【crown】在多语言下的意思、翻译、词源、用法、例句

英语(English)

词源1(Etymology 1)

From Middle English coroune, croune, crowne, from Anglo-Norman coroune, curune, corone (French couronne), from Latin corōna (“garland, crown, wreath”), from Ancient Greek κορώνη (korṓnē). Doublet of corona. Displaced Middle English: beigh, beiȝ, bē, biȝ, by from Old English bēag (“crown, garland, necklace”).

• (paper size): So called because originally watermarked with a crown.

发音(Pronunciation)

• (Received Pronunciation, US) IPA^(key): /kɹaʊn/

• Audio (CA)

• Rhymes: -aʊn

名词(Noun)

crown (plural crowns)

1. A royal, imperial or princely headdress; a diadem.

   Synonyms: coronet, diadem

2. A wreath or band for the head, especially one given as reward of victory or a mark of honor.

   Synonyms: garland, wreath

3. (by extension) Any reward of victory or mark of honor.

   Synonyms: award, garland, honor, prize, wreath

   the martyr’s crown

4. Imperial or regal power, or those who wield it.

   Synonyms: monarchy, royalty

5. (metonymically) The sovereign (in a monarchy), as head of state.
   • 1765, William Blackstone, “Of the Parliament”, in Commentaries on the Laws of England, book I (Of the Rights of Persons), Oxford: Printed at the Clarendon Press, OCLC 65350522, page 181:

     A parliament may be diſſolved by the demiſe of the crown.

6. (by extension, especially in law) The state, the government (headed by a monarch).

   Treasure recovered from shipwrecks automatically becomes property of the Crown.

   • 1849, Thomas Babington Macaulay, chapter X, in The History of England from the Accession of James II, volume I, London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, OCLC 1069526323, page 597:

     Large arrears of pay were due to the civil and military servants of the crown; and only forty thousand pounds remained in the Exchequer.

7. The top part of something:
   1. The topmost part of the head.

      Synonyms: apex, top

      • 1610–1611, William Shakespeare, “The Tempest”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358, [Act IV, scene i], page 16, column 1:

        [I]f he awake, / From toe to crowne hee'l fill our skin with pinches, / Make vs ſtrange ſtuffe.

      • 1678, John Bunyan, “The Author’s Apology for His Book”, in The Pilgrim’s Progress from This World, to That which is to Come:[…], London: […] Nath[aniel] Ponder[…], OCLC 228725984; reprinted in The Pilgrim’s Progress (The Noel Douglas Replicas), London: Noel Douglas,[…], 1928, OCLC 5190338:

        In more than twenty things, which I ſet down; / This done, I twenty more had in my Crown, / And they again began to multiply, / Like ſparks that from the coals of fire do fly.

   2. The highest part of a hill.

      Synonyms: apex, peak, summit, top

      Antonyms: base, bottom, foot

      • 1697, “The Sixth Book of the Æneis”, in John Dryden, transl., The Works of Virgil: Containing His Pastorals, Georgics, and Æneis.[…], London: […] Jacob Tonson,[…], OCLC 403869432, lines 267–268, page 370:

        Huge Trunks of Trees, fell'd from the ſteepy Crown / Of the bare Mountains, rowl with Ruin down.

   3. The top section of a hat, above the brim.
   4. The raised centre of a road.
   5. The highest part of an arch.
   6. The upper range of facets in a rose diamond.
   7. The dome of a furnace.
8. (architecture) A kind of spire or lantern formed by converging flying buttresses.
9. Splendor; culmination; acme.

   Synonyms: completion, culmination, finish, splendor

   • 1667, John Milton, “Book IV”, in Paradise Lost. A Poem Written in Ten Books, London: […] [Samuel Simmons],[…], OCLC 228722708; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books:[…], London: Basil Montagu Pickering[…], 1873, OCLC 230729554, lines 727–729:

     [H]appie in our mutual help / And mutual love, the Crown of all our bliſs / Ordain'd by thee, [...]

10. Any currency (originally) issued by the crown (regal power) and often bearing a crown (headdress); (translation) various currencies known by similar names in their native languages, such as the koruna, kruna, krone, korona.
11. (historical) A former pre-decimalization British coin worth five shillings.

    Synonyms: caser, tusheroon, tush, tosheroon, tosh, bull, caroon, thick-un, coachwheel, cartwheel

    • 1859, J.C. Hotten, A Dictionary of Modern Slang, Cant, and Vulgar Words:

      Half-a-crown is known as an alderman, half a bull, half a tusheroon, and a madza caroon; whilst a crown piece, or five shillings, may be called either a bull, or a caroon, or a cartwheel, or a coachwheel, or a thick-un, or a tusheroon.

12. (botany) The part of a plant where the root and stem meet.
13. (forestry) The top of a tree.
14. (anatomy) The part of a tooth above the gums.

    Synonym: corona

15. (dentistry) A prosthetic covering for a tooth.

