Crossword clues for crowned
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Crown \Crown\ (kroun), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Crowned (kround); p. pr. & vb. n. Crowning.] [OE. coronen, corunen, crunien, crounien, OF. coroner, F. couronner, fr. L. coronare, fr. corona a crown. See Crown, n.]
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To cover, decorate, or invest with a crown; hence, to invest with royal dignity and power.
Her who fairest does appear, Crown her queen of all the year.
--Dryden.Crown him, and say, ``Long live our emperor.''
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To bestow something upon as a mark of honor, dignity, or recompense; to adorn; to dignify.
Thou . . . hast crowned him with glory and honor.
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To form the topmost or finishing part of; to complete; to consummate; to perfect.
Amidst the grove that crowns yon tufted hill.
--Byron.One day shall crown the alliance.
--Shak.To crown the whole, came a proposition.
--Motley. (Mech.) To cause to round upward; to make anything higher at the middle than at the edges, as the face of a machine pulley.
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(Mil.) To effect a lodgment upon, as upon the crest of the glacis, or the summit of the breach.
To crown a knot (Naut.), to lay the ends of the strands over and under each other.
Crowned \Crowned\ (kround), p. p. & a.
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Having or wearing a crown; surmounted, invested, or adorned, with a crown, wreath, garland, etc.; honored; rewarded; completed; consummated; perfected. ``Crowned with one crest.''
--Shak. ``Crowned with conquest.''
--Milton.With surpassing glory crowned.
--Milton. Great; excessive; supreme. [Obs.]
--Chaucer.
Wiktionary
(context obsolete English) Great; excessive; supreme. v
(en-past of: crown)
WordNet
adj. having an artificial crown on a tooth; "had many crowned teeth" [ant: uncrowned]
crowned with or as if with laurel symbolizing victory [syn: laureled, laurelled] [ant: unlaureled]
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" [ant: uncrowned]
Wikipedia
Crowned may refer to:
- Coronation
- Crowned (web series), an American comedy web series
- Crowned: The Mother of All Pageants, an American TV series
Crowned is an American comedy web series created by Josh Bednarsky and his wife Brianne Sanborn, who also wrote, directed and star in the episodes. The show follows Macie Edwards, an unemployed actress who, in a desperate effort to keep her apartment and pay her cat's medical bills takes a job as a Party Princess in North Hollywood, CA. The series depicts the everyday routine of party princesses in the fictional Crowned Entertainment Company. Most of the show follows a standard narrative style but often cuts to interviews with the employees of the fictional corporation to simulate the look of a documentary.
Usage examples of "crowned".
While Makerakera the expert on aggression sweated frantically to weld together a scratch team of whoever could be spared to join him - Choong from Hong Kong, Jenny Fender from Indiana, Stanislaus Danquah from Accra, and some trainees - the little Greek Pericles Phranakis turned his back on the catastrophe and went away down a path of his own, to a land where success had crowned his efforts with a wreath of bay.
It was 1760, the year twenty-two-year-old George III was crowned king and Adams turned twenty-five.
Often at night Iranon sang to the revellers, but he was always as before, crowned only in the vine of the mountains and remembering the marble streets of Aira and the hyaline Nithra.
Whilst the numerous spectators, crowned with garlands, perfumed with incense, purified with the blood of victims, and surrounded with the altars and statues of their tutelar deities, resigned themselves to the enjoyment of pleasures, which they considered as an essential part of their religious worship, they recollected that the Christians alone abhorred the gods of mankind, and by their absence and melancholy on these solemn festivals, seemed to insult or to lament the public felicity.
A virtuoso imitation of the fruits of natural evolution crowned by anthropogenesis, the machine would represent a miracle of engineering, but also an oddity one would not know what to do with.
The Ardennes in winter has the look of an old-fashioned Christmas card-steep hills crowned with forests of fir trees, narrow winding rivers, and picture-book villages and quaint old stone castles tucked into deep valleys.
On the second finger of his right hand he wore a narrow gold ring, engraved with a compass and a backstaff, the tools of the navigator, and above these a crowned lion.
She could make out triangular heads crowned by two sets of backswept horns.
Eric crowned himself with bloodroot and contrived grass sandals for his feet.
Bunches of dried roses, statice, bullrushes and seedpods of poppies crowned the tops of the units in profusion.
The fact is Casanova felt his dependent position and his utter poverty, and was all the more determined to stand to his dignity as a man who had talked with all the crowned heads of Europe, and had fought a duel with the Polish general.
And above the clockface, itself above her head, a crowned king and queen knelt before an Amyrlin Seat in her enameled stole, with the Flame of Tar Valon, carved from a large moonstone, atop a golden arch over her head.
I could hardly blame him for crying out in alarm, though as the light strengthened I realized that the seemingly abnormal height of the newcomers was caused by the fact that they were mounted on camels and that their heads were covered by helmetlike caps crowned with feathers.
It was held spread by willow wit hies threaded into its hems and was attached to a long elm staff that was crowned with a golden figure of a dragon.
When he stepped out into the dim hall, he came face-to-face with the crowned muzzle of a hogleg, stainless-steel blaster-a Ruger Redhawk.