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Definition: Crowned |
CrownedAdjective1. (dentistry) having an artificial crown on a tooth; "had many crowned teeth". 2. Crowned with or as if with laurel symbolizing victory. 3. Provided with or as if with a crown or a crown as specified; often used in combination; "a high-crowned hat"; "an orange-crowned bird"; "a crowned signet ring". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "crowned" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1050. (references) |
Synonyms: CrownedSynonyms: laureled (adj), laurelled (adj). (additional references) |
| Antonyms: uncrowned (adj), unlaureled (adj). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Master | Crowned head, emperor, king, anointed king, majesty, imperator, protector, president, stadholder, judge. |
Success | Adjective: succeeding; Verb: successful; prosperous; triumphant; flushed with success, crowned with success; victorious, on top; set up; in the ascendant; unbeaten; (see beat; Verb:); well-spent; felicitous, effective, in full swing. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Crowned |
| English words defined with "crowned": Australian grass tree ♦ Bosworth Field, Browbound ♦ comate, comose, coronate, crown ♦ Edward V, encircled ♦ Frederick II ♦ Glad on 't, Goura, grass tree, Ground pigeon ♦ Heathclad ♦ Incoronate ♦ Jeanne d'Arc, Joan of Arc ♦ laureate, laureled, laurelled, Leo III, Luigi Barnaba Gregorio Chiaramonti ♦ May queen ♦ palm, palm tree, Pine-crowned, Pius VII ♦ Queen pigeon ♦ ringed, Rood tower, royal ♦ Saint Joan ♦ The Conqueror, top ♦ unlaureled, unlaurelled ♦ Wall knot, wreathed ♦ Yuen. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "crowned": ARTHUR ♦ Barley-field, Barzillai, BISMARCK ♦ Crusades ♦ Dances, Drowned in a Butt of Malmsey ♦ Hock Cart ♦ Improvisatrix ♦ King, Kings ♦ LAUREATE, looking ♦ Marian'a ♦ Oberthal ♦ Redgauntlet, RUSSIA ♦ Shah-pour, Sibyls, Symbols of Saints ♦ Wheat, William. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | And if I spelled my name D-a-r-y-a I'd be crowned Miss America. (Daria; writing credit: Glenn Eichler; Peggy Nicoll) Oh please, Professor, why can't we go with you and see all the Crowned Heads of Europe? (The Wizard of Oz; writing credit: L. Frank Baum; Noel Langley) | |
Lyrics | A golden halo crowned him (Mary's Boy Child/Oh My Lord; performing artist: Boney M) I was crowned with a spike right thru my head. (JUMPING JACK FLASH; performing artist: The Rolling Stones) | |
Movie/TV Titles | A Queen Is Crowned (1953) The Crowned Prince (1926) | |
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![]() | Symbolic picture in alchemical text showing crowned man standing on sun and crowned woman standing on moon joining flowers with descending dove, which represents marriage and the union of two substances. Credit: Library of Congress. | ![]() | Dome and turret crowned cathedral roof and three of the "volcanic marvels," Leon, Nicaragua, C. A. Credit: Library of Congress. |
![]() | Crowned Greek astronomer Ptolemy and his Renaissance translator Regiomontanus, seated beneath an armillary sphere and surrounded by decorated border. Credit: Library of Congress. | ![]() | The Empress is crowned in traditional ancestral robes--she is the first to share throne equally with Emperor. Credit: Library of Congress. |
![]() | Head of Christ crowned with thorns. Credit: Library of Congress. | ||
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| Author | Quotation |
Oliver Goldsmith | The hours that we pass with happy prospects in view are more pleasing than those crowned with success. |
St. Jerome | No athlete is crowned but in the sweat of his brow. |
Thomas Traherne | You never enjoy the world aright, till the sea itself floweth in your veins, till you are clothed with the heavens and crowned with the stars. |
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John Locke | 1690 | Honour the king, and he that resists the power, resists the ordinance of God; are divine oracles that will never permit it, The people therefore can never come by a power over him, unless he does something that makes him cease to be a king: for then he divests himself of his crown and dignity, and returns to the state of a private man, and the people become free and superior, the power which they had in the interregnum, before they crowned him king, devolving to them again. (Second Treatise of Government) |
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Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | It cleared up the question, promulgated truth, drove away miasma, purified the century, crowned the people. |
Gulliver's Travels | Swift, Jonathan | I have too great a veneration for crowned heads to dwell any longer on so nice a subject. |
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Business | Published in July 1999 as ISO/TS 16949, these guidelines crowned a joint endeavor that had lasted over three years. (references) | |
