to crown
- verb
- /kraʊn/
- At the end of the ceremony, they will crown the new king with a beautiful golden tiara.
- crowning achievement
- crowning glory
- crowns the hill
It ceases to be that exercise and detachment and passion which crowns the splendor and futility of a person's life.
- It ceases to be that exercise and detachment and passion which crowns the splendor and futility of a person's life.
Examples
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Every midsummer we have this dance competition, and the winner gets crowned.
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I am going to crown the next prom queen.
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We're gonna crown us a new champion!
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This is the first round of the two-round Grand Prix to crown the greatest fighter in the world.
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And while she is offering the poem to me, I am crowning her with the bays.
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We're crowning the world's next superstar on the finale of Show Us What You Got.
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The judges will crown the winner of the talent contest after the final performance.
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After the last round, the competition will crown the top chef of the season.
Synonyms
To finish something by adding a final detail or touch
Put something on top of food to finish and make it look nicer
To form a cover on the top of something
Form the highest point of something like a roof or mountain
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
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Etymology
Crown meaning 'to be at the top' comes from the idea of a crown on a head, from corona, meaning a 'garland' worn on the head. That's why something that 'crowns' a building or hill is the highest or final part.