    Synonyms: dental crown, dental cap

16. (nautical) A knot formed in the end of a rope by tucking in the strands to prevent them from unravelling
17. (nautical) The part of an anchor where the arms and the shank meet
18. (nautical) The rounding, or rounded part, of the deck from a level line.
19. (nautical, in the plural) The bights formed by the turns of a cable.

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20. (paper) In England, a standard size of printing paper measuring 20 × 15 inches.
21. (paper) In American, a standard size of writing paper measuring 19 × 15 inches.
22. (chemistry) A monocyclic ligand having three or more binding sites, capable of holding a guest in a central location
23. (medicine) During childbirth, the appearance of the baby's head from the mother's vagina
    • 2007, David Schottke, American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons, First Responder: Your First Response in Emergency Care, page 385

      You will see the baby's head crowning during contractions, at which time you must prepare to assist the mother in the delivery of the baby.

24. (firearms) A rounding or smoothing of the barrel opening
25. (geometry) The area enclosed between two concentric perimeters.
26. (religion) A round spot shaved clean on the top of the head, as a mark of the clerical state; the tonsure.
27. A whole bird with the legs and wings removed to produce a joint of white meat.
28. (African-American Vernacular, colloquial) A formal hat worn by women to Sunday church services; a church crown.
    • 2013, Adam Boulton, Tony's Ten Years: Memories of the Blair Administration‎^[1]:

      "His [Barack Obama's] unofficial slogan 'fired up and ready to go!' was borrowed from an 'old lady in a church crown [Sunday best hat]."

29. The knurled knob or dial, on the outside of a watch case, used to wind it or adjust the hands.

衍生词(Derived terms)

派生词(Descendants)

• → Japanese: クラウン (kuraun)
• → Maori: karauna

翻译(Translations)

形容词(Adjective)

crown (not comparable)

1. Of, related to, or pertaining to a crown.

   crown prince

2. Of, related to, pertaining to the top of a tree or trees.

   a crown fire

翻译(Translations)

动词(Verb)

crown (third-person singular simple present crowns, present participle crowning, simple past and past participle crowned)

1. To place a crown on the head of.
2. To formally declare (someone) a king, queen, emperor, etc.
   • 1665, John Dryden, The Indian Emperour

     Her who fairest does appear, / Crown her queen of all the year.

3. To bestow something upon as a mark of honour, dignity, or recompense; to adorn; to dignify.
   • 1611, The Holy Bible,[…] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker,[…], OCLC 964384981, Psalms 8:5:

     Thou […] hast crowned him with glory and honour.

4. To form the topmost or finishing part of; to complete; to consummate; to perfect.
   • 1812, Lord Byron, Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage. A Romaunt, London: Printed for John Murray,[…]; William Blackwood, Edinburgh; and John Cumming, Dublin; by Thomas Davison,[…], OCLC 22697011, canto II, stanza XLIX:

     the grove that crowns yon tufted hill

   • 1856, John Lothrop Motley, The Rise of the Dutch Republic

     To crown the whole, came a proposition.

5. To declare (someone) a winner.
   • 2011 October 23, Tom Fordyce, “2011 Rugby World Cup final: New Zealand 8-7 France”, in BBC Sport‎^[2]:

     New Zealand were crowned world champions for the first time in 24 years after squeezing past an inspired France team by a single point.

6. (medicine) Of a baby, during the birthing process; for the surface of the baby's head to appear in the vaginal opening.

   The mother was in the second stage of labor and the fetus had just crowned, prompting a round of encouragement from the midwives.

7. (transitive) To cause to round upward; to make anything higher at the middle than at the edges, such as the face of a machine pulley.
8. To hit on the head.
   • 1963, Margery Allingham, chapter 6, in The China Governess‎^[3]:

     &lquo;[…] I remember a lady coming to inspect St. Mary's Home where I was brought up and seeing us all in our lovely Elizabethan uniforms we were so proud of, and bursting into tears all over us because “it was wicked to dress us like charity children”. We nearly crowned her we were so offended. She saw us but she didn't know us, did she?’.

9. (video games) To shoot an opponent in the back of the head with a shotgun in a first-person shooter video game.
10. (board games) In checkers, to stack two checkers to indicate that the piece has become a king.

    “Crown me!” I said, as I moved my checker to the back row.

11. (firearms) To widen the opening of the barrel.
12. (military) To effect a lodgment upon, as upon the crest of the glacis, or the summit of the breach.
13. (nautical) To lay the ends of the strands of (a knot) over and under each other.

衍生词(Derived terms)

• crowned

翻译(Translations)

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词源2(Etymology 2)

发音(Pronunciation)

• IPA^(key): /kɹoʊn/
• Rhymes: -oʊn

动词(Verb)

crown

1. (archaic) past participle of crow
   • 1823, Byron, Don Juan

     The cock had crown.

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中古英语(Middle English)

名词(Noun)

crown

1. Alternative form of coroune