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Crown


Crown may refer to:

Architecture


- '''Crown''', the highest point of a convex structure, such as an arch or a Vault (architecture)|vault.

Monarchy


- Civic Crown
- Consort crown
- Coronation crown
- Crown (headgear), the headgear worn by a monarch, other high dignitaries, divinities, etc.
- Crown of St. Stephen, Hungary's Holy Crown
- Grass Crown
- Heraldic crown
    - Naval crown
    - Mural crown
- Imperial crown
- State crown
- The Crown, an abstract concept which represents the legal authority for the existence of some (Commonwealth) governments
- Triple Crown, the Papal Tiara

Currency


- Austro-Hungarian krone (so-called because of use of Latin 'corona' on coins)
- British crown coin
- British half crown coin
- Krone
- Krona
- koruna
- Estonian kroon, the currency of Estonia
- Faroese króna, the currency of the Faroe Islands
- Hungarian korona, former currency of Hungary
- Icelandic króna, the currency of Iceland

Education


- Crown College, University of California, Santa Cruz, a residential college
- Crown College (Minnesota), a small private college in St. Bonifacius, Minnesota
- Crown College (Tennessee), an unaccredited school with approximately 900 students
- Crown College (Washington), a small, for-profit, predominantly online college located in Tacoma, Washington.
- S.R. Crown Hall, a building at the Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago, Illinois
- Dundee-Crown High School, a NW Suburban Chicago High School

Music and audio


- ''Crown'', a song from the album Dosage (album)|''Dosage'' by Collective Soul
- Crown, a stevedore-pimp who becomes a murderer in the opera ''Porgy and Bess''.
- Crown International, amplifier and microphone manufacturer founded in 1947
- Crown Records, a number of different record labels
- The Crown (band), a Swedish death/thrash band

Dentistry


- Crown (dentistry), a dental treatment
- Crown (tooth), a portion of a tooth

Science


- Crown (anatomy), the top of the head
- Crown (botany), the branching leaf-bearing portion of a tree
- Crown ether, a family of heterocyclic molecules
    - 18-crown-6, a crown ether formulation
- Crown group, a group of living organisms
- Crown Vetch, a plant

Sport and entertainment


- Crown Limited, an Australian gaming and entertainment company established in 2007
    - Crown Casino, a casino in Melbourne, Australia
    - Crown Macau, a 6-star hotel casino in Macau
    - Crown Las Vegas, a cancelled skyscraper that was to be built on the Las Vegas Strip
- Crown Media, a media production company
- '''The Crown''', the former name of the U.S. Bank Arena in Cincinnati, Ohio

Motor vehicles


- Crown (automobile), an automobile built in Detroit, MI, in 1905
- Crown Coach Corporation, an American school bus manufacturer
- Ford Crown Victoria, a model of Ford car
- Toyota Crown, a model of Toyota car

Literature, theater and movies


- A crown of sonnets is a group of related sonnets
- Crown International Pictures, a film production company
- Crown (comics), an enemy of Spider-Man
- ''Crowns: Portraits of Black Women in Church Hats'', a book of photos by Michael Cunningham and Craig Marberry
- ''Diu Crône'', an Arthurian romance
- ''The Thomas Crown Affair (1968 film)|The Thomas Crown Affair'', a 1968 film about a millionaire who steals a painting
- ''The Thomas Crown Affair (1999 film)|The Thomas Crown Affair'', a 1999 remake of the 1968 film

Places


- Crown, Inverness
- Crown Gardens, Gauteng, a suburb of Johannesburg, South Africa
- Crown Hill (various places)
- Crown North, Gauteng, a suburb of Johannesburg, South Africa
- Crown Point (various places)

Other businesses


- Crown Castle, an American communications company
- Crown Equipment Corporation, a manufacturer of industrial lift trucks
- Crown Financial Ministries, a non-profit financial services entity
- Crown Holdings
- Crown International, part of Harman International Industries
- Crown Publishing Group, a subsidiary of Random House
- Crown Wallpaper, a British wallpaper manufacturer
- Crowne Plaza, an hotel chain
- Crown Paints, a British paint manufaturer

Religion


- Crown of Thorns, in Christianity, the headgear placed on Jesus before his execution
- Crown of Immortality, a literary and religious metaphor appearing in Baroque art.

Other


- '''Crown''', a pint of guinness
- '''Crown''', one proposed additional suit (cards)
- '''Crown''', the highest part of a tunnel
- '''Crown''', the top piece of a fountain
- '''Crown''', the winding knob of a mechanical watch
- Crown glass, the name for high quality glasses used in optics or glazing
- Crown Lager, a beer brewed in Melbourne since 1919
- Crown wheel, a wheel with cogs or teeth set perpendicular to the plane of rotation.
- Lester Crown (born 1926), American businessman
- ''Norwegian Crown'', a cruise ship
- '''''The Crown''''', student newspaper at Redeemer University College

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