Crown vs. King — What's the Difference?

A circular ornamental headdress worn by a monarch as a symbol of authority, usually made of or decorated with precious metals and jewels.

King is the title given to a male monarch in a variety of contexts. The female equivalent is queen, which title is also given to the consort of a king.

The top or highest part of something

A male sovereign.

The part of a tooth projecting from the gum

One that is supreme or preeminent in a particular group, category, or sphere

A British coin with a face value of five shillings or 25 pence, now minted only for commemorative purposes.

A man chosen as the winner of a contest or the honorary head of an event

A paper size, 384 × 504 mm.

Abbr. K A playing card bearing the figure of a king, ranking above a queen.

Ceremonially place a crown on the head of (someone) in order to invest them as a monarch

Abbr. K The principal chess piece, which can move one square in any direction and must be protected against checkmate.

Rest on or form the top of

A piece in checkers that has been moved to the last row on the opponent's side of the board and been crowned, thus becoming free to move both forward and backward.

Be the triumphant culmination of (an effort or endeavour, especially a prolonged one)

Kings(used with a sing. verb) See Table at Bible.

Fit a crown to (a tooth)

A king-size bed.

Hit on the head

Principal or chief, as in size or importance.

(of a baby's head during labour) fully appear in the vaginal opening prior to emerging

Of or relating to a king-size bed

An ornamental circlet or head covering, often made of precious metal set with jewels and worn as a symbol of sovereignty.

To make (a piece in checkers) into a king; crown.

The power, position, or empire of a monarch or of a state governed by constitutional monarchy.

A male monarch; a man who heads a monarchy. If it is an absolute monarchy, then he is the supreme ruler of his nation.

The monarch as head of state.

A powerful or majorly influential person.

A distinction or reward for achievement, especially a title signifying championship in a sport.

Something that has a preeminent position.

Something resembling a diadem in shape.

A component of certain games.

A coin stamped with a crown or crowned head on one side.

(chess) The principal chess piece, that players seek to threaten with unavoidable capture to result in a victory by checkmate. It is often the tallest piece, with a symbolic crown with a cross at the top.

Abbr. cr. A silver coin formerly used in Great Britain and worth five shillings.

(card games) A playing card with the letter "K" and the image of a king on it, the thirteenth card in a given suit.

Any one of several coins, such as the koruna, the krona, or the krone, having a name that means “crown.”

A checker (a piece of checkers/draughts) that reached the farthest row forward, thus becoming crowned (either by turning it upside-down, or by stacking another checker on it) and gaining more freedom of movement.

The top or highest part of the head.

The central pin or skittle in bowling games.

The head itself.

A king skin.

The top or upper part of a hat.

A male dragonfly; a drake.

The highest point or summit.

A king-sized bed.

The highest, primary, or most valuable part, attribute, or state

The monarch with the most power and authority in a monarchy, regardless of sex.

The part of a tooth that is covered by enamel and projects beyond the gum line.

(graph theory) A vertex in a directed graph which can reach every other vertex via a path with a length of at most 2.

An artificial substitute for the natural crown of a tooth.

To crown king, to make (a person) king.

(Nautical) The lowest part of an anchor, where the arms are joined to the shank.

To rule over as king.

(Architecture) The highest portion of an arch, including the keystone.

To perform the duties of a king.

The upper, spreading part of a tree or shrub.

To assume or pretend preeminence (over); to lord it over.

The part of a plant, usually at ground level, where the stem and roots merge.

To promote a piece of draughts/checkers that has traversed the board to the opposite side, that piece subsequently being permitted to move backwards as well as forwards.

The persistent, mostly underground base of a perennial herb.

To dress and perform as a drag king.

See corona.

A Chinese musical instrument, consisting of resonant stones or metal plates, arranged according to their tones in a frame of wood, and struck with a hammer.

The crest of an animal, especially of a bird.

A chief ruler; a sovereign; one invested with supreme authority over a nation, country, or tribe, usually by hereditary succession; a monarch; a prince.

The portion of a cut gem above the girdle.

One who, or that which, holds a supreme position or rank; a chief among competitors; as, a railroad king; a money king; the king of the lobby; the king of beasts.

To put a crown or garland on the head of.

A playing card having the picture of a king{1}; as, the king of diamonds.

To invest with regal power; enthrone.

The chief piece in the game of chess.

To confer honor, dignity, or reward upon.

A crowned man in the game of draughts.

To surmount or be the highest part of.

The title of two historical books in the Old Testament.

To form the crown, top, or chief ornament of.

To supply with a king; to make a king of; to raise to royalty.

To bring to completion or successful conclusion; consummate

A male sovereign; ruler of a kingdom

(Dentistry) To put a crown on (a tooth).

A competitor who holds a preeminent position

(Games) To make (a piece in checkers that has reached the last row) into a king by placing another piece upon it.

A very wealthy or powerful businessman;

(Informal) To hit on the head.

Preeminence in a particular category or group or field;

To reach a stage in labor when a large segment of the fetal scalp is visible at the vaginal orifice. Used of a fetus.

United States woman tennis player (born in 1943)

A royal, imperial or princely headdress; a diadem.

United States guitar player and singer of the blues (born in 1925)

A wreath or band for the head, especially one given as reward of victory or a mark of honor.

United States charismatic civil rights leader and Baptist minister who campaigned against the segregation of Blacks (1929-1968)

(by extension) Any reward of victory or mark of honor.

A checker that has been moved to the opponent's first row where it is promoted to a piece that is free to move either forward or backward

Imperial or regal power, or those who wield it.

