crowner
English
Etymology
Middle English
Pronunciation
- Rhymes: -aʊnə(ɹ)
Noun
crowner (plural crowners)
- One who, or that which, crowns.
- Beaumont and Fletcher
- Oh, thou mother of delights, / Crowner of all happy nights, / Star of dear content and pleasure, / Of mutual loves the endless treasure!
- Beaumont and Fletcher
- (obsolete, Britain, Scotland) coroner
- 1602 : William Shakespeare, Hamlet, act V scene 1
- The crowner hath sat on her and finds it Christian burial.
- 1602 : William Shakespeare, Hamlet, act V scene 1
Translations
one who crowns
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Anagrams
- recrown
Middle English
Noun
crowner
- Alternative form of coroner