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Definition: Crowning |
CrowningAdjective1. Representing a level of the highest possible achievement or attainment; "the crowning accomplishment of his career". 2. Forming or providing a crown or summit; "the crowning star on a Christmas tree"; "her hair was her crowning glory". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "crowning" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1321. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Mechanical Engineering | Progressive reduction of tooth thickness towards each end of a gear tooth. Source: European Union. (references) |
Mining | The heaving or lifting of the floor beds along a roadway to form a ridgeor crown along the centerline. (references) |
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Synonym: CrowningSynonym: crowning(a) (adj). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Completion | Noun: completion, accomplishment, achievement, fulfillment; performance, execution; despatch, dispatch; consummation, culmination; finish, conclusion; close; (end); terminus; (arrival); winding up; finale, denouement, catastrophe, issue, upshot, result; final touch, last touch, crowning touch, finishing touch, finishing stroke; last finish, coup de grace; crowning of the edifice; coping-stone, keystone; missing link; superstructure, ne plus ultra, work done, fait accompli. |
Adjective: completing, final; concluding, conclusive; crowning; Verb: exhaustive. | |
End | Adjective: ending; Verb: final, terminal, definitive; crowning; (completing); last, ultimate; hindermost; rear; caudal; vergent. |
Summit | Noun: summit, summity; top, peak, vertex, apex, zenith, pinnacle, acme, culmination, meridian, utmost height, ne plus utra, height, pitch, maximum, climax, culminating point, crowning point, turning point; turn of the tide, fountain head; water shed, water parting; sky, pole. |
Superiority | Supreme, greatest, utmost, paramount, preeminent, foremost, crowning; first-rate; (important), (excellent); unrivaled peerless, matchless; none such, second to none, sans pareil; unparagoned, unparalleled, unequalled, unapproached, unsurpassed; superlative, inimitable facile princeps, incomparable, sovereign, without parallel, nulli secundus, ne plus ultra; beyond compare, beyond comparison; culminating; (topmost); transcendent, transcendental;plus royaliste que le Roi, more catholic than the Pope |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Crowning |
| English words defined with "crowning": Capsheaf, capstone, copestone ♦ finishing touch ♦ Gutter member ♦ Laureation ♦ May Day. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "crowning": Crown ♦ Wayzgoose. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "crowning": Crown. (references) |
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Movie/TV Titles | The Crowning Gift (1967) Crowning the Count (1926) Her Crowning Achievement (1917) | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
 | Torches or spot fires can be ignited by sparks from crowning trees two or more miles away. Credit: USDA. |  | Shaw crowning a bust of Shaw. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Her crowning prestige. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Any chance of crowning these international queens?. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Crowning the carnival queen, ground breaking celebration, San Diego, Cal. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Dorothy Zimmerman, as Spring, crowning Irma Sweeney as the May Queen at the May Day festival at the Neighborhood House, Washington, D.C. Credit: Library of Congress. |
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| Author | Quotation |
Edwin Markham | The crest and crowning of all good, life's final star, is Brotherhood. |
James Russell Lowell | Endurance is the crowning quality... |
Kurt Vonnegut Jr. | I was taught that the human brain was the crowning glory of evolution so far, but I think it's a very poor scheme for survival. |
S. G. Tallentyre | The crowning blessing of life is to be born with a bias to some pursuit. |
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Dennis Miller | A crowning sensor in the chair can tell when the woman is fully dilated. |
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| "Crowning" is generally used as a lexical verb (-ing form) -- approximately 43.82% of the time. "Crowning" is used about 89 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Lexical Verb (-ing form) | 43.82% | 39 | 55,036 |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 35.96% | 32 | 61,292 |
| Noun (singular) | 14.61% | 13 | 97,576 |
| Noun (proper) | 5.62% | 5 | 157,705 |
| Total | 100.00% | 89 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expression using "crowning": crowning achievement. Additional references. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day | Expression | Frequency per Day |
crowning system | 15 | crowning dress | 3 |
crowning | 14 | crowning moment | 3 |
the crowning touch | 12 | crowning picture | 3 |
birth crowning | 9 | crowning moment pageant | 3 |
birth crowning picture | 7 | beauty crowning | 3 |
crowning tooth | 5 | beauty crowning pageant | 3 |
baby crowning | 5 | baby crowning photo | 2 |
crowning institute touch | 4 | baby crowning picture | 2 |
