coronation

noun
/kɒɹəˈneɪʃn̩/UK/ˌkɔɹəˈneɪʃ(ə)n/US

Etymology

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”).

  1. derived from corōnō — “to coronate, crown (with a crown, garland, etc.)
  2. derived from *corōnātiōnem
  3. derived from coronacion
  4. derived from coronacion
  5. inherited from coronacion

Definitions

  1. 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.
  2. A completion or culmination of something.

  3. A success in the face of little or no opposition.

  4. + 3 more definitions
    1. 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.

    2. A town in Alberta, Canada.

    3. A settlement in Mpumalanga province, South Africa.

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