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coronation

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WordNet Word definitions in WordNet
n. the ceremony of installing a new monarch [syn: enthronement , enthronization , enthronisation , investiture ]

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Coronation (also known as Coronation V , foaled 1946) was a French racehorse . In a racing career which lasted from the spring of 1948 until October 1950, she ran thirteen times and won six races. As a two-year-old she was one of the best fillies of her ...

Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 The act or solemnity of crowning a sovereign; the act of investing a prince with the insignia of royalty, on his succeeding to the sovereignty. 2 (context figuratively English) A success in the face of little or no opposition.

Usage examples of coronation.

Gray son, Archbishop of Sorandor, surveyed the mounting crowd in the streets below his archepiscopal palace with awe and not a little apprehension as he awaited the hour of the Coronation.

Around the square, right into Coronation Street, third left into Brookside, past Peyton Place, into Tin Pan Alley.

Coronation Street, East Enders, Brookside, Neighbours or any Aussie or any other sort of soap.

The Labor Day run to the Brownfield campsite 20 miles north of Coronation starts in 1973.

The Countess of Sandport lent her cherished portative wind-organ and an ensemble of musicians to enhance the dignity of the feast of welcome and the coronation ceremony itself, while the gleemen of Lord Mosstor would provide earthier entertainment during the reception and grand banquet scheduled to wind up the celebration tomorrow.

Ever since then the Stone of Scone has been under the coronation throne in Westminster and English kings have been crowned on it.

A wind had dispelled the heat wave that had lingered, according to the natives, unusually long into the autumn season, so it was no hardship to pass the afternoon in gossip and splendor as petitioners came and went, most of them artisans and guildsmen fashioning the many trappings and the great feast that would accompany the coronation.

Newport despatched the presents round by water a hundred miles, and the Captains, with fifty soldiers, went over land to Werowocomoco, where occurred the ridiculous ceremony of the coronation, which Smith describes with much humor.

Javan looked where Charlan indicated, for the Kheldish lords-at least the Earls of Eastmarch and Marley-had, indeed, decided to grace the coronation with their presence, but so accoutred as to cause serious uncertainty about their intentions.

Behind them came Rhys Michael, still escorted by his Kheldish earls, followed by other nobility entitled to a place in the coronation procession.

Engrossed in fetes and Coronation rites, Abide till, at the need, I reach Boulogne, And head the enterprize.

Smith, as we have seen, estimated at their full insignificance such flummeries as the coronation of Powhatan, and the foolishness of taxing the energies of the colony to explore the country for gold and chase the phantom of the South Sea.

The magicians gather with all who can travel to the Holy City for the coronation of the new Emperor.

This coronation of Gorilla is a blot on the pontificate of the present Pope, for henceforth no man of genuine merit will accept the honour which was once so carefully guarded by the giants of human intellect.

In Poland, some years afterwards, I saw the same caprice at the coronation of Stanislas Augustus Poniatowski, and the old palatine noblemen almost broke their hearts at the sight of that costume.