Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Having or wearing a crown or something like one.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective Having or wearing a crown.
  • adjective Having the coronal feathers lengthened or otherwise distinguished; -- said of birds.
  • adjective Girt about the spire with a row of tubercles or spines; -- said of spiral shells.
  • adjective (Biol.) Having a crest or a crownlike appendage.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • adjective Having or wearing a crown.
  • adjective zoology Having a crest or a crownlike appendage.
  • adjective zoology Having the coronal feathers lengthened or otherwise distinguished.
  • adjective zoology Girt about the spire with a row of tubercles or spines.
  • verb To crown a sovereign; to invest a prince with the insignia of royalty, on his succeeding to the sovereignty.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • verb invest with regal power; enthrone

Etymologies

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

From Latin coronatus ("crowned"), past perfect participle of corono ("I crown"), from corona ("crown").

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

From Latin corono ("I crown"), from corona ("crown").

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  • Finally, I added a word before anyone else. Coronate me.

    February 12, 2008

  • Nice word too. Congratulations King Taj, I hereby crown you King of this entire nation of Coro.

    February 12, 2008

  • Coronates, coronated, and coronating haven't been listed either. You could coroner the market!

    February 12, 2008

  • I would prefer this word as an adjective: "As a king coronate..."

    May 26, 2009