crown
verb/kraʊn/
/kraʊn/
Verb Forms
Idioms | present simple I / you / we / they crown | /kraʊn/ /kraʊn/ |
| he / she / it crowns | /kraʊnz/ /kraʊnz/ |
| past simple crowned | /kraʊnd/ /kraʊnd/ |
| past participle crowned | /kraʊnd/ /kraʊnd/ |
| -ing form crowning | /ˈkraʊnɪŋ/ /ˈkraʊnɪŋ/ |
- [often passive] to put a crown on the head of a new king or queen as a sign of royal power in a ceremony at which they officially become king or queen
- be crowned Queen Elizabeth was crowned in 1953.
- be crowned + noun The prince was soon to be crowned King of England.
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- [usually passive] to form or cover the top of something
- be crowned with something His head was crowned with a mop of brown curls.
- [often passive] to make something complete or perfect, especially by adding an achievement, a success, etc.
- crown something The award of the Nobel Prize has crowned a glorious career in physics.
- be crowned with something Their efforts were finally crowned with success.
- crown somebody (old-fashioned, informal) to hit somebody on the head
- [often passive] to put an artificial cover on a tooth synonym cap
- have something/be crowned I've had one of my teeth crowned.
king/queen
cover top
make complete
hit on head
tooth
Word OriginMiddle English: from Anglo-Norman French corune (noun), coruner (verb), Old French corone (noun), coroner (verb), from Latin corona ‘wreath, chaplet’.
Idioms
See crown in the Oxford Advanced American DictionarySee crown in the Oxford Learner's Dictionary of Academic Englishto crown it all
- (British English, informal) used to say that something is the final and worst event in a series of unpleasant or annoying events
- It was cold and raining, and, to crown it all, we had to walk home.
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