DIADEM

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does diadem mean? 

• DIADEM (noun)
  The noun DIADEM has 1 sense:

1. an ornamental jeweled headdress signifying sovereignty

  Familiarity information: DIADEM used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• DIADEM (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

An ornamental jeweled headdress signifying sovereignty

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Synonyms:

crown; diadem

Hypernyms ("diadem" is a kind of...):

crown jewels (regalia (jewelry and other paraphernalia) worn by a sovereign on state occasions)

jeweled headdress; jewelled headdress (a headdress adorned with jewels)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "diadem"):

coronet (a small crown; usually indicates a high rank but below that of sovereign)

crown of thorns (a mock crown made of thorn branches that Roman soldiers placed on Jesus before the Crucifixion)

 Context examples 

He opened the case, and taking out the diadem he laid it upon the table.

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

For, instead of a long train with royal diadems, I saw in one family two fiddlers, three spruce courtiers, and an Italian prelate.

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

There can, I think, be no doubt that this battered and shapeless diadem once encircled the brows of the royal Stuarts.

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