Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Having or wearing a crown or something like one. Specifically— In botany, provided with a corona.
Wiktionary
- v. To crown a sovereign; to invest a prince with the insignia of royalty, on his succeeding to the sovereignty.
- adj. Having or wearing a crown.
- adj. zoology Having a crest or a crownlike appendage.
- adj. zoology Having the coronal feathers lengthened or otherwise distinguished.
- adj. zoology Girt about the spire with a row of tubercles or spines.
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. Having or wearing a crown.
- adj. Having the coronal feathers lengthened or otherwise distinguished; -- said of birds.
- adj. Girt about the spire with a row of tubercles or spines; -- said of spiral shells.
- adj. (Biol.) Having a crest or a crownlike appendage.
WordNet 3.0
- v. invest with regal power; enthrone.
Etymologies
- From Latin coronatus ("crowned"), past perfect participle of corono ("I crown"), from corona ("crown"). (Wiktionary)
Examples
“It's a well-worn, but perfectly accurate description of the last generation of GOP presidential selection that they 'coronate' more than 'select'.”
“They better pray Joe Kennedy doesn't run because the Kennedy subjects will coronate him Senator.”
“Within four years he managed to dislodge the shah then in place Ahmad Shah Qajar and coronate himself, making his 5-year-old son crown prince.”
“Whether I run or not, "that's not going to coronate anybody.”
The Wall Street Journal: Sheriff Won't Run for Mayor of Chicago
“If a Kennedy runs, they might as well coronate him as soon as he announces.”
“Let's go ahead and coronate Palin the presidential nominee now and throw the constitutionist Republican vote away to the Libertarian Party right now to avoid the rush later on?”
“Especially out in the more independent-minded west, lots of voters don't like the idea of entitled Washington elites trying to coronate primary winners in a race featuring two qualified candidates.”
“Let's forget about the primaries and the national election and go straight to the inauguaration and coronate him as emperor and Michelle as empress.”
Obama backer compares Clinton to 'Fatal Attraction' character
“We would only commission pollsters to do polls and then coronate the man or woman who comes at the top.”
“Skip the primary season and general election process, let's just coronate her?”
Clinton supporters tell her: 'It's an honor, Madame President!'
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘coronate’.
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hats and headgear
Everything hats,things with hoods,hoods,scarves,crowns,useful
adjectival forms,hat expressions,
alternate spellingsbabushka, balaclava, bamoral, baseball cap, beanie, bearskin, beaver hat, beret, billycock, biretta, boater, bobble hat and 422 more...
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kingtaj's Words
lament, dissonant, fontanelle, languor, sallow, dalliance, dolor, iniquity, myrrh, cardamom, balmy, bemusement and 76 more...
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elegant latinate adjectives
verbs that would make good quasi-past-participial, post-positive adjectives
coronate, precipitate, decapitate, emigrate, emaciate, expurgate, integrate, enunciate, propagate
Tweets
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lilydale I would prefer this word as an adjective: "As a king coronate..." May 26, 2009
mollusque Coronates, coronated, and coronating haven't been listed either. You could coroner the market! Feb 12, 2008
gangerh Nice word too. Congratulations King Taj, I hereby crown you King of this entire nation of Coro. Feb 11, 2008
kingtaj Finally, I added a word before anyone else. Coronate me. Feb 11, 2008