Definition of "crown"

A royal, imperial or princely headdress; a diadem.  quotations  examples

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

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

Imperial or regal power, or those who wield it.  examples

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

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

(old slang) The police (referring to Crown Victoria police cars).

The top part of something:

1. The topmost part of the head.  quotations  examples

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

     1610–1611 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tempest”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, [Act IV, scene i], page 16, column 1

   • In more than twenty things, which I ſet down; This done, I twenty more had in my Crown, And they again began to multiply, Like ſparks that from the coals of fire do fly.

     1678, John Bunyan, “The Author’s Apology for His Book”, in The Pilgrim’s Progress from This World, to That which is to Come: […], London: […] Nath[aniel] Ponder […]; reprinted in The Pilgrim’s Progress (The Noel Douglas Replicas), London: Noel Douglas, […], 1928,

2. The highest part of a hill.  quotations  examples

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

     1697, Virgil, “The Sixth Book of the Æneis”, in John Dryden, transl., The Works of Virgil: Containing His Pastorals, Georgics, and Æneis. […], London: […] Jacob Tonson, […], page 370, lines 267–268

   • We walk’d together on the crownOf a high mountain which look’d downAfar from its proud natural towersOf rock and forest, on the hills—The dwindled hills! begirt with bowersAnd shouting with a thousand rills.

     1829, Edgar Allan Poe, “Tamerlane”, in Al Aaraaf, Tamerlane and Minor Poems

   • So we continue climbing to the saddle of the Kleine Scheidegg, where ahead there comes into view the wide expanse of the Grindelwald valley, backed by the snowy crown of the Wetterhorn.

     1960 December, Voyageur, “The Mountain Railways of the Bernese Oberland”, in Trains Illustrated, page 752

3. The top section of a hat, above the brim.  examples

4. The raised centre of a road.  quotations  examples

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   • 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.

     1953, Samuel Beckett, Watt, Olympia Press

5. The highest part of an arch.  quotations  examples

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

     1941 February, “Bridge demolition by lifting”, in Railway Magazine, page 74

6. The upper range of facets in a rose diamond.  examples

7. The dome of a furnace.  examples

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

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

Splendor; culmination; acme.  quotations  examples

(translation) various currencies known by similar names in their native languages, such as the koruna, kruna, krone, korona.  examples

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

(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.  quotations

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

(forestry) The top of a tree.  examples

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

(dentistry) A prosthetic covering for a tooth.  examples

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

(firearms) A rounding or smoothing of the barrel opening.  examples

(geometry) The area enclosed between two concentric perimeters.  examples

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

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

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

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

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

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

To place a crown on the head of.  quotations  examples

To formally declare (someone) a king, queen, emperor, etc.  quotations  examples

To bestow something upon as a mark of honour, dignity, or recompense; to adorn; to dignify.  quotations  examples

To form the topmost or finishing part of; to complete; to consummate; to perfect.  quotations  examples

To declare (someone) a winner.  quotations  examples

(medicine) Of a baby, during the birthing process; for the surface of the baby's head to appear in the vaginal opening.  quotations  examples

(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.  examples

To hit on the head.  quotations  examples

(video games) To shoot an opponent in the back of the head with a shotgun in a first-person shooter video game.  examples

(board games) In checkers, to stack two checkers to indicate that the piece has become a king.  examples

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.  examples

(firearms) To widen the opening of the barrel.  examples

(military) To effect a lodgment upon, as upon the crest of the glacis, or the summit of the breach.

(nautical) To lay the ends of the strands of (a knot) over and under each other.  examples

(intransitive, slang) To be on the point of defecating.  quotations

(archaic) past participle of crow  quotations