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coronate

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Scrabble points
10
Words With Friends
12
Letters
8
Pronunciation
/ˈkɒɹəˌneɪt/(UK)
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/ˈkɒɹəˌneɪt/(UK) · /ˈkɔɹəˌneɪt/(US) · /ˈkɒɹənət/(UK) · /ˈkɔɹənɪt/(US)

Definition of coronate

5 senses · 2 parts of speech · etymology included

verb

  1. (rare)To crown (a sovereign or champion).
    “[…] and instead of Coronating your deserved Worth […]”
    “The whole field of literature has freely surrendered its classic gems to coronate him the intellectual king.”
    “Tribals defy custom, bow to queen - Great Andamanese gear up to coronate first woman”
    “2023, USA Today On a soggy London day in June 1953, a bright-eyed 27-year-old married mother named Elizabeth was coronated as queen of England.”
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verb

  1. (rare)To crown (a sovereign or champion).
    “[…] and instead of Coronating your deserved Worth […]”
    “The whole field of literature has freely surrendered its classic gems to coronate him the intellectual king.”
    “Tribals defy custom, bow to queen - Great Andamanese gear up to coronate first woman”
    “2023, USA Today On a soggy London day in June 1953, a bright-eyed 27-year-old married mother named Elizabeth was coronated as queen of England.”

adj

  1. (not-comparable)Having a crest or a crownlike appendage, a corona.
  2. (not-comparable)Having the coronal feathers lengthened or otherwise distinguished.
  3. (not-comparable)Girt about the spire with a row of tubercles or spines.
  4. (not-comparable, obsolete)Having or wearing a crown, crowned; (as a participle) crowned, coronated.
    “The duke of Normandy / William conquerour […] Was coronate at London / […]”

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Etymology

First attested in 1623; borrowed from Latin corōnātus (“crowned”), perfect passive participle of corōnō (“to crown”) (see -ate (verb-forming suffix)), from corōna (“crown”) + -ō.

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