Corona

Quick meaning: Corona is a noun meaning A large, round, pendent chandelier, with spikes around its upper rim to hold candles or lamps, usually hung from the roof of a church.

Meaning

A large, round, pendent chandelier, with spikes around its upper rim to hold candles or lamps, usually hung from the roof of a church.

More Meanings

1. (anatomy) An upper or crownlike portion of certain parts of the body.
2. (by extension) Any luminous or crownlike ring around an object or person.
3. (biology) Any appendage of an organism that resembles a crown or corona (sense 4.1).
4. Any appendage of an organism that resembles a crown or corona (sense 4.1).
5. (architecture) The large, flat, projecting member of a cornice which crowns the entablature, situated above the bed moulding and below the cymatium.
6. The luminous plasma atmosphere of the Sun (the solar corona) or other star, extending millions of kilometres into space, most easily seen during a total solar eclipse.
7. An oval-shaped astrogeological feature, present on both the planet Venus and Uranus's moon Miranda, probably formed by upwellings of warm material below the surface.

Example Sentences

The magnificent bronze corona, or luminaria, which still hangs in the central octagon, shews the skill of the workmen in bronze of that period.

The area density of impact craters on the surfaces of the coronas suggests that the episode of tidal heating occurred approximately one billion years ago[…].

It looked like a miniaturized version of Hiroshima. Fires burned here and there. […] His once and future presidential palace was a crater ringed by a corona of flaming debris.

[Dale] Hawkins is a tall man, angular and knobby, with a rubbery, animated face and a corona of wavy gray hair, which he wears wet-combed back in a modified old-time pompadour.

Word Forms

• coronas
• coronae
• coronaing
• coronaed
• corone

Synonyms for corona

Depending on context, synonyms include drip, larmier, rona, aureole, corposant.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include corposant, aureole, sprocket, ring, coronet, crown.

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