Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

coronate

/ˈkɔɹəˌneɪt/

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.23 in modern English

Syllables: coro-nate
IPA: /ˈkɔɹəˌneɪt/

10

Scrabble Score

8

Letters

2

Syllables

7

Unique Chars

Meaning

verb

To crown (a sovereign or champion).

adj

Having a crest or a crownlike appendage, a corona.

adj

Having the coronal feathers lengthened or otherwise distinguished.

adj

Girt about the spire with a row of tubercles or spines.

adj

(as a participial adjective) Having or wearing a crown, crowned; (as a participle) crowned, coronated.

Obsolete

Example Sentences

"[…] 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."
"The duke of Normandy / William conquerour […] Was coronate at London / […]"
"Maryus his ſoonne was then intronizate / And ſette on high in trone of maieſtie / With croune of golde full royally coronate / As worthy was vnto his royalte / Who nouriſhed was at Rome in his inuente / With his mothers kynne the beest of the empire / With Claudius also, that was his oune graũdsir[…]Seuerus thus the worthy senatour / Descẽded downe, right heire to Androge{us} / The eldeſt ſoonne of Lud that with the Emperoure / Out of Britayn that went with Iulius / Whiche Senatoure afore ſayd Seuerus / To Britayn came and was intromizate / And with a crowne of golde was coronate."

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.

Origin

Source language: Middle English
First known use: First attested in 1623

Word Breakdown

Root: coronat, corōnātus

Regional Pronunciation

American English: /ˈkɔɹəˌneɪt/
British English: /ˈkɒɹəˌneɪt/

Usage

Obsolete

Inflected Forms

coronates (present, singular) coronating (participle, present) coronated (participle, past) coronated (past) coronated (alternative)

Derived Forms

decoronate recoronate amphicoronate semicoronate

Frequently Paired Words

coronation corona crown incoronate

Synonyms

crown

Questions

How do you pronounce coronate?: The recorded pronunciation is /ˈkɔɹəˌneɪt/.
What does coronate mean?: To crown (a sovereign or champion).
Where does coronate come from?: It is traced to Middle English. First known use: First attested in 1623.

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