crowning glory | 4 | crowning sacrament | 2 |
birth child clip crowning home video | 4 | birth child crowning | 2 |
crowning mystery | 2 | ||
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| Language | Translations for "crowning"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | që kurorëzon, në formë kurore. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | متوج (crowned), تتويج (coronation, enthronement). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | върховен (high, imperial, meridian, paramount, sovereign, supreme), висш (empyreal, high, imperial, paramount, sovereign). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | (Crowned). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | vrcholný (highest, top). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | tilspidsning (ogive, tapering). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | elliptoide correctie (tapering), breedtewelving, bombering (tapering). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | tynnyrimäisyys (tapering), bombeeraus (tapering). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | couronnement, couronné (crowned), bombe (crown), bombé longitudinal, bombé de denture. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | krönend. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | κύρτωση κατά το πλάτος. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hebrew | מעטיר (crowned, decorated), עטור (adorned, coronation, crowned, embellished, embellishment, garnished, illustration, medal, ornament, ornamented), "מלכ" (coronation, enthronement), "עטר" (coronation, glans), 'ולת "כותרת (climax, masterpiece). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | koszorú (girdle, roller ring, rope, wreath), koronázás (coronation, enthronement, laureation), betetõzõ. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | bombatura (bowing, bulge, camber, convexity of roadway, crown, crown of roadway, curvature of roadway, dishing of roadway). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | 錦上 (crowning beauty with even greater glory), 東天紅 (crowning in the morning). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | き"じょう (crowning beauty with even greater glory, impregnable castle, recent situation or conditions, the reigning emperor), とうて""う (crowning in the morning). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Korean | 관을 "움. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | owningcray bombeado longitudinal. (various references) suprem (highest, in chief, paramount, supreme), încoronare (coronation). (various references) коронующий, выпуклость (bulge, bump, camber, convex, convexity, gibbosity, knob, protuberance, proturberance, salience, saliency, swell, swelling), венчающий. (various references) krunisanje (coronation). (various references) coronamiento (completion, top). (various references) fulländande (finishing). (various references) taç giyme (coronation), en yüksek (highest, maximum, paramount, record high, superlative, supreme, top, ultimate, utmost). (various references) що вінча". (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Language | Date | Source | Ezekiel Chapter 7, Verse 10 |
| Greek (transliterated) | 250 BC | Septuagint | Idou to peraV hkei idou hmera kuriou ei kai h rabdoV hnqhken h ubriV exanesthken |
| Latin | 405 | Vulgate | Ecce dies ecce venit egressa est contractio floruit virga germinavit superbia |
| Middle English | 1395 | Wyclif | Loo! the day, loo! it cometh; contricioun, or defoulynge to gidir, is gon out. The yerde florishide, priyd buriounede, wickidnes roos in the yerde of vnpitee; |
| Jacobean English | 1611 | King James | Behold the day, behold, it is come: the morning is gone forth; the rod hath blossomed, pride hath budded. |
| Victorian English | 1833 | Webster | Behold the day, behold, it is come; the morning is gone forth; the rod hath blossomed, pride hath budded. |
| Basic English | 1964 | Ogden | See, the day; see, it is coming: the crowning time has gone out; the twisted way is flowering, pride has put out buds. |
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| Language | Ezekiel Chapter 7, Verse 10 |
| Cebuano | Ania karon, ang adlaw, tan-awa, kini miabut na: ang imong pagahinukman migula na; ang sungkod namulak, ang pagpalabilabi namutot. |
| Croatian | Evo, evo dolazi, kolo ti udesa dolazi, prut veæ cvjeta i oholost pupa, |
| Danish | Se, Dagen! Se, det kommer; Turen kommer til dig"! Riset blomstrer, Overmodet grønnes. |
| Dutch | Ziet, de dag, ziet, de morgenstond is gekomen, de morgenstond is voortgekomen, de roede heeft gebloeid, de hovaardij heeft gegroend. |
| Finnish | Katso, päivä! Katso, se tulee! Vuoro on tullut, vitsa kukkii, julkeus versoo. |
| French | Voici le jour! voici, il vient! Le tour arrive! La verge fleurit! L`orgueil s`épanouit! |
| German | Siehe, der Tag, siehe, er kommt daher, er bricht an; die Rute blüht, und der Stolze grünt. |
| Haitian Creole | Men jou malè a rive sou nou. Nou pral fini nèt! Baton nan dèyè nou! Lwijanboje yo toupatou! |
| Hungarian | Ímé a nap, ímé eljött, kisarjadt a végzet, kivirágzott a vesszõ, kivirult a kevélység. |
| Indonesian-Bahasa Sehari-hari | Hari bencana bagi bangsa Israel telah tiba. Kekerasan merajalela. Kesombongan mencapai puncaknya. |
