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CROWNED
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I. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Provided with or as if with a crown or a crown as specified; often used in combination
Example:
a crowned signet ring
Classified under:
Similar:
capped (covered as if with a cap or crown especially of a specified kind)
chapleted (provided with a chaplet)
comate; comose (bearing a coma; crowned with an assemblage of branches or leaves or bracts)
high-crowned ((of a hat) having a high crown)
royal (invested with royal power as symbolized by a crown)
Antonym:
uncrowned (not (especially not yet) provided with a crown)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Having an (artificial) crown on a tooth
Example:
had many crowned teeth
Classified under:
Similar:
capped (used especially of front teeth having (artificial) crowns)
Domain category:
dental medicine; dentistry; odontology (the branch of medicine dealing with the anatomy and development and diseases of the teeth)
Antonym:
uncrowned (not having an (artificial) crown on a tooth; used especially of molars and bicuspids)
Sense 3
Meaning:
Crowned with or as if with laurel symbolizing victory
Synonyms:
Classified under:
Adjectives
II. (verb)
Sense 1
Past simple / past participle of the verb crown
Context examples:
Many a summer evening have Boy Jim and I lain upon the grass, watching all these grand folk, and cheering the London coaches as they came roaring through the dust clouds, leaders and wheelers stretched to their work, the bugles screaming and the coachmen with their low-crowned, curly-brimmed hats, and their faces as scarlet as their coats.
(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
I cannot tell you what it was—mama cannot imagine what it was—to have this dread and trouble always on my mind, yet know in my own soul that on my marriage-day I crowned the love and honour of my life!
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
Mine is no squalor of song that cannot transmute itself, with proper exchange value, into a flower-crowned cottage, a sweet mountain- meadow, a grove of redwoods, an orchard of thirty-seven trees, one long row of blackberries and two short rows of strawberries, to say nothing of a quarter of a mile of gurgling brook.
(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)
These animals include jaguars, Spix's macaws, harpy eagles, vinaceous-breasted amazons, crowned solitary eagles, hawksbill turtles, green turtles, tarantulas, Amazon false coral snakes, Brazilian green racer snakes, cream-colored woodpeckers, blue spiny starfish, sharks, seahorses, piaba fish, sawfish, bluefin tuna, brown howler monkeys.
(Over 300 animal species threatened in Bahia, Agência Brasil)
Jupiter has crowned you his celestial favorite in 2020, and although that’s the title everyone wants, the other zodiac signs will have to wait their turn—some will have to wait many years.
(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)
At one point was an isolated pyramidal rock, crowned by a great tree, which appeared to be separated by a cleft from the main crag.
(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
The dim forehead was crowned with a star; the lineaments below were seen as through the suffusion of vapour; the eyes shone dark and wild; the hair streamed shadowy, like a beamless cloud torn by storm or by electric travail.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
Out in the garden stood a stately snow maiden, crowned with holly, bearing a basket of fruit and flowers in one hand, a great roll of music in the other, a perfect rainbow of an Afghan round her chilly shoulders, and a Christmas carol issuing from her lips on a pink paper streamer.
(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)
'He would not,' he said, 'stand for more than a moment between that vast assembly and the treat which lay before them. It was not for him to anticipate what Professor Summerlee, who was the spokesman of the committee, had to say to them, but it was common rumor that their expedition had been crowned by extraordinary success.'
(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Provided with a case of pencils, and some sheets of paper, I used to take a seat apart from them, near the window, and busy myself in sketching fancy vignettes, representing any scene that happened momentarily to shape itself in the ever-shifting kaleidoscope of imagination: a glimpse of sea between two rocks; the rising moon, and a ship crossing its disk; a group of reeds and water-flags, and a naiad's head, crowned with lotus- flowers, rising out of them; an elf sitting in a hedge-sparrow's nest, under a wreath of hawthorn-bloom.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
