Crowned

How to spell crowned

7 letters · 1 syllable

How to pronounce crowned

What does crowned mean?

1. verbPast tense of crown: to have formally placed a crown on someone, making them a monarch.
2. adjectiveHaving something placed on top, or fitted with a dental crown.

Crowned in a sentence

• verb

  The young queen was crowned in a ceremony watched by millions.

• adjective

  The hill was crowned with an old stone tower.

• verb

  He was crowned king only weeks after his father died.

• adjective

  The dentist said the cracked molar would need to be crowned.

Where does crowned come from?

Language of origin: Latin

This is the past form of the verb 'crown', which traces back to the Latin corona, meaning a 'wreath' or 'garland', the circular band of leaves or metal worn on the head. The Romans used corona for the honorary wreath given to victors and for the diadem of a ruler, and that sense of a ceremonial circlet carried the word forward. It reached English through Old French corone in the medieval period, and by the 1200s the verb 'crown' was in use for the act of placing a crown on a monarch's head. The same corona root survives in the modern English word 'coronation' and in the astronomical 'corona' of the sun, which is named for its halo-like ring. The spelling keeps the familiar 'ow' of the noun before the regular -ed ending, so the trap is mostly remembering that single straightforward 'crown' plus 'ed' rather than anything irregular.

How the word is built

• crown (royal headpiece, from Latin corona)
• -ed (past tense / past participle suffix)