crowned

1. 1
   verb

   Simple past and past participle of crown.

   The judges crowned a new champion at the close of the tournament.

   She has crowned dozens of winners over her long career as pageant director.

   Note

   A regular past form, so one spelling covers both uses: they crowned her queen, and she was crowned queen. It carries the verb's whole range, from the coronation itself to declaring a winner or finishing something off, as in a career crowned by a title. In the birthing sense it takes no object and has no passive: the baby's head crowned.

2. 2
   adjective

   Wearing a crown, as a monarch or other royal figure does.

   The crowned empress entered the great hall to a wave of applause.

   A crowned saint appears at the center of the stained-glass window.

   Similarcoronate, coronated

   Oppositeuncrowned

3. 3
   adjective

   Having the crown (the top part of the head) of a specified type, often noted when describing birds.

   The kinglet is crowned with a vivid crest that flares when the bird is alarmed.

   Several finches in the region are crowned with streaks of crimson.

   Similarcapped, crested, topped

   Note

   In practice it rarely stands alone. It usually closes a compound that names the color or shape on top of the head, as in golden-crowned or ruby-crowned, and the compound sits before the noun: a ruby-crowned kinglet. Unlike the royal sense, nothing is being worn here. The crown is the head itself, so a golden-crowned bird has golden feathers there, not a golden ornament.

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