Diadem

Quick meaning: Diadem is a noun meaning An ornamental headband worn as a badge of royalty.

Meaning

An ornamental headband worn as a badge of royalty.

More Meanings

1. A crown.
2. Regal power; sovereignty; empire—considered as symbolized by the crown.
3. (heraldry) An arch rising from the rim of a crown (rarely also of a coronet), and uniting with others over its centre.
4. To adorn with a diadem; to crown.

Example Sentences

The Apollon wing of the Louvre has a set of historic crowns, diadems and sovereign jewellery.

I am his firſt borne ſonne, that vvas the laſt / That vvare the Imperiall Diademe of Rome, […]

The fever’d diadem on my brow / I claim’d and won usurpingly— / Hath not the same fierce heirdom given / Rome to the Caesar—this to me?

butt (maomant scoffin, but apoxyomenously deturbaned but thems bleachin banes will be after making a bashman’s haloday out of the euphorious hagiohygiecynicism of his die and be diademmed).

Word Forms

• diadems
• diademe
• diademming
• diademing
• diademmed
• diademed

Synonyms for diadem

Depending on context, synonyms include crown.

Antonyms for diadem

Common opposites include undiadem.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include crown, tiara, anadem, torsade, cockade, emblema.

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