to crown
- verb
- /kraʊn/
- Formal
- At the ceremony, they will crown the new queen with a beautiful golden tiara.
- be crowned king
- crown a new emperor
- crown the head
But when I'm in this chair, I have to crown a winner, and I do have a winner.
- But when I'm in this chair, I have to crown a winner, and I do have a winner.
- Nevertheless, we have to think about the implications of the Pope crowning the emperor.
- When Charlemagne was crowned by the Pope, he certainly indicated a conception of rulership sanctified by the Church.
- So the UN crowned king is this whole story.
Examples
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The Teen Choice Awards crowned him Choice Comedian in 2008.
Academic text (2009) -
We have one more contestant, and then we'll be crowning our winner.
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And this year, we're going to crown the Queen of the cream.
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The day after tomorrow, we will crown the May Queen.
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With that, it's time to crown our champion.
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Bring me the others, and I'll crown you king.
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And now he stands to be crowned king.
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The winner is then crowned by the governor of Kentucky.
Academic text (2005) -
They were just about to crown king and queen!
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Helen: I crown thee, Bruno, Queen of the Bees.
Synonyms
To put a crown on someone's head to make them king or queen
To give someone a high position of power in a formal ceremony, like making them a king or queen
To put a headband with jewels on someone to show they are a ruler
To make someone a ruler by a ceremony
Idioms
Compounds
- US
A title given to a horse that wins the Kentucky Derby, Preakness Stakes and Belmont Stakes in the same year
- Jargon
In baseball, a player who leads the league in batting average, runs batted in, and home runs in one season
- NSFW
A ring of thorn branches put on Jesus' head to mock and hurt him before his death on the cross
- Archaic
A place ruled directly by the British king or queen, usually through a governor they choose
- Specialized
A fast forest fire that moves through the tops of trees, often moving ahead of the fire on the ground
- Specialized
A type of glass lens makers use that bends light little and keeps colours from separating
- Archaic
Old window glass you get by blowing hot glass into a round disk and spinning it flat
A tall plant with a ring of leaves at the top of its stem and bright bell-shaped orange flowers
- Specialized
A plant with large reddish-purple trumpet-shaped flowers and poisonous seeds that grows in fields and roadsides
- Specialized
A lens made from a kind of clear glass that gives sharp images with little color blur
- Specialized
A plant with pink and white flowers that spreads to cover soil and prevent erosion
- Specialized
A fungal disease of alfalfa that causes white growths at the base of the stem
An annual plant with yellow flowers that grows in dry parts of the southwestern United States and Mexico
- Archaic
A hard cap placed over a broken or decayed tooth to make it look and work like a real tooth
- Specialized
Clear glass used in camera lenses that bends light less and keeps colours from separating
- Jargon
A baseball season when a player leads the league in batting average, home runs and runs batted in
How Ceremonial
- Formal
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Surface Forms
Etymology
Crown as a verb comes from the noun crown, from corona 'garland', and it originally meant to put a head ornament on someone. So to crown a ruler is to make them king or queen by placing the crown on their head.