CROWNING

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does crowning mean? 

• CROWNING (adjective)
  The adjective CROWNING has 2 senses:

1. representing a level of the highest possible achievement or attainment

2. forming or providing a crown or summit

  Familiarity information: CROWNING used as an adjective is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CROWNING (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Representing a level of the highest possible achievement or attainment

Context example:

the crowning accomplishment of his career

Similar:

ultimate (furthest or highest in degree or order; utmost or extreme)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Forming or providing a crown or summit

Context example:

her hair was her crowning glory

Similar:

top (situated at the top or highest position)

 Context examples 

Crowning is when your baby's scalp comes into view.

(Childbirth, Dept. of Health and Human Services Office on Women's Health)

Yet to his sins he never added the crowning one of hypocrisy.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Then Jo and Meg, with a detachment of the bigger boys, set forth the supper on the grass, for an out-of-door tea was always the crowning joy of the day.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

Should I bring it to a successful conclusion, it will certainly represent the crowning glory of my career.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

That, quoth the other complacently, was my final argument, my crowning effort, or peroratio, as the orators have it.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Above these, were range upon range of craggy steeps, grey rock, bright ice, and smooth verdure-specks of pasture, all gradually blending with the crowning snow.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

Ever since their crowning triumph with the ape-men they looked upon us as supermen, who bore victory in the tubes of strange weapons, and they believed that so long as we remained with them good fortune would be theirs.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

At this crowning insult the sompnour, with a face ashen with rage, raised up a quivering hand and began pouring Latin imprecations upon the angry alderman.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

There we left him then in the dim-lit London drawing-room, beside himself with pity for this shallow and most artificial woman, while without, at the edge of the Piccadilly curb, there stood the high dark berline ready to start him upon that long journey which was to end in his chase of the French fleet over seven thousand miles of ocean, his meeting with it, his victory, which confined Napoleon’s ambition for ever to the land, and his death, coming, as I would it might come to all of us, at the crowning moment of his life.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

But the crowning joke was Mr. Laurence and Aunt March, for when the stately old gentleman chasseed solemnly up to the old lady, she just tucked her cane under her arm, and hopped briskly away to join hands with the rest and dance about the bridal pair, while the young folks pervaded the garden like butterflies on a midsummer day.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)