crowned

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/kɹaʊnd/

adjective

Wearing a crown.

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Meanings

adjectivecrowned (not comparable)
  1. not comparableWearing a crown.

    Synonyms: coronate, coronated, incoronate, incoronated

  2. not comparableoftenHaving a particular crown (top part of the head)
  3. not comparableobsoleteGreat, supreme; completed; excessive.

    Their crowned truths

    1836, Emmeline Stuart-Wortley, Visionary: Canto III, v. cclxxxii.
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    Put case, he saith, all other medicines faile, by the helpe of God this alone will doe it, and tis a crowned medicine which must be kept in secret

    1624, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], “Preparatiues and purgers”, in The Anatomy of Melancholy: […], 2nd edition, Oxford, Oxfordshire: […] John Lichfield and James Short, for Henry Cripps, →OCLC, partition 2, section 4, member 1

    After having cloy'd his puny stomach, he sneaks away privily, in a Stage-Coach, to his house in the Country; there he murders the Vertuous Womb of his Dear Lady, and darts into the Royal Arch, his contagious, loathsome Sperm, which is innocently receiv'd, and hugg'd in the crown'd Act of Conception.

    1699, Robert Barret, A Companion for Midwives, Child-Bearing Women, and Nurses., London, Sect. III, p. 96

    More truly delightful to me the seduction-progress than the crowned act: for that's a vapour, a bubble!

    1748, [Samuel Richardson], “Letter XXVII. Mr. Lovelace, to John Belford, Esq. Saturday, May 20.”, in Clarissa. Or, The History of a Young Lady: […], volume IV, London: […] S[amuel] Richardson; [a]nd sold by John Osborn, […], →OCLC

    That the crownèd truth advances.

    1895, Ellen Maria Huntington Gates, The Treasures of Kurium
verb
  1. participlepastsimple past and past participle of crown

Synonyms & antonyms

adjectiveWearing a crown.

More synonyms by meaning

adjectivehaving an (artificial) crown on a tooth

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adjectivecrowned with or as if with laurel symbolizing victory

adjectiveprovided with or as if with a crown or a crown as specified; often used in combination

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Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.

Origin

  1. Middle Englishcoronede, crouned, crowned, crownyd
  2. Englishcrowned

From Middle English coronede, crouned, crowned, crownyd, equivalent to crown + -ed. Piecewise doublet of coronaed.

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Translations

Finnish kruunupäinen
  • kruunupäinenwearing a crown

Rhymes & wordplay

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Chicago

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