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crown

A crown is a round-shaped ring that kings and queens wear on the head. It is made of expensive metals. It might have jewels too. The queen wore a fancy crown. The crown is the position of a sovereign (in a monarchy). The top part of the head. A prosthetic covering for a tooth.

crown

To put a crown on someone's head. To formally announce the new king or emperor. After the death of the old king, the new king was crowned. To declare the winner. During birth, when the baby's head is seen in the mother's vaginal opening. The mother was in the second stage of labor and the baby had just crowned, so the midwives encouraged her.

crown

invest with regal power; enthrone The prince was crowned in Westminster Abbey be the culminating event The speech crowned the meeting the part of a tooth above the gum that is covered with enamel the part of a hat (the vertex) that covers the crown of the head an ornamental jeweled headdress signifying sovereignty a wreath or garland worn on the head to signify victory the center of a cambered road (dentistry) dental appliance consisting of an artificial crown for a broken or decayed tooth tomorrow my dentist will fit me for a crown the upper branches and leaves of a tree or other plant an English coin worth 5 shillings put an enamel cover on crown my teeth form the topmost part of A weather vane crowns the building (= peak, top, tip, summit) the top or extreme point of something (usually a mountain or hill) the view from the peak was magnificent they clambered to the tip of Monadnock the region is a few molecules wide at the summit (= pennant) the award given to the champion (= pate) the top of the head

Crown

the Crown (or the reigning monarch) as the symbol of the power and authority of a monarchy the colonies revolted against the Crown

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Conjugation crown conjugation

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crown · verb

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Simple sentences

Does a cup of coffee cost one crown?
Mayuko wore a flower crown.
The king always wears a crown.
I've lost my crown.
This book is about a king who loses his crown.
No justice or freedom is possible when money always takes the crown.
The Queen's crown was made of gold.
This book is about a king who lost his crown.
They met the crown princes of Sweden and Denmark.
A cup of coffee costs one crown.
Do you see the crown?
I see a crown.
The crown of this hat is too high.
No cross, no crown.
The girl in the picture is wearing a crown not of gold but of flowers.
The crown was set with gems.
The crown prince is the one who is to succeed to the throne.
The girl in the picture has a flower wreath on her head, and not a golden crown.
There's a crown here.

Movie subtitles

The City was never in awe of the Crown, and the wealthier the City became, the more leverage it had.
Loans to the Crown became the key to urban autonomy.
The crown of the King of the Northland, the ruler of the Ice Giants is being wrought here by the Nibelungen.
Did he wear a crown?
Then we have 1, he'll get 1 crown.
It's 99 and he'll get 1 crown.
CARDPLAYER: You don't get out of here. -l'll crown you.
It wants no crown.
Shall I return and tell the Senate, which waits to offer you the world's crown. that they must wait until Calpurnia's dreams are pleasanter?
That will be half a crown.
Half a crown.
Would you crown this unknown girl Queen of England?
I said nothing about the Crown of England.
I gave him the cattle, and he gives you a crown.
No wonder they're the crown jewel of the U.N.
Crown the king!
Where is the crown, the crown of rosaries?
Crown him with roses!
You crown the one who kidnapped your daughters, who seduced and abused your children, perhaps killed!
You get to wear my crown.
There's a crown inside!
Your Majesty. I swore to the King, your father, to place this crown upon your head.
My Lord. will you take the crown from my head?
I swore to your father always to keep that crown upon your head.
I crown you.
If you wisecrack while I'm talking, I'll crown you.
His possessions are forfeit to the crown. Seize his castle and his lands. Everything he owns.
Crown that.
In a bad humor. -Somebody must have stolen the crown jewels.
To fight the enemies of the crown.
You mean, some dark night a crown block might fall on him?
Of course, it doesn't have to be a crown block. It can be a car backing over him, or he could fall out of the upstairs window.
Can't we go home? - No, we still have the crown jewels to see.
Some of the crown jewels of his.

News and current affairs

For although Crown Prince Abdullah has his own loyal entourage, including the National Guard, he confronts opposition from senior figures in the religious establishment.
Crown Prince Abdullah's initiative is meant to be made official during a speech at the Arab League summit in Beirut of 27-28 March.
The CAP quickly came to be seen as the jewel in the crown of the European project.
Not long after the September 2001 terrorist attacks in the United States, these liberal reformers joined with 160 other professionals to write and sign a petition to Crown Prince Abdullah asking for reforms.
Crown Prince Abdullah, Saudi Arabia's de facto ruler in place of his incapacitated half-brother King Fahd, is keen to be seen as a champion of reform.
Crown Prince Abdullah offered not a peep of opposition, leaving the reform agenda that he initiated in a political netherworld.
Crown Prince Abdullah is far more disposed to reform than Prince Naif, the powerful Interior Minister, who clings to the old narrow system of repression.
Some Russian officials want to unveil a monument Stalin to crown the festivities.
But public opinion was not prepared for that, and the heirs to the French crown were not up to the task.
After all, the British simply appointed governors when Hong Kong was still a crown colony, and nobody protested then.
Britain failed in America and the French crown failed in France because the governed ceased to recognize their authority.
Khrushchev's speech also ignited the feud between Mao's China and the USSR, for it allowed Mao to claim the crown of world revolutionary leadership.
The Crown Prince's abdication became inevitable.
According to Kuwait's constitution, the new ruler has one year to appoint a crown prince, but he has to appoint a prime minister immediately.
But, unless New York's populist new mayor, Bill de Blasio, tries to run the banks out of town, Western sheriff-style, these cities do not seem likely to steal Wall Street's crown anytime soon.
And, at the beginning of 2014, Foreign Minister Saud Al-Faisal and Crown Prince Salman visited Islamabad to renew the two countries' military agreements on joint arms production.
Indeed, following Fahd's death, Sudeiri power was reduced significantly, with only Crown Princes Sultan and Naif holding key roles.
The shift in power from the Sudeiris to King Abdullah and his sons was accelerated by the death of the two Sudeiri crown princes within a period of eight months.
Following the death of Naif (who was Minister of Interior for 37 years) in June 2012, he removed Abdul Rahman, a Sudeiri, and appointed Salman as Crown Prince.

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