English Dictionary

crown

/kɹaʊn/

noun

A royal, imperial or princely headdress; a diadem. / A wreath or band for the head, especially one given as reward of victory or a mark of honor. / (by extension) Any reward of victory or mark of honor.

The queen wore a beautiful crown on her head.

意味（1）

A royal, imperial or princely headdress; a diadem.

意味（2）

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

意味（3）

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

the martyr’s crown

意味（4）

Imperial or regal power, or those who wield it.

意味（5）

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

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

意味（6）

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

Treasure recovered from shipwrecks automatically becomes property of the Crown.

意味（7）

The topmost part of the head.

…if he awake,

From toe to crowne hee'l fill our skin with pinches,

…if he awake, From toe to crowne hee'l fill our skin with pinches, Make vs ſtrange ſtuffe.

意味（8）

The highest part of a hill.

Huge Trunks of Trees, fell'd from the ſteepy Crown

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

意味（9）

The top section of a hat, above the brim.

意味（10）

The raised centre of a road.

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.

意味（11）

The highest part of an arch.

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

意味（12）

The upper range of facets in a rose diamond.

意味（13）

The dome of a furnace.

意味（14）

The upper part of certain fruits, as the pineapple or strawberry, that is removed before eating.

意味（15）

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

意味（16）

Splendor; culmination; acme.

… happie in our mutual help

And mutual love, the Crown of all our bliſs

… happie in our mutual help And mutual love, the Crown of all our bliſs Ordain'd by thee, …

意味（17）

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.

意味（18）

(historical) A former pre-decimalization British coin worth five shillings.

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.

意味（19）

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

意味（20）

(forestry) The top of a tree.

意味（21）

(anatomy, dentistry) The part of a tooth above the gums.

意味（22）

(dentistry) A prosthetic covering for a tooth.

意味（23）

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

意味（24）

(nautical) The part of an anchor where the arms and the shank meet

意味（25）

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

意味（26）

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

意味（27）

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

意味（28）

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

意味（29）

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

意味（30）

(firearms) A rounding or smoothing of the barrel opening

意味（31）

(geometry) The area enclosed between two concentric perimeters.

意味（32）

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

意味（33）

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

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.

意味（34）

(African-American Vernacular, colloquial) A formal hat worn by women to Sunday church services; a church crown.

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].

意味（35）

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