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Contents 1 Symbols of monarchy or rank 2 Sports 3 Currency 4 Places 5 Education 6 Arts 6.1 Literature, theater, movies 6.2 Music and audio 7 Science 8 Dentistry 9 Religion 10 Businesses 11 Motor vehicles 12 Other 13 See also

A crown is a term referring to a part of the head or of a hat, or to a head ornament or type of headgear for the highest rank in a socio-political hierarchy. It is etymologically related to the cognate currency units Krone and Krona.

• Crown, ceremonial headgear

• Tiara, a type of crown

[edit] Symbols of monarchy or rank

• Ancient Egypt:

• Hedjet
• Deshret
• Pschent

• Ancient Rome:

• Civic Crown
• Grass Crown
• Naval crown

• Mural crown
• Consort crown
• Heraldic crown
• Imperial crown
• Coronation crown
• Commonwealth realms:

• The Crown, the legal embodiment of Executive Government in Commonwealth countries
• State crown (primarily British but may be applied to other monarchies)

• Crown of St. Stephen, Hungary's Holy Crown
• Papal Tiara or Triple Tiara, the papal crown

[edit] Sports

• Triple Crown, a series of three major events that establishes dominance in a particular sport; see for list in various sports

[edit] Currency

• British crown coin
• British half crown coin
• Czechoslovak koruna, former Czechoslovakia
• Czech koruna, Czech Republic
• Danish krone, Denmark
• Estonian kroon, Estonia
• Faroese króna, Faroe Islands
• Hungarian korona, Hungary
• Icelandic króna, Iceland
• Slovak koruna, Slovakia
• Swedish krona, Sweden

[edit] 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)

[edit] 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.

[edit] Arts

[edit] Literature, theater, movies

• A crown of sonnets is a group of related sonnets
• Crown (comics), an enemy of Spider-Man
• Diu Crône, an Arthurian romance

[edit] Music and audio

• The Crown (band), a Swedish death/thrash band

[edit] 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
• Crown group, a group of living organisms
• Crown vetch, a plant

[edit] Dentistry

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

[edit] Religion

• Sahasrara, the crown chakra in Hindu tradition
• 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.
• Tree of Life, The concept of a many-branched tree illustrating the idea that all life on earth is related.
• Keter, is the topmost of the Sephirot of the Tree of Life in Kabbalah

[edit] 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, a packaging products company
• Crown Hotel, a grade-I-listed 16th-century inn
• Crown International, amplifier and microphone manufacturer founded in 1947
• Crown International Pictures, a film production company
• Crown Limited, an Australian gaming and entertainment company established in 2007
• Crown Media, a media production company
• Crowne Plaza, a hotel chain
• Crown Paints, a British paint manufaturer
• Crown Publishing Group, a subsidiary of Random House
• Crown Records, a number of different record labels
• Crown Wallpaper, a British wallpaper manufacturer
• Crown Worldwide Group, a relocation company based in Hong Kong

[edit] Motor vehicles

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

[edit] Other

• crowned, as in the winner of a beauty pageant
• Crown glass, the name for high quality glasses used in optics or glazing
• Crown Lager, a beer brewed in Melbourne since 1919
• Lester Crown (born 1926), American businessman
• Norwegian Crown, a cruise ship
• Norwegian Crown,The Norwegian currency

[edit] See also

• Corona and Corona (disambiguation)
• Hat, especially

• Parts of a hat
• Hat styles

• Headgear
• List of hats and headgear
• Horned helmet
• Heraldry: Helm and crest

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