crown

/kraʊn/

US pronunciation

American sound/kraʊn/

crown

Syllables: 1 syllable
Stress: One strong syllable
Vowel: Short oo vowel
Ending: Clear final sound

US voice -> crown

Myanmar meaning

(n) သရဖူ

Full entry

crown /kraƱn/ n

၁။ (က) [C] သရဖူ။
(ခ) (usu the Crown )[sing] ရှင်ဘုရင်။ ဘုရင်မ။ land owned by the Crown ❍ a minister of the Crown ❍ Who appears for the Crown in this case? (ie Who is bringing the criminal charge against the accused person on behalf of the state?).
(ဂ) the crown [sing] ထီးနန်း။ She refused the crown (ie refused to become queen).
၂။ [C] အောင်ပန်းသရဖူ။ ဦးရစ်ပန်းကုံး။ Christ's crown of thorns ❍ (fig ) two boxers fighting it out for the world heavyweight crown (ie to become CHAMPION).
၃။ (usu the crown ) [sing] ထိပ်။ အထွတ်။ His hair is rather thin on the crown. ❍ the crown of a hill ❍ drive on the crown of the road.
၄။ [C] (က) သွား။ (ခ) သွားတု။ သွား ကွပ်။
၅။ [C] သရဖူပုံ။ A major has a crown on the shoulder of his uniform.
၆။ [C] (ယခင်ဗြိတိသျှ) ငါး သျှီလင်တန် ဒင်္ဂါး။ (ယခု) ၂၅-ပဲနိ။
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၁။ မင်းမြှောက်သည်။ နန်းတင်သည်။ She was crowned (queen) in 1953. ❍ the crowned heads (ie kings and queens) of Europe.
၂။ ~ sth (with sth) (often passive) (က) (rhet ) ဖုံးအုပ်သည်။ လွှမ်းအုပ်သည်။ hills crowned with trees ❍ Beautiful fair hair crowns her head.
(ခ) ပြည့်စုံစေသည်။ တင့်တယ်စေသည်။ The award of this prize has crowned a glorious career. ❍ Their efforts were finally crowned with success.
၃။ (infml ) ခေါင်းကို ရိုက်သည်၊ ထုသည်။ Shut up or I'll crown you.
၄။ (also cap ) သွားကို(ရွှေစသည်)ကွပ်သည်။
❏ crown colony n ဗြိတိသျှအစိုးရ တိုက်ရိုက်အုပ်ချုပ်သည့် ကိုလိုနီ။
❏ Crown Court n (အင်္ဂလန်နှင့်ဝေလ) ရာဇဝတ်တရားရုံး။ Compare COUNTY COURT
❏ crowning adj တင့်တယ်စေသော။ ဂုဏ်ရှိစေသော။ ပြည့်စုံ စေသော။
The performance provided the crowning touch to the evening's entertain- ments. ❍ the crowning moment of her career ဘဝ၏အထွတ်အထိပ်။ ❍ Her crowning glory is her hair.
❏ crown jewels n [pl] သရဖူနှင့် နန်းစဉ်အဆင်တန်ဆာ။
❏ Crown prince n အိမ်ရှေ့မင်းသား။
❏ Crown princess n
၁။ အိမ်ရှေ့မိဖုရား။
၂။ ထီးမွေ နန်းလျာ မင်းသမီး။ အိမ်ရှေ့မင်းသမီး။
❏ to crown it all [IDM ] နောက်ဆုံး အဆိုးဆုံးကတော့၊ အကောင်းဆုံးကတော့။ It was cold and raining, and, to crown it all, we had to walk home.

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Synonyms

circlet, tiara, coronet, acme, adorn, apex, apical, arm, authorize, award, biff, box, brow, cap, chaplet, climax, commission, complete, consummate, coronal, coronate, crest, crowned head, cuff, culmination, delegate, determine, diadem, dignify, dower, enable, endow, endue, ennoble, enthrone, erect, establish, exalt, fastigium, festoon, finish, finish off, fix, fulfill, garland, head, headband, headdress, heighten, highest, hit, honor, inaugurate, induct, install, invest, knock, laurels, meridian, monarch, monarchy, peak, perfect, perfection, pinnacle, potentate, pre-eminent, prize, punch, put finishing touch on, put the finishing touch to, raise, reward, roof, round off, royalty, ruler, sanction, set up, settle, smite, sovereign, sovereignty, stabilize, strengthen, strike, summit, supreme ruler, surmount, terminate, the throne, tip, top, top off, top; best, trophy, ultimate, vertex, wreath, zenith, zenithal

Antonyms

base, begin, bottom, change, confuse, denounce, destroy, disallow, dishonor, disregard, drop, fine, foot, hurt, ignore, initiate, nadir, neglect, prevent, punish, raze, start, stop, unsettle, weaken, worst

Cross references

circlet tiara coronet acme adorn apex apical arm authorize award biff box brow cap chaplet climax commission complete consummate coronal coronate crest crowned head cuff culmination delegate determine diadem