Economic History | Romania | A German prince, Carol of Hohenzollern, was crowned first King of Romania in 1881. (references) |
Ethiopia | In 1930, after the empress died, the regent, adopting the throne name Haile Selassie, was crowned emperor. (references) | |
Thailand | The first Chakri king was crowned Rama I. Rama's heirs became increasingly concerned with the threat of European colonialism after British victories in neighboring Burma in 1826. (references) | |
Lexicography | Devil's Dictionary | LOOKING-:GLASS:, n. A vitreous plane upon which to display a fleeting show for man's disillusion given. The King of Manchuria had a magic looking-glass, whereon whoso looked saw, not his own image, but only that of the king. A certain courtier who had long enjoyed the king's favor and was thereby enriched beyond any other subject of the realm, said to the king: "Give me, I pray, thy wonderful mirror, so that when absent out of thine august presence I may yet do homage before thy visible shadow, prostrating myself night and morning in the glory of thy benign countenance, as which nothing has so divine splendor, O Noonday Sun of the Universe!" Please with the speech, the king commanded that the mirror be conveyed to the courtier's palace; but after, having gone thither without apprisal, he found it in an apartment where was naught but idle lumber. And the mirror was dimmed with dust and overlaced with cobwebs. This so angered him that he fisted it hard, shattering the glass, and was sorely hurt. Enraged all the more by this mischance, he commanded that the ungrateful courtier be thrown into prison, and that the glass be repaired and taken back to his own palace; and this was done. But when the king looked again on the mirror he saw not his image as before, but only the figure of a crowned ass, having a bloody bandage on one of its hinder hooves -- as the artificers and all who had looked upon it had before discerned but feared to report. Taught wisdom and charity, the king restored his courtier to liberty, had the mirror set into the back of the throne and reigned many years with justice and humility; and one day when he fell asleep in death while on the throne, the whole court saw in the mirror the luminous figure of an angel, which remains to this day. |
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John Quincy Adams | 1825-1829 | The active, persevering, and unremitted energy of Captain Warrington and of the officers and men under his command on that trying and perilous service have been crowned with signal success, and are entitled to the approbation of their country. |
Andrew Jackson | 1829-1837 | Every branch of labor we see crowned with the most abundant rewards. |
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| "Crowned" is generally used as a lexical verb (past participle) -- approximately 59.05% of the time. "Crowned" is used about 359 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Lexical Verb (past participle) | 59.05% | 212 | 20,813 |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 19.5% | 70 | 39,981 |
| Lexical Verb (past tense) | 17.83% | 64 | 42,009 |
| Noun (proper) | 3.62% | 13 | 97,576 |
| Total | 100.00% | 359 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following table summarizes names derived from the word "crowned". | |||
| Name | Gender | Language | Meaning |
| Nazareth | N/A | Biblical | Crowned |
| Stephanas | N/A | Biblical | Crowned |
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Expressions using "crowned": crowned head ♦ crowned pigeon ♦ crowned tooth. Additional references. | |
| Hypenated Usage | |
Ending with "crowned": black-crowned, high-crowned, newly-crowned. | |
Containing "crowned": black-crowned night heron, black-crowned thrush, gold-crowned kinglet, golden-crowned thrush, ruby-crowned kinglet, ruby-crowned wren, white-crowned sparrow, yellow-crowned night heron, yellow-crowned warbler. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Language | Translations for "crowned"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | me kurorë, i përsosur (consummate, fine, flawless, indefectible, nonpareil, slap up). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | مكلل, متوج (crowning), مجلل. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | зъб облечен с коронка (crowned tooth). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | (Crowning). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | korunovaný (utter). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | trappeskive (crowned pulley), krontrane (southern crowned crane), Krondue (blue-crowned pigeon, crowned pigeon, goura), fladskær (flat crowned sweep, high speed sweep, mixed-land sweep, tractor sweep), Dronning Victorias krondue (Victoria crowned pigeon). