Coronation

Quick meaning: Coronation is a noun meaning (literally, also attributively) An act of investing with a crown; a crowning.

Meaning

(literally, also attributively) An act of investing with a crown; a crowning.

More Meanings

1. A completion or culmination of something.
2. A success in the face of little or no opposition.
3. (board games, rare) In the game of checkers or draughts: the act of turning a checker into a king when it has reached the farthest row forward.

Example Sentences

[A]nd if vvee be Spouſes of this Bridegroom [Jesus], vvee cannot but (as vvee are exhorted) rejoyce in that the marriage of the Lambe is come, and the day of our ovvn coronation vvith an incorruptible Crovvn of glory.

Here, the huffing of Miss Bella and the loss of three of her men at a swoop, aggravated by the coronation of an opponent, led to that young lady's jerking the draught-board and pieces off the table: which her sister went down on her knees to pick up.

Word Forms

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Synonyms for coronation

Depending on context, synonyms include enthronement, enthronization, investiture.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include enthronement, enthronization, investiture, throne, consecration, cope.

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