coronate

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UK/ˈkɒɹəˌneɪt/US/ˈkɔɹəˌneɪt/UK/ˈkɒɹənət/US/ˈkɔɹənɪt/

verb

To crown (a sovereign or champion).

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Meanings

coronate1

verbcoronate (third-person singular simple present coronates, present participle coronating, simple past and past participle coronated)

present singular third person coronates · participle present coronating · participle past coronated · past coronated

  1. rareTo crown (a sovereign or champion).

    2023, USA Today On a soggy London day in June 1953, a bright-eyed 27-year-old married mother named Elizabeth was coronated as queen of England.

    3 more examples

    […] and instead of Coronating your deserved Worth […]

    1657, Tomlinson, translating Jean de Renou's A Medicinal Dispensatory, page 475

    The whole field of literature has freely surrendered its classic gems to coronate him the intellectual king.

    1891, Virgil Chittenden Hart, The Temple and the Sage, page 65

    Tribals defy custom, bow to queen - Great Andamanese gear up to coronate first woman

    2005, Telegraph India

coronate2

adjectivecoronate (not comparable)

alternative coronated

  1. not comparablebiologyHaving a crest or a crownlike appendage, a corona.
  2. not comparablebiologyHaving the coronal feathers lengthened or otherwise distinguished.
  3. not comparablebiologyGirt about the spire with a row of tubercles or spines.

coronate3

adjectivecoronate (not comparable)
  1. not comparableobsolete(as a participial adjective) Having or wearing a crown, crowned; (as a participle) crowned, coronated.

    The duke of Normandy / William conquerour […] Was coronate at London / […]

    1513, Henry Bradshaw, The Holy Lyfe and History of Saynt Werburge, page 181
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    Maryus his ſoonne was then intronizate / And ſette on high in trone of maieſtie / With croune of golde full royally coronate / As worthy was vnto his royalte / Who nouriſhed was at Rome in his inuente / With his mothers kynne the beest of the empire / With Claudius also, that was his oune graũdsir[…]Seuerus thus the worthy senatour / Descẽded downe, right heire to Androge{us} / The eldeſt ſoonne of Lud that with the Emperoure / Out of Britayn that went with Iulius / Whiche Senatoure afore ſayd Seuerus / To Britayn came and was intromizate / And with a crowne of golde was coronate.

    1464 (originally written); 1543 (rewritten), John Hardyng, The Chronicle of Ihon Hardyng in Metre, frõ the First Begynnyng of Englãde, vnto yᵗ Reigne of Edwarde yᵉ Fourth Where He Made an End of His Chronicle. And from yᵗ Tyme Is Added with a Cõtinuacion of the Storie in Prose to This Our Tyme, Now First Emprinted, Gathered out of Diuerse and Sondrie Autours of Moste Certain Knowelage & Substanciall Credit, yᵗ Either in Latin or Els in Our Mother Toungue Haue Writen of yᵉ Affaires of Englande., London: In officina Richardi Graftoni

Synonyms & antonyms

verbinvest with regal power; enthrone

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Origin

coronate · verb

  1. Latincorōnātus“crowned”
  2. Englishcoronate

First attested in 1623; borrowed from Latin corōnātus (“crowned”), perfect passive participle of corōnō (“to crown”) (see -ate (verb-forming suffix)), from corōna (“crown”) + -ō.

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coronate · adjective

  1. New Latincoronātus
  2. Englishcoronate

Borrowed from New Latin coronātus, see -ate (adjective-forming suffix).

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coronate · adjective

  1. Latincorōnātus“wearing a crown, crowned”
  2. Middle Englishcoronat(e)
  3. Englishcoronate

From Middle English coronat(e), borrowed from Latin corōnātus (“wearing a crown, crowned”), see -ate (adjective-forming suffix).

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APA

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MLA

“coronate.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/coronate. Accessed November 2, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “coronate,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/coronate.

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