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▸ noun: A wreath or band for the head, especially one given as reward of victory or a mark of honor.
▸ noun: (by extension) Any reward of victory or mark of honor.
▸ noun: Imperial or regal power, or those who wield it.
▸ noun: (metonymically) The sovereign (in a monarchy), as head of state.
▸ noun: (by extension, especially in law) The state, the government (headed by a monarch).
▸ noun: (old slang) The police (referring to Crown Victoria police cars).
▸ noun: The top part of something:
▸ noun: The topmost part of the head.
▸ noun: The highest part of a hill.
▸ noun: The top section of a hat, above the brim.
▸ noun: The raised centre of a road.
▸ noun: The highest part of an arch.
▸ noun: The upper range of facets in a rose diamond.
▸ noun: The dome of a furnace.
▸ noun: The upper part of certain fruits, as the pineapple or strawberry, that is removed before eating.
▸ noun: (architecture) A kind of spire or lantern formed by converging flying buttresses.
▸ noun: Splendor; culmination; acme.
▸ noun: 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 korona, koruna, krona, króna, krone.
▸ noun: (historical) A former predecimalization British coin worth five shillings.
▸ noun: (historical, by extension) A coin or note worth five shillings in various countries that are or were in the British Commonwealth, such as Ireland or Jamaica.
▸ noun: (botany) The part of a plant where the root and stem meet.
▸ noun: (forestry) The top of a tree.
▸ noun: (anatomy, dentistry) The part of a tooth above the gums.
▸ noun: (dentistry) A prosthetic covering for a tooth.
▸ noun: (nautical) A knot formed in the end of a rope by tucking in the strands to prevent them from unravelling.
▸ noun: (nautical) The part of an anchor where the arms and the shank meet.
▸ noun: (nautical) The rounding, or rounded part, of the deck from a level line.
▸ noun: (paper) In England, a standard size of printing paper measuring 20 × 15 inches.
▸ noun: (paper) In American, a standard size of writing paper measuring 19 × 15 inches.
▸ noun: (chemistry) A monocyclic ligand having three or more binding sites, capable of holding a guest in a central location.
▸ noun: (medicine) During childbirth, the appearance of the baby's head from the mother's vagina.
▸ noun: (firearms) A rounding or smoothing of the barrel opening.
▸ noun: (geometry) The area enclosed between two concentric perimeters.
▸ noun: (religion) A round spot shaved clean on the top of the head, as a mark of the clerical state; the tonsure.
▸ noun: A whole bird with the legs and wings removed to produce a joint of white meat.
▸ noun: (African-American Vernacular, colloquial) A formal hat worn by women to Sunday church services; a church crown.
▸ noun: (horology) The knurled knob or dial, on the outside of a watch case, used to wind it or adjust the hands.
▸ adjective: Of, related to, or pertaining to a crown.
▸ adjective: Of, related to, pertaining to the top of a tree or trees.
▸ verb: To place a crown on the head of.
▸ verb: To formally declare (someone) a king, queen, emperor, etc.
▸ verb: To bestow something upon as a mark of honour, dignity, or recompense; to adorn; to dignify.
▸ verb: To form the topmost or finishing part of; to complete; to consummate; to perfect.
▸ verb: To declare (someone) a winner.
▸ verb: (medicine) Of a baby, during the birthing process; for the surface of the baby's head to appear in the vaginal opening.
▸ verb: (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.
▸ verb: To hit on the head.
▸ verb: (video games) To shoot an opponent in the back of the head with a shotgun in a first-person shooter video game.
▸ verb: (board games) In checkers, to stack two checkers to indicate that the piece has become a king.
▸ verb: Of a forest fire or bushfire, to spread to the crowns of the trees and thence move from tree to tree independent of the surface fire.
▸ verb: (firearms) To widen the opening of the barrel.
▸ verb: (military) To effect a lodgment upon, as upon the crest of the glacis, or the summit of the breach.
▸ verb: (nautical) To lay the ends of the strands of (a knot) over and under each other.
▸ verb: (intransitive, slang) To be on the point of defecating.
▸ noun: (government) The sovereign of a monarchy; often with reference to that of the Commonwealth realms.
▸ noun: (government) The government of a monarchy; often with reference to one that is a member of the Commonwealth realms.
▸ noun: (Canada, law) A Crown attorney.
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