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CROWNED

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does crowned mean? 

CROWNED (adjective)
  The adjective CROWNED has 3 senses:

1. having an (artificial) crown on a toothplay

2. crowned with or as if with laurel symbolizing victoryplay

3. provided with or as if with a crown or a crown as specified; often used in combinationplay

  Familiarity information: CROWNED used as an adjective is uncommon.


 Dictionary entry details 


CROWNED (adjective)


Sense 1

Meaning:

Having an (artificial) crown on a tooth

Context example:

had many crowned teeth

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 2

Meaning:

Crowned with or as if with laurel symbolizing victory

Synonyms:

crowned; laureled; laurelled


Sense 3

Meaning:

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

Context example:

a crowned signet ring

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)


 Context examples 


I have too great a veneration for crowned heads, to dwell any longer on so nice a subject.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

I had coasted along the lower wall of the orchard—turned its angle: there was a gate just there, opening into the meadow, between two stone pillars crowned by stone balls.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

Jupiter recently entered your marriage sector for the first time in 12 years and has crowned you the sign most likely to wed in 2020.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

Before us lay a green sloping land full of forests and woods, with here and there steep hills, crowned with clumps of trees or with farmhouses, the blank gable end to the road.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

These, in turn, were crowded out by Japanese women, doll-like, stepping mincingly on wooden clogs; by Eurasians, delicate featured, stamped with degeneracy; by full-bodied South-Sea-Island women, flower-crowned and brown-skinned.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

Joy and gladness burst forth throughout the castle, the wedding was celebrated, and he was crowned king of the Golden Mountain.

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)

The hill, crowned with wood, which they had descended, receiving increased abruptness from the distance, was a beautiful object.

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)

Baron Rothschild's private secretary, a large-nosed Jew in tight boots, affably beamed upon the world, as if his master's name crowned him with a golden halo.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

I could distinctly see the isolated, tree-crowned pinnacle of rock which was detached from the crag.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

The whole of Lucy's behaviour in the affair, and the prosperity which crowned it, therefore, may be held forth as a most encouraging instance of what an earnest, an unceasing attention to self-interest, however its progress may be apparently obstructed, will do in securing every advantage of fortune, with no other sacrifice than that of time and conscience.

(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)



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