facets in a rose diamond. | |
| 26. n. The dome of a furnace. | |
| 27. n. (geometry) The area enclosed between two concentric perimeters. | |
| 28. n. (religion) A round spot shaved clean on the top of the head, as a mark of the clerical state; the tonsure. | |
| 29. n. A whole turkey with the legs and wings removed to produce a joint of white meat. | |
| 30. n. The knurled knob or dial, on the outside of a watch case, used to wind it or adjust the hands | |
| 31. adj. Of, related to, or pertaining to a crown. | |
| crown prince | |
| 32. adj. Of, related to, pertaining to the top of a tree or trees. | |
| a crown fire | |
| 33. v. To place a crown on the head of. | |
| 34. v. To formally declare (someone) a king, queen, emperor, etc. | |
| 35. v. To bestow something upon as a mark of honour, dignity, or recompense; to adorn; to dignify. | |
| 36. v. To form the topmost or finishing part of; to complete; to consummate; to perfect. | |
| 37. v. To declare (someone) a winner. | |
| 38. v. (medicine) 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. | |
| 39. v. To cause to round upward; to make anything higher at the middle than at the edges, such as the face of a machine pulley. | |
| 40. v. To hit on the head. | |
| 41. v. (board games) 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. | |
| 42. v. (firearms) To widen the opening of the barrel. | |
| 43. v. (military) To effect a lodgment upon, as upon the crest of the glacis, or the summit of the breach. | |
| 44. v. (nautical) To lay the ends of the strands of (a knot) over and under each other. | |