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | zuidafrikaanse kroonkraanvogels (southern crowned crane), waaierduif (Victoria crowned pigeon), Victoria-kroonduif (Victoria crowned pigeon), trapschijf (crowned pulley), torenschijf (crowned pulley), Kroonduif (blue-crowned pigeon, crowned pigeon, goura), brede vlakke ganzevoet (flat crowned sweep, high speed sweep, mixed-land sweep, tractor sweep). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | hänet kruunattiin kuninkaaksi (he was crowned king). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | couronné (crowning). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | krönte. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | crithagra flavivertex (crithagra flavivertex, yellow-crowned canary), stephanoaetus coronatus (crowned hawk eagle, stephanoaetus coronatus), stephanibyx coronatus (crowned plover, stephanibyx coronatus, Vanellus coronatus), κιτρινοστεφανοκανάρινο (crithagra flavivertex, yellow-crowned canary), στεματοφόρος γερανός (southern crowned crane), στεφανογερανός (balearica regulorum, crowned crane), στεφανοχαραδριός (crowned plover, stephanibyx coronatus, Vanellus coronatus), στεφανοαετός (crowned hawk eagle, stephanoaetus coronatus), υνί επίπεδο με δύο φτερά (flat crowned sweep, high speed sweep, mixed-land sweep, tractor sweep), υνί επίπεδο τύπου "καρδιάς", τροχαλία αλλαγής ταχυτήτων (crowned pulley), δαφνοστεφής (crowned with laurels), Goura (crowned pigeon, goura), balearica regulorum (balearica regulorum, crowned crane). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hebrew | מעטיר (crowning, decorated), עטור (adorned, coronation, crowning, embellished, embellishment, garnished, illustration, medal, ornament, ornamented). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | megkoronázott, koronás. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | crithagra flavivertex (crithagra flavivertex, yellow-crowned canary), canarino del Capo (crithagra flavivertex, yellow-crowned canary), vomeretto appiattito (flat crowned sweep, high speed sweep, mixed-land sweep, tractor sweep), Vanellus coronatus (crowned plover, stephanibyx coronatus, Vanellus coronatus), stephanoaetus coronatus (crowned hawk eagle, stephanoaetus coronatus), stephanibyx coronatus (crowned plover, stephanibyx coronatus, Vanellus coronatus), spizaeto coronato (crowned hawk eagle, stephanoaetus coronatus), puleggia a gradini (crowned pulley), pterocle coronata (crowned-sandgrouse), pavoncella coronata (crowned plover, stephanibyx coronatus, Vanellus coronatus), gura vittoria (Victoria crowned pigeon), gru coronata (balearica regulorum, crowned crane), Goura (crowned pigeon, goura), balearica regulorum (balearica regulorum, crowned crane). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | く (to be crowned, to receive, to take food or drink hum), く (to accept, to be crowned with, to buy, to install, to live under, to receive, to take, to take food or drink, to wear), 戴く (to accept, to be crowned with, to buy, to install, to live under, to receive, to take, to take food or drink, to wear), 戴 (be crowned with, receive), 鳩 (crowned pigeon), 鶴 (crowned crane). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | たい (against, another intention, band, be crowned with, body, company, complying with, corps, double-mindedness, fickleness, form, ill will, image counter, keeping in mind, malice, obedience, object, opposition, party, ratio, reality, receive, schnapper, sea bream, secret purpose, snapper, style, substance, the body, ulterior motive, versus), か"むりばと (crowned pigeon), か"むりづる (crowned crane), いた く (to accept, to be crowned with, to buy, to install, to live under, to receive, to take, to take food or drink, to wear). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Korean | 관을 "우". (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | crooinit (crowned of king). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | ownedcray perfeito (absolute, accomplished, bijou, classic, classical, clean, close, consummate, exact, finished, flawless, handsome, impeccable, masterly, perfect, precious, sculpturesque, sound, thorough, thoroughpaced, throughly, unalloyed, undeniable, unexceptionable, unmitigated), acabado (accomplished, done, out, thoroughgoing, thoroughpaced). (various references) încoronat. (various references) увенчанный, коронованный, законченный (accomplished, complete, consummate, finished, perfect, thorough-paced). (various references) krunisan. (various references) coronado (bridged), verdadero (actual, effective, factual, incorrupt, legitimate, perfect, positive, proper, real, regular, right, rightful, sheer, sterling, true, trueborn, unerring, upstanding, veritable). (various references) krönd. (various references) taç giymiş. (various references) увінчаний, коронований, завершений (accomplished, orbicular, rounded). (various references) coronog. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | Balearica regulorum, diademata, diademate, Euplectes afer, Euplectes afra, Goura coronata, Goura cristata, Goura victoria, Taha afra, Zonotrichia albicollis, Zonotrichia leucophrys. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| Language | Date | Source | Proverbs Chapter 14, Verse 18 |