One of the four playing cards in a deck bearing the picture of a king

(metonym) The sovereign (in a monarchy), as head of state.

(chess) the weakest but the most important piece

The state, the government (headed by a monarch).

The top part of something:

The topmost part of the head.

The highest part of a hill.

The top section of a hat, above the brim.

The raised centre of a road.

The highest part of an arch.

The upper range of facets in a rose diamond.

The dome of a furnace.

The upper part of certain fruits, as the pineapple or strawberry, that is removed before eating.

(architecture) A kind of spire or lantern formed by converging flying buttresses.

Splendor; culmination; acme.

Any currency (originally) issued by the crown (regal power) and often bearing a crown (headdress); (translation) various currencies known by similar names in their native languages, such as the koruna, kruna, krone, korona.

(historical) A former pre-decimalization British coin worth five shillings.

(botany) The part of a plant where the root and stem meet.

(forestry) The top of a tree.

The part of a tooth above the gums.

(dentistry) A prosthetic covering for a tooth.

(nautical) A knot formed in the end of a rope by tucking in the strands to prevent them from unravelling

(nautical) The part of an anchor where the arms and the shank meet

(nautical) The rounding, or rounded part, of the deck from a level line.

(paper) In England, a standard size of printing paper measuring 20 × 15 inches.

(paper) In American, a standard size of writing paper measuring 19 × 15 inches.

(chemistry) A monocyclic ligand having three or more binding sites, capable of holding a guest in a central location

(medical) During childbirth, the appearance of the baby's head from the mother's vagina

(firearms) A rounding or smoothing of the barrel opening

(geometry) The area enclosed between two concentric perimeters.

(religion) A round spot shaved clean on the top of the head, as a mark of the clerical state; the tonsure.

A whole bird with the legs and wings removed to produce a joint of white meat.

A formal hat worn by women to Sunday church services; a church crown.

The knurled knob or dial, on the outside of a watch case, used to wind it or adjust the hands.

Of, related to, or pertaining to a crown.

Of, related to, pertaining to the top of a tree or trees.

To place a crown on the head of.

To formally declare (someone) a king, queen, emperor, etc.

To bestow something upon as a mark of honour, dignity, or recompense; to adorn; to dignify.

To form the topmost or finishing part of; to complete; to consummate; to perfect.

To declare (someone) a winner.

(medicine) Of a baby, during the birthing process; for the surface of the baby's head to appear in the vaginal opening.

(transitive) To cause to round upward; to make anything higher at the middle than at the edges, such as the face of a machine pulley.

To hit on the head.

(video games) To shoot an opponent in the back of the head with a shotgun in a first-person shooter video game.

(board games) In checkers, to stack two checkers to indicate that the piece has become a king.

(firearms) To widen the opening of the barrel.

(military) To effect a lodgment upon, as upon the crest of the glacis, or the summit of the breach.

(nautical) To lay the ends of the strands of (a knot) over and under each other.

(slang) being about to take a poop (usually trying to hold it in, derived from obstetric use: metaphor of "giving birth" to solid poo)

(archaic) crow

A wreath or garland, or any ornamental fillet encircling the head, especially as a reward of victory or mark of honorable distinction; hence, anything given on account of, or obtained by, faithful or successful effort; a reward.

A royal headdress or cap of sovereignty, worn by emperors, kings, princes, etc.

The person entitled to wear a regal or imperial crown; the sovereign; - with the definite article.

Imperial or regal power or dominion; sovereignty.

Anything which imparts beauty, splendor, honor, dignity, or finish.

Highest state; acme; consummation; perfection.

The topmost part of anything; the summit.

The topmost part of the head (see Illust. of Bird.); that part of the head from which the hair descends toward the sides and back; also, the head or brain.

The part of a hat above the brim.

The part of a tooth which projects above the gum; also, the top or grinding surface of a tooth.

The vertex or top of an arch; - applied generally to about one third of the curve, but in a pointed arch to the apex only.

Same as Corona.

That part of an anchor where the arms are joined to the shank.

The upper range of facets in a rose diamond.

The dome of a furnace.

The area inclosed between two concentric perimeters.

A round spot shaved clean on the top of the head, as a mark of the clerical state; the tonsure.

A size of writing paper. See under Paper.

A coin stamped with the image of a crown; hence,a denomination of money; as, the English crown, a silver coin of the value of five shillings sterling, or a little more than $1.20; the Danish or Norwegian crown, a money of account, etc., worth nearly twenty-seven cents.

An ornaments or decoration representing a crown; as, the paper is stamped with a crown.

To cover, decorate, or invest with a crown; hence, to invest with royal dignity and power.

To bestow something upon as a mark of honor, dignity, or recompense; to adorn; to dignify.

To form the topmost or finishing part of; to complete; to consummate; to perfect.

To cause to round upward; to make anything higher at the middle than at the edges, as the face of a machine pulley.

To effect a lodgment upon, as upon the crest of the glacis, or the summit of the breach.

The Crown (or the reigning monarch) as the symbol of the power and authority of a monarchy;

The enamel covered part of a tooth above the gum

A wreath or garland worn on the head to signify victory

An ornamental jewelled headdress signifying sovereignty

The part of a hat (the vertex) covering the crown of the head

An English coin worth 5 shillings

The upper branches and leaves of a tree

The top point of a mountain or hill;

The award given to the champion

The top of the head

The center of a cambered road

Invest with regal power; enthrone;

Be the culminating event;

Form the topmost part of;

Put an enamel cover on;