coronation
An act of investing with a crown; a crowning.
Other meanings
An act or the ceremony of formally investing a sovereign or the sovereign's consort with a crown and other insignia of royalty, on or shortly after their accession to the sovereignty.
A completion or culmination of something.
Related words
- recoronation
- coronational
- coronation chicken
- Coronation Gulf
- Coronation Island
- coronation quiche
- coronation sauce
- coronation trifle
- decoronation
- precoronation
Word history
From Anglo-Norman "coronacion".
Where this comes from
This definition is adapted from “coronation” on Wiktionary, by its contributors, published under CC BY-SA 4.0. This page is published under the same licence.