| Greek (transliterated) | 250 BC | Septuagint | Meriountai afroneV kakian oi de panourgoi krathsousin aisqhsewV |
| Latin | 405 | Vulgate | Possidebunt parvuli stultitiam et astuti expectabunt scientiam |
| Middle English | 1395 | Wyclif | Litle childer shul welde folie; and witti men shul abide kunnyng. |
| Jacobean English | 1611 | King James | The simple inherit folly: but the prudent are crowned with knowledge. |
| Victorian English | 1833 | Webster | The simple inherit folly: but the prudent are crowned with knowledge. |
| Basic English | 1964 | Ogden | Foolish behaviour is the heritage of the simple, but men of good sense are crowned with knowledge. |
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| Language | Proverbs Chapter 14, Verse 18 |
| Cebuano | ¶ Ang walay-pagtagad makapanunod sa binuang; Apan ang mga buotan pagapurongpurongan sa kahibalo. |
| Chinese | 愚 ' 人 得 愚 昧 為 " 業 . 通 " 人 得 知 識 為 冕 。 |
| Croatian | Glupaci baštine ludost, a mudre ovjenèava znanje. |
| Danish | De tankeløse giver dårskab i Arv, de kloge efterlader sig Kundskab. |
| Dutch | De slechten erven dwaasheid; maar de kloekzinnigen zullen zich met wetenschap kronen. |
| Finnish | Yksinkertaiset saavat perinnökseen hulluuden, mutta mielevät tiedon kruunuksensa. |
| French | Les simples ont en partage la folie, Et les hommes prudents se font de la science une couronne. |
| German | Die Unverständigen erben Narrheit; aber es ist der Klugen Krone, vorsichtig handeln. |
| Haitian Creole | ¶ Moun san konprann aji tankou moun fou. Men, rekonpans moun ki gen lespri se konesans. |
| Hungarian | Bírják az esztelenek a bolondságot örökség szerint; az eszesek pedig fonják a tudománynak koszorúját. |
| Indonesian-Bahasa Sehari-hari | Orang yang tak berpengalaman akan menjadi bodoh; orang bijaksana akan bertambah pengetahuannya. |
| Indonesian-Terjemahan Lama | Bahwa kebodohan menjadi pusaka orang yang bebal, tetapi pengetahuan itulah makota orang yang berbudi. |
| Italian | Gli inesperti erediteranno la stoltezza, i prudenti si coroneranno di scienza. |
| Korean | 어 리 석 은 자 " 어 리 석 음 으 로 기 업 을 삼 아 도 슬 기 로 운 자 " 지 식 으 로 면 류 관 을 삼 느 니 라 |
| Maori | ¶ He wairangi te whakarerenga iho mo nga kuware; ko te tangata tupato ia ka karaunatia ki te matauranga. |
| Norwegian | De enfoldige har fått dårskap i arv, men de kloke krones med kunnskap. |
| Portuguese | Os simples herdam a estultícia; mas os prudentes se coroam de conhecimento. |
| Rumanian | Cei prowti au parte de nebunie, dar oamenii chibzuiyi sknt kncununayi cu wtiinyq. - |
| Russian | оЕЧЕЦ"Щ ПМХЮБАФ Ч Х"ЕМ УЕ'Е ЗМХ ПУФШ, Б 'МБЗПТБЪХНОЩЕ ХЧЕОЮБАФУС ЪОБОЙЕН. |
| Spanish | Los ingenuos heredarán insensatez, pero los sagaces se coronarán de conocimiento. |
| Swedish | De fåkunniga hava fått oförnuft till sin arvedel, men de kloka bliva krönta med kunskap. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Derivations | |
Words ending with "crowned": decrowned, discrowned, recrowned, uncrowned. (additional references) | |
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"Crowned" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: croned, crosned, crowet, crowne, crownes, Crunden, growned, Mcrowen, rowned. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "crowned" (pronounced krou"nd) |
| 4 | -r ou" n d | aground, browned, drowned, frowned, ground, round. |
| 3 | -ou" n d | abound, around, astound, bound, confound, downed, expound, found, hound, impound, inbound, mound, newfound, pound, profound, propound, rebound, redound, renowned, resound, sound, surround, ultrasound, unbound, unsound, unwound, wound. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: decrown. | |
| Words within the letters "c-d-e-n-o-r-w" | |
-1 letter: corned, crowed, downer, wonder. | |
-2 letters: coden, coder, coned, cored, cowed, cower, credo, crone, crowd, crown, decor, dower, drone, drown, endow, owned, owner, recon, redon, rewon, rowed, rowen. | |
-3 letters: cero, code, coed, cone, cord, core, corn, crew, crow, deco, doer, done, dore, down, drew, enow, nerd, node, once, owed, redo, rend, rode, wend, word. | |
| Words containing the letters "c-d-e-n-o-r-w" | |
+1 letter: decrowns. | |
+2 letters: cornrowed, decrowned, recrowned, uncrowded, uncrowned. | |
+3 letters: becrowding, chowdering, cordwainer, decrowning, discrowned, scowdering. | |
+4 letters: becowarding, candlepower, cordwainers, cordwainery, countrywide, crowdedness, trickledown. | |
+5 letters: candlepowers, counterworld, cowardliness, henceforward, overcrowding. | |
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