| Indonesian-Terjemahan Lama | Bahwasanya hari itu, bahkan, hari itu sudah datang, ketika yang akhir telah sampai, tongkatnya sudah tumbuh, congkaknya sudah berbunga. |
| Italian | Ecco il giorno, eccolo che arriva. E' giunta la tua sorte. L'ingiustizia fiorisce, germoglia l'orgoglio |
| Maori | Nana, te ra; nana, kua tae mai: kua puta te mea ku rite mou; kua puawai te tokotoko, kua kopuku te whakapehapeha. |
| Portuguese | Eis o dia! Eis que vem! Veio a tua ruína; já floresceu a vara, já brotou a soberba. : |
| Rumanian | Iatq ziua! Iatq -o cq vine! Kyi vine rkndul! Knflorewte toiagul, odrqslewte mkndria! |
| Russian | чПФ "ЕОШ! ЧПФ ТЙЫМБ, ОБУФХ ЙМБ ОБ БУФШ! ЦЕЪМ ЧЩТПУ, ЗПТ"ПУФШ ТБЪТПУМБУШ. |
| Spanish | "¡He aquí el día! He aquí que viene; ha llegado el desenlace. La vara ha echado brotes; ha reverdecido la arrogancia. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Derivations | |
Words ending with "crowning": decrowning, discrowning, recrowning, uncrowning. (additional references) | |
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"Crowning" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: croaning, cronig, croning, crowings, Crowlin, crownings, crowying. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "crowning" (pronounced krou"ning) |
| 5 | -r ou" n i ng | Browning, drowning, frowning. |
| 4 | -ou" n i ng | clowning, Downing. |
| 3 | -n i ng | abandoning, abstaining, adjoining, adjourning, aligning, apportioning, ascertaining, assigning, attaining, auctioning, auditioning, awakening, awning, ballooning, banning, bargaining, battening, beckoning, beginning, bemoaning, binning, blackening, bludgeoning, boning, branning, brightening, brining, broadening, burdening, burgeoning, burning, campaigning, caning, Canning, captioning, careening, cartooning, cautioning, chaining, championing, chaperoning, cheapening, christening, churning, cleaning, cloning, coarsening, cocooning, coining, combining, commissioning, complaining, concerning, conditioning, condoning, confining, conning, constraining, containing, convening, Corning, couponing, crooning, cunning, cushioning, dampening, darkening, dawning, deadening, deafening, declining, decommissioning, deepening, defining, demeaning, Denning, designing, detaining, determining, dining, Dinning, discerning, disciplining, disdaining, disheartening, disillusioning, divining, donning, draining, droning, Dunning, Durning, earning, enjoining, enlightening, entertaining, envisioning, evening, examining, explaining, fanning, fashioning, fastening, fattening, fawning, feigning, fining, finning, flattening, freshening, frightening, functioning, gaining, gardening, ginning, glistening, governing, greening, grinning, groaning, gunning, happening, hardening, hastening, headlining, heartening, heightening, honing, Horning, housecleaning, imagining, imprisoning, impugning, inning, intertwining, intervening, intoning, ironing, jawboning, jettisoning, joining, Kenning, leaning, learning, leavening, lengthening, lessening, lightening, lightning, likening, lining, listening, loaning, loosening, machining, maddening, maintaining, malfunctioning, Manning, margining, meaning, mentioning, midmorning, mining, moaning, morning, motioning, mourning, obtaining, opening, opining, ordaining, orphaning, outlining, overrunning, overtraining, overturning, owning, panning, pardoning, partitioning, penning, pertaining, petitioning, phoning, pining, pinning, planning, poisoning, positioning, postponing, preening, preplanning, provisioning, pruning, quarantining, questioning, quickening, raining, rationing, realigning, reasoning, reassigning, reawakening, reckoning, reclining, reconditioning, redefining, redesigning, redlining, reexamining, refining, refraining, regaining, reigning, reining, rejoining, relearning, remaining, reopening, repositioning, rerunning, resigning, restraining, retaining, retraining, returning, rezoning, ripening, ruining, running, saddening, sanctioning, scanning, screening, seasoning, sectioning, sharpening, shining, shortening, shunning, sickening, signing, sinning, siphoning, slackening, softening, spanning, spawning, spinning, spurning, staining, stationing, stiffening, stoning, straightening, straining, streamlining, strengthening, stunning, summoning, sunning, sustaining, sweetening, swooning, tanning, telephoning, thickening, thinning, threatening, tightening, toning, toughening, training, tuning, turning, twining, underlining, undermining, underpinning, unquestioning, unreasoning, vacationing, Vining, waning, warning, weakening, weaning, whining, whitening, widening, wining, winning, worsening, yawning, yearning, zoning. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "c-g-i-n-n-o-r-w" | |
-1 letter: corning, crowing, ingrown. | |
-2 letters: coning, coring, cowing, owning, rowing. | |
-3 letters: coign, conin, corgi, crown, giron, groin, grown, incog, orcin, orgic, owing, wring, wrong. | |
-4 letters: cion, coin, coir, coni, conn, corn, crow, girn, giro, gown, grin, grow, icon, inro, iron, noir, nori, ring, wing, wino, worn. | |
-5 letters: cig, cog, con, cor, cow, gin, gor, inn, ion. | |
| Words containing the letters "c-g-i-n-n-o-r-w" | |
+2 letters: cornrowing, decrowning, recrowning, uncrowning. | |
+3 letters: discrowning. | |
+5 letters: narrowcasting. | |
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