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A crown is a term (crown (anatomy)) referring to a part of the head or of a hat, or to a head ornament or type of headgear for the highest rank in a socio-political hierarchy. It is etymologically related to the cognate currency units Krone and Krona.

• Crown (headgear), ceremonial headgear

• Tiara, a type of crown

Symbols of monarchy or rank

• Ancient Egypt:

• Hedjet
• Deshret
• Pschent

• Ancient Rome:

• Civic Crown
• Grass Crown
• Naval crown

• Mural crown
• Consort crown
• Heraldic crown
• Imperial crown
• Coronation crown
• Commonwealth realms:

• The Crown, the legal embodiment of Executive Government in Commonwealth countries
• State crown (primarily British but may be applied to other monarchies)

• Crown of St. Stephen, Hungary's Holy Crown
• Papal Tiara or Triple Tiara, the papal crown

Sports

• Triple Crown, a series of three major events that establishes dominance in a particular sport; see for list in various sports

Currency

• British crown coin
• British half crown coin
• Czechoslovak koruna, former Czechoslovakia
• Czech koruna, Czech Republic
• Danish krone, Denmark
• Estonian kroon, Estonia
• Faroese króna, Faroe Islands
• Hungarian korona, Hungary
• Icelandic króna, Iceland
• Slovak koruna, Slovakia
• Swedish krona, Sweden

Places

• Crown, Inverness
• Crown Gardens, Gauteng, a suburb of Johannesburg, South Africa
• Crown Hill (various places)
• Crown North, Gauteng, a suburb of Johannesburg, South Africa
• Crown Point (various places)

Education

• Crown College, University of California, Santa Cruz, a residential college
• Crown College (Minnesota), a small private college in St. Bonifacius, Minnesota
• Crown College (Tennessee), an unaccredited school with approximately 900 students
• Crown College (Washington), a small, for-profit, predominantly online college located in Tacoma, Washington.

Arts

Literature, theater, movies

• A crown of sonnets is a group of related sonnets
• Crown (comics), an enemy of Spider-Man
• Diu Crône, an Arthurian romance

Music and audio

• The Crown (band), a Swedish death/thrash band

Science

• Crown (anatomy), the top of the head
• Crown (botany), the branching leaf-bearing portion of a tree
• Crown ether, a family of heterocyclic molecules
• Crown group, a group of living organisms
• Crown vetch, a plant

Dentistry

• Crown (dentistry), a dental treatment
• Crown (tooth), a portion of a tooth

Religion

• Sahasrara, the crown chakra in Hindu tradition
• Crown of Thorns, in Christianity, the headgear placed on Jesus before his execution
• Crown of Immortality, a literary and religious metaphor appearing in Baroque art.
• Tree of Life, The concept of a many-branched tree illustrating the idea that all life on earth is related.
• Keter, is the topmost of the Sephirot of the Tree of Life in Kabbalah
• Crown of the Andes, a religious crown once used in Holy Week ceremonies in Popayan.

Businesses

• Crown Castle, an American communications company
• Crown Equipment Corporation, a manufacturer of industrial lift trucks
• Crown Financial Ministries, a non-profit financial services entity
• Crown Holdings, a packaging products company
• Crown Hotel, Nantwich, a grade-I-listed 16th-century inn
• Crown International, amplifier and microphone manufacturer founded in 1947
• Crown International Pictures, a film production company
• Crown Limited, an Australian gaming and entertainment company established in 2007
• Crown Media, a media production company
• Crowne Plaza, a hotel chain
• Crown Paints, a British paint manufacturer
• Crown Publishing Group, a subsidiary of Random House
• Crown Records, a number of different record labels
• Crown Wallpaper, a British wallpaper manufacturer
• Crown Worldwide Group, a relocation company based in Hong Kong

Motor vehicles

• Crown (automobile), an automobile built in Detroit, MI, in 1905
• Crown Coach Corporation, an American school bus manufacturer
• Toyota Crown, a model of Toyota car

Other

• crowned, as in the winner of a beauty pageant
• Crown glass, the name for high quality glasses used in optics or glazing
• Crown Lager, a beer brewed in Melbourne since 1919
• Lester Crown (born 1926), American businessman
• HMS Crown, the name of five ships of the Royal Navy and one planned one
• Norwegian Crown, a cruise ship
• Norwegian krone, a currency

See also

• Corona and Corona (disambiguation)
• Hat, especially

• Parts of a hat
• Hat styles

• Headgear
• List of hats and headgear
• Horned helmet
• Heraldry: Helm and crest

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Etymology

From Latin corona (“‘wreath’”)

Pronunciation

• (RP) IPA: /kraʊn/, SAMPA: /kraUn/
• (US) enPR: kroun, IPA: /kroʊn/, SAMPA: /kroUn/
•  Audio (CA)^{help, file}

  Rhymes: -aʊn

Noun

crown (plural crowns)

1. A reward of victory or a mark of honor.
2. A royal, imperial or princely headdress; a diadem.
3. 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
4. A wreath or band for the head.
5. Imperial or regal power, or those who wield it.

