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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Crown \Crown\ (kroun), verb (used with an object) [imp. & p. p. {Crowned} (kround); p. pr. & vb. n. {Crowning}.] [OE. coronen, corunen, crunien, crounien, OF. coroner, F. couronner, fr. L. coronare, fr. corona a crown. See {Crown}, noun]
1. To cover, decorate, or invest with a crown; hence, to invest with royal dignity and power.
Her who fairest does appear, Crown her queen of all the year. --Dryden.
Crown him, and say, ''Long live our emperor.'' --Shak.
2. To bestow something upon as a mark of honor, dignity, or recompense; to adorn; to dignify.
Thou . . . hast crowned him with glory and honor. --Ps. viii. 5.
3. To form the topmost or finishing part of; to complete; to consummate; to perfect.
Amidst the grove that crowns yon tufted hill. --Byron.
One day shall crown the alliance. --Shak.
To crown the whole, came a proposition. --Motley.
4. (Mech.) To cause to round upward; to make anything higher at the middle than at the edges, as the face of a machine pulley.
5. (Mil.) To effect a lodgment upon, as upon the crest of the glacis, or the summit of the breach.
{To crown a knot} (Naut.), to lay the ends of the strands over and under each other.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
crowning
adjective
1: representing a level of the highest possible achievement or attainment; "the crowning accomplishment of his career" [syn: {crowning(a)}]
2: forming or providing a crown or summit; "the crowning star on a Christmas tree"; "her hair was her crowning glory"
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
63 Moby Thesaurus words for "crowning": arch, banner, capital, capping, cardinal, central, champion, chief, closing, completing, completive, completory, concluding, conclusive, consummating, consummative, consummatory, culminating, culminative, dominant, ending, final, finalizing, finishing, first, focal, foremost, fulfilling, great, heading, headmost, hegemonic, last, leading, magisterial, main, master, outtopping, overruling, overtopping, paramount, perfecting, perfective, predominant, preeminent, preponderant, prevailing, primal, primary, prime, principal, ranking, ruling, sovereign, star, stellar, supereminent, terminal, terminating, terminative, topflight, topping, ultimate
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