red crown
Word Rarity
Uncommon
Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.49 in modern English
14
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
1
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
name
A crown of Ancient Egypt symbolizing control over Lower Egypt.
Example Sentences
- "The figure of the king wearing the Red Crown is uncommon when standing alone; it seldom occurs except in connection with a companion figure wearing the White Crown."
- "Two examples are here quoted, addressed respectively to the White Crown of Upper, and to the Red Crown of Lower Egypt: […] The Red Crown gleams upon thee, O Sobk, that thou mayest be protected."
- "The earliest representation of the Red Crown, traditionally identified with the northern Kingdom is much earlier and is moulded on a pottery sherd recovered from a southern site, Naqada, and quite firmly dated to the Naqada I period, in the middle of the fourth millennium, c.3500 BC."
Etymology
Inflected Forms
the Red Crown (canonical)