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View synonyms for crowning

crowning

[ krou-ning ]

adjective

  1. representing a level of surpassing achievement, attainment, etc.; supreme:

    crowning accomplishment.

  2. forming or providing a crown, crow, crown, top, or summit:

    a crowning star on a Christmas tree.



crowning

/ ˈkraʊnɪŋ /

noun

  1. obstetrics the stage of labour when the infant's head is passing through the vaginal opening


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Eleventh place is quite the crowning achievement for the little isthmus—especially considering the low quality offerings.

Freak Show, then, by its very name should be his crowning achievement.

He used his signature “big splash” move to beat Hulk Hogan in Wrestlemania VI, crowning him the champion of the WWF.

Which books by other authors do you think are crowning examples of social-observation fiction?

But a few years of retirement brought Washington back to his beloved Mount Vernon, with its year-crowning Christmas cheer.

Hubert, archbishop of Canterbury, made lord chancellor in consideration of his services in crowning king John.

It may be an idle fancy, but if that string is not a woven strand from some womans crowning glory, then I have no discernment.

And also the great preparation for the King's crowning is now much thought upon and talked of.

That crowning distinction seems to have been reserved for the age of Anne and the first sovereigns of the house of Brunswick.

No modern writer has written more enthusiastically of what he considers the crowning excellence of the Greek philosophy.

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