jewel in the crown
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.63 in modern English
33
Scrabble Score
15
Letters
2
Syllables
11
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "They eventually found each other and forged a powerful doubles partnership. In 1956, they won the French Championships and Wimbledon, the jewel in the crown of a sport that had hardly welcomed them."
- "The 226-year-old auction house ranks behind only Sotheby’s and Christie’s as one of the sector’s major international players, […]. It has stood alongside Chelsea as one of the jewels in the crown of Russian investments in “Londongrad”."
Etymology
The phrase historically referred to India under the British Raj (1858–1947), the rule of the British Crown on the Indian subcontinent.