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A Crown

  1. A royal, imperial or princely headdress; a diadem.
  2. (heraldry) A representation of such a headdress, as in heraldry; it may even be that only the image exists, no physical crown, as in the case of the kingdom of Belgium; by analogy such crowns can be awarded to moral persons that don't even have a head, as the mural crown for cities in heraldry
  3. A wreath or band for the head, especially one given as reward of victory or a mark of honor.
  4. (by extension) Any reward of victory or mark of honor.
  5. Imperial or regal power, or those who wield it.
  6. (metonymically) The sovereign (in a monarchy), as head of state.
  7. (by extension, especially in law) The state, the government (headed by a monarch).
  8. The top part of something:
    1. The topmost part of the head.
    2. The highest part of a hill.
    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.
  9. (architecture) A kind of spire or lantern formed by converging flying buttresses.
  10. Splendor; culmination; acme.
  11. 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.
  12. (historical) A former pre-decimalization British coin worth five shillings.
  13. (botany) The part of a plant where the root and stem meet.
  14. (forestry) The top of a tree.
  15. (anatomy) The part of a tooth above the gums.
  16. (dentistry) A prosthetic covering for a tooth.
  17. (nautical) A knot formed in the end of a rope by tucking in the strands to prevent them from unravelling
  18. (nautical) The part of an anchor where the arms and the shank meet
  19. (nautical) The rounding, or rounded part, of the deck from a level line.
  20. (nautical, in the plural) The bights formed by the turns of a cable.
  21. (paper) In England, a standard size of printing paper measuring 20 × 15 inches.
  22. (paper) In American, a standard size of writing paper measuring 19 × 15 inches.
  23. (chemistry) A monocyclic ligand having three or more binding sites, capable of holding a guest in a central location
  24. (medicine) During childbirth, the appearance of the baby's head from the mother's vagina
  25. (firearms) A rounding or smoothing of the barrel opening
  26. (geometry) The area enclosed between two concentric perimeters.
  27. (religion) A round spot shaved clean on the top of the head, as a mark of the clerical state; the tonsure.
  28. A whole turkey with the legs and wings removed to produce a joint of white meat.
  29. (African American Vernacular, colloquial) A formal hat worn by women to Sunday church services; a church crown.
  30. The knurled knob or dial, on the outside of a watch case, used to wind it or adjust the hands
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