   Treasure trove automatically becomes property of the Crown.

6. The topmost part of the head.
7. The highest part a hill.
8. The top part of a hat.
9. The raised centre of a road.
10. The highest part of an arch.
11. Splendor, finish, culmination.

    crown achievement

12. Any currency (originally) issued by the crown (regal power) and often bearing a crown (headdress)
13. Specifically, a former British coin worth five shillings.
14. (botany) The part of a plant where the root and stem meet.
15. (anatomy) The part of a tooth above the gums.
16. (dentistry) A prosthetic covering for a tooth.
17. (nautical) A knot formed in the end of a rope by tucking in the strands to prevent them from unravelling
18. (nautical) The part of an anchor where the arms and the shank meet
19. (paper) A standard size of printing paper measuring 20 inches x 15 inches.
20. (chemistry) A monocyclic ligand having three or more binding sites, capable of holding a guest in a central location

Synonyms

• (reward of victory or a mark of honor): award, garland, honor/honour, prize, wreath
• (royal, imperial or princely headdress): coronet
• (representation of such a headdress):
• (wreath or band for the head): garland, wreath
• (imperial or regal power): monarchy, royalty
• (of the head): apex, top
• (of a hill): apex, peak, summit, top
• (centre of a road):
• (highest part of an arch):
• (of a hat): top
• (splendor, finish, culmination): completion, culmination, finish, splendor/splendour
• (currency):
• (British coin):
• (part of plant):
• (anatomy: part of tooth): corona
• (dentistry: prosthetic covering for a tooth):

Antonyms

• (of a hill): bottom, foot

Derived terms

Translations

Adjective

crown (not comparable)

1. Of, related to, or pertaining to a crown.

   crown prince

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

   a crown fire

Translations

Verb

to crown (third-person singular simple present crowns, present participle crowning, simple past and past participle crowned)

1. To place a crown on the head of.
2. To formally declare (someone) a king or emperor.
3. To declare (someone) a winner.
4. (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.

5. To hit on the head
6. (video games) To shoot an opponent in the back of the head with a shotgun in a first-person shooter video game.
7. (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.

Translations

Derived terms

• crowned

See also

• coronation

From BibleWiki

1. Denotes the plate of gold in the front of the high priest's mitre (Ex 29:6; Ex 39:30). The same Hebrew word so rendered (ne'zer) denotes the diadem worn by Saul in battle (2 Sam 1:10), and also that which was used at the coronation of Joash (2Kg 11:12).
2. The more general name in Hebrew for a crown is 'atarah, meaning a "circlet." This is used of crowns and head ornaments of divers kinds, including royal crowns. Such was the crown taken from the king of Ammon by David (2 Sam 12:30). The crown worn by the Assyrian kings was a high mitre, sometimes adorned with flowers. There are sculptures also representing the crowns worn by the early Egyptian and Persian kings. Sometimes a diadem surrounded the royal head-dress of two or three fillets. This probably signified that the wearer had dominion over two or three countries. In Rev 12:3; Rev 13:1, we read of "many crowns," a token of extended dominion.
3. The ancient Persian crown (Est 1:11; Est 2:17; Est 6:8) was called kether; i.e., "a chaplet," a high cap or tiara. Crowns were worn sometimes to represent honour and power (Ezek 23:42). They were worn at marriages (Song 3:11; Isa 61:10, "ornaments;" R.V., "a garland"), and at feasts and public festivals.

The crown was among the Romans and Greeks a symbol of victory and reward. The crown or wreath worn by the victors in the Olympic games was made of leaves of the wild olive; in the Pythian games, of laurel; in the Nemean games, of parsley; and in the Isthmian games, of the pine. The Romans bestowed the "civic crown" on him who saved the life of a citizen. It was made of the leaves of the oak. In opposition to all these fading crowns the apostles speak of the incorruptible crown, the crown of life (Jam 1:12; Rev 2:10) "that fadeth not away" (1 Pet 5:4, Gr. amarantinos; comp. 1 Pet 1:4). Probably the word "amaranth" was applied to flowers we call "everlasting," the "immortal amaranth."

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