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Noun
  1. A royal, imperial or princely headdress; a diadem.
  2. (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 awarded to moral persons that don't even have a head, as the mural crown for cities in heraldry
  3. A wreath or band for the head, especially one given as reward of victory or a mark of honor.
  4. (by extension) Any reward of victory or a mark of honor.
  5. Imperial or regal power, or those who wield it.
  6. (metonymy) The sovereign (in a monarchy), as head of state.
  7. (by extension, especially in law) The state, the government (headed by a monarch).
  8. The topmost part of the head.
  9. The highest part of a hill.
  10. The top section of a hat, above the brim.
  11. The raised centre of a road.
  12. The highest part of an arch.
  13. Splendor; culmination; acme.
  14. 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
  15. (historical) A former pre-decimalization British coin worth five shillings.
  16. (botany) The part of a plant where the root and stem meet.
  17. (forestry) The top of a tree.
  18. (anatomy) The part of a tooth above the gums.
  19. (dentistry) A prosthetic covering for a tooth.
  20. (nautical) A knot formed in the end of a rope by tucking in the strands to prevent them from unravelling
  21. (nautical) The part of an anchor where the arms and the shank meet
  22. (nautical) The rounding, or rounded part, of the deck from a level line.
  23. (plural) The bights formed by the turns of a cable.
  24. (paper) A standard size of printing paper measuring 20 inches x 15 inches.
  25. (chemistry) A monocyclic ligand having three or more binding sites, capable of holding a guest in a central location
  26. (firearms) A rounding or smoothing of the barrel opening
  27. The upper range of facets in a rose diamond.
  28. The dome of a furnace.
  29. (geometry) The area enclosed between two concentric perimeters.
  30. (religion) A round spot shaved clean on the top of the head, as a mark of the clerical state; the tonsure.
  31. A whole turkey with the legs and wings removed to produce a joint of white meat.
  32. (African-American colloquialism) A formal hat worn by women to Sunday church services; elliptical for church crown.
Adjective
  1. Of, related to, or pertaining to a crown.
  2. Of, related to, pertaining to the top of a tree or trees.
Verb
  1. To place a crown on the head of.
  2. To formally declare (someone) a king, queen, emperor, etc.
  3. To bestow something upon as a mark of honour, dignity, or recompense; to adorn; to dignify.
  4. To form the topmost or finishing part of; to complete; to consummate; to perfect.
  5. To declare (someone) a winner.
  6. (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.
  7. To hit on the head.
  8. (video game) To shoot an opponent in the back of the head with a shotgun in a first-person shooter video game.
  9. (board games) In checkers, to stack two checkers to indicate that the piece has become a king.
  10. (firearms) To widen the opening of the barrel.
  11. (military) To effect a lodgment upon, as upon the crest of the glacis, or the summit of the breach.
  12. (nautical) To lay the ends of the strands of (a knot) over and under each other.
Verb
  1. (obsolete) past participle of crow
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