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Crown can be an adjective, a verb or a noun.

crown used as an adjective:

  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"

Adjectives are are describing words. An adjective is a word that modifies a noun or pronoun (examples: small, scary, silly). Adjectives make the meaning of a noun more precise. Learn more →

crown used as a verb:

  1. To place a crown on the head of.
  2. To formally declare (someone) a king or emperor.
  3. To declare (someone) a winner.
  4. 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."
  5. To hit on the head
  6. To shoot an opponent in the back of the head with a shotgun in a first-person shooter video game.
  7. 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."

Verbs are action words and state of being words. Examples of action words are: ran, attacking, dreamed. Examples of "state of being" words are: is, was, be. Learn more →

crown used as a noun:

  1. A reward of victory or a mark of honor.
  2. A royal, imperial or princely headdress; a diadem.
  3. 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
  4. A wreath or band for the head.
  5. Imperial or regal power, or those who wield it.
    "Treasure trove automatically becomes property of the Crown."
  6. The topmost part of the head.
  7. The highest part a hill.
  8. The top part of a hat.
  9. The raised centre of a road.
  10. The highest part of an arch.
  11. Splendor, finish, culmination.
    "crown achievement"
  12. Any currency (originally) issued by the crown (regal power) and often bearing a crown (headdress)
  13. Specifically, a former British coin worth five shillings.
  14. The part of a plant where the root and stem meet.
  15. The part of a tooth above the gums.
  16. A prosthetic covering for a tooth.
  17. A knot formed in the end of a rope by tucking in the strands to prevent them from unravelling
  18. The part of an anchor where the arms and the shank meet
  19. A standard size of printing paper measuring 20 inches x 15 inches.
  20. A monocyclic ligand having three or more binding sites, capable of holding a guest in a central location

Nouns are naming words. They are used to represent a person (soldier, Jamie), place (Germany, beach), thing (telephone, mirror), quality (hardness, courage), or an action (a run, a punch). Learn more →

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As detailed above, 'crown' can be an adjective, a verb or a noun. Here are some examples of its usage:
  1. Adjective usage: crown prince
  2. Adjective usage: a crown fire
  3. Verb usage: The mother was in the second stage of labor and the fetus had just crowned, prompting a round of encouragement from the midwives.
  4. Verb usage: “Crown me!” I said, as I moved my checker to the back row.
  5. Noun usage: Treasure trove automatically becomes property of the Crown.
  6. Noun usage: crown achievement

Unfortunately, with the current database that runs this site, I don't have data about which senses of crown are used most commonly. I've got ideas about how to fix this but will need to find a source of "sense" frequencies. Hopefully there's enough info above to help you understand the part of speech of crown, and guess at its most common usage.

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The dictionary is based on the amazing Wiktionary project by wikimedia. I initially started with WordNet, but then realised that it was missing many types of words/lemma (determiners, pronouns, abbreviations, and many more). This caused me to investigate the 1913 edition of Websters Dictionary - which is now in the public domain. However, after a day's work wrangling it into a database I realised that there were far too many errors (especially with the part-of-speech tagging) for it to be viable for Word Type.

Finally, I went back to Wiktionary - which I already knew about, but had been avoiding because it's not properly structured for parsing. That's when I stumbled across the UBY project - an amazing project which needs more recognition. The researchers have parsed the whole of Wiktionary and other sources, and compiled everything into a single unified resource. I simply extracted the Wiktionary entries and threw them into this interface! So it took a little more work than expected, but I'm happy I kept at it after the first couple of blunders.

Special thanks to the contributors of the open-source code that was used in this project: the UBY project (mentioned above), @mongodb and express.js.

Currently, this is based on a version of wiktionary which is a few years old. I plan to update it to a newer version soon and that update should bring in a bunch of new word senses for many words (or more accurately, lemma).

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