the crown

noun

1

or the Crown : the government of a country that is officially ruled by a king or queen

the blessing of the Spanish crown

allegiance to the crown

She was appointed by the Crown.

2

: the position of power that a king or queen has

When the king died childless, his brother assumed the crown.

Examples of the crown in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

Goldman Sachs then led a lender takeover, stripping the lot from the real estate giant that had held it out as the crown jewel of its Hollywood portfolio. — Winston Cho, HollywoodReporter, 7 Oct. 2026

Female-pattern hair loss often appears as thinning around the crown of the head or a widening part, while the front hairline generally stays in place, unlike typical male-pattern balding. — Dr. Karen Tang, Washington Post, 5 Oct. 2026

Regardless, the latest Yoga AIO earns an Editors’ Choice award and takes the crown for the best high-end all-in-one Windows desktop. — Michael Justin Allen Sexton, PC Magazine, 4 Oct. 2026

The table furthest to the left (when walking out of the main dining room) is the crown jewel. — Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 29 Sep. 2026

Rhymes for the crown

• adown
• blowdown
• breakdown
• countdown
• crackdown
• crosstown
• downtown
• drawdown
• dropdown
• facedown
• godown
• hometown