coronation
nounEtymology
From Late Middle English coronacion, coronacioun (“crowning of a sovereign or his consort; powers conferred by this ceremony; crowning of the Virgin Mary; (figuratively) placing of a crown of thorns on Jesus; act of rewarding a person with eternal life, happiness, honour, etc.”) [and other forms], borrowed from Anglo-Norman coronacion and Old French coronacion, coronation, from Late Latin *corōnātiōnem, from Latin corōnō (“to coronate, crown (with a crown, garland, etc.)”) + -ātiōnem (suffix forming nouns relating to actions or their results). Corōnō is derived from corōna (“garland, wreath; crown”).
- derived from *corōnātiōnem✻
- derived from coronacion
- derived from coronacion
- inherited from coronacion
Definitions
An act of investing with a crown
An act of investing with a crown; a crowning.
- [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.
A completion or culmination of something.
A success in the face of little or no opposition.
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In the game of checkers or draughts
In the game of checkers or draughts: the act of turning a checker into a king when it has reached the farthest row forward.
A town in Alberta, Canada.
A settlement in Mpumalanga province, South Africa.
The neighborhood
- neighborcoronate
- neighborcoronated
- neighborcorona
- neighborcrown
- neighborenthronement
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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA