Meaning

(rare) To crown (a sovereign or champion)..

Definitions by Sense

1. (rare) To crown (a sovereign or champion).
2. (zoology) Having a crest or a crownlike appendage, a corona.
3. (zoology) Having the coronal feathers lengthened or otherwise distinguished.
4. (zoology, of a spiral shell) Girt about the spire with a row of tubercles or spines.
5. (as a participial adjective) Having or wearing a crown, crowned; (as a participle) crowned, coronated.

Example Sentences

[…] and instead of Coronating your deserved Worth […]

2023, USA Today On a soggy London day in June 1953, a bright-eyed 27-year-old married mother named Elizabeth was coronated as queen of England.

The whole field of literature has freely surrendered its classic gems to coronate him the intellectual king.

Tribals defy custom, bow to queen - Great Andamanese gear up to coronate first woman

The duke of Normandy / William conquerour […] Was coronate at London / […]

Maryus his ſoonne was then intronizate / And ſette on high in trone of maieſtie / With croune of golde full royally coronate / As worthy was vnto his royalte / Who nouriſhed was at Rome in his inuente / With his mothers kynne the beest of the empire / With Claudius also, that was his oune graũdsir[…]Seuerus thus the worthy senatour / Descẽded downe, right heire to Androge{us} / The eldeſt ſoonne of Lud that with the Emperoure / Out of Britayn that went with Iulius / Whiche Senatoure afore ſayd Seuerus / To Britayn came and was intromizate / And with a crowne of golde was coronate.

Word Forms

• coronates
• coronating
• coronated

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Use coronate when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.

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