Synonyms of the word

crown

• n. A royal, imperial or princely headdress; a diadem.
• n. (heraldry) A representation of such a headdress, as in heraldry; it may even be that only the image exists,…
• n. A wreath or band for the head, especially one given as reward of victory or a mark of honor.
• n. (by extension) Any reward of victory or a mark of honor.
• n. Imperial or regal power, or those who wield it.
• n. (metonymically) The sovereign (in a monarchy), as head of state.
• n. (by extension, especially in law) The state, the government (headed by a monarch).
• n. The topmost part of the head.
• n. The highest part of a hill.
• n. The top section of a hat, above the brim.
• n. The raised centre of a road.
• n. The highest part of an arch.
• n. Splendor; culmination; acme.
• n. Any currency (originally) issued by the crown (regal power) and often bearing a crown (headdress); (translation)…
• n. (historical) A former pre-decimalization British coin worth five shillings.
• n. (botany) The part of a plant where the root and stem meet.
• n. (forestry) The top of a tree.
• n. (anatomy) The part of a tooth above the gums.
• n. (dentistry) A prosthetic covering for a tooth.
• n. (nautical) A knot formed in the end of a rope by tucking in the strands to prevent them from unravelling.
• n. (nautical) The part of an anchor where the arms and the shank meet.
• n. (nautical) The rounding, or rounded part, of the deck from a level line.
• n. (nautical, in the plural) The bights formed by the turns of a cable.
• n. (paper) A standard size of printing paper measuring 20 inches x 15 inches.
• n. (chemistry) A monocyclic ligand having three or more binding sites, capable of holding a guest in a central…
• n. (medicine) During childbirth, the appearance of the baby's head from the mother's vagina.
• n. (firearms) A rounding or smoothing of the barrel opening.
• n. The upper range of facets in a rose diamond.
• n. The dome of a furnace.
• n. (geometry) The area enclosed between two concentric perimeters.
• n. (religion) A round spot shaved clean on the top of the head, as a mark of the clerical state; the tonsure.
• n. A whole turkey with the legs and wings removed to produce a joint of white meat.
• n. (African-American colloquialism) A formal hat worn by women to Sunday church services; elliptical for…
• adj. Of, related to, or pertaining to a crown.
• adj. Of, related to, pertaining to the top of a tree or trees.
• v. To place a crown on the head of.
• v. To formally declare (someone) a king, queen, emperor, etc.
• v. To bestow something upon as a mark of honour, dignity, or recompense; to adorn; to dignify.
• v. To form the topmost or finishing part of; to complete; to consummate; to perfect.
• v. To declare (someone) a winner.
• v. (medicine) Of a baby, during the birthing process; for the surface of the baby's head to appear in the…
• v. (transitive) To cause to round upward; to make anything higher at the middle than at the edges, such as…
• v. To hit on the head.
• v. (video games) To shoot an opponent in the back of the head with a shotgun in a first-person shooter video…
• v. (board games) In checkers, to stack two checkers to indicate that the piece has become a king.
• v. (firearms) To widen the opening of the barrel.
• v. (military) To effect a lodgment upon, as upon the crest of the glacis, or the summit of the breach.
• v. (nautical) To lay the ends of the strands of (a knot) over and under each other.
• v. (obsolete) past participle of crow.

accolade

• n. An expression of approval; praise.
• n. A special acknowledgment; an award.
• n. An embrace of greeting or salutation.
• n. (historical) A salutation marking the conferring of knighthood, consisting of an embrace or a kiss, and…
• n. (music) A brace used to join two or more staves.
• n. (US, military) Written Presidential certificate recognizing service by personnel who died or were wounded…
• n. (architecture) An ornament composed of two ogee curves meeting in the middle, each concave toward its…
• v. (transitive) To embrace or kiss in salutation.
• v. (transitive, historical) To confer a knighthood on.
• v. (transitive) To confer praise or awards on.

acme

• n. The top or highest point; pinnacle; culmination.
• n. (medicine) The crisis or height of a disease.
• n. Mature age; full bloom of life.

apex

• n. The highest point of something.
• n. (figuratively) The moment of greatest success, expansion, etc.
• n. (geometry) The topmost vertex of a cone or pyramid (in their conventional orientation).
• n. (chiefly anatomy) The pointed end of something.
• n. (botany) The end of a leaf, petal or similar organ opposed to the end where it is attached to its support;…
• n. (astronomy) The point on the celestial sphere toward which the sun appears to move relative to nearby…
• n. (physics) The lowest point on a pendant drop of a liquid.
• n. (mining, US) The end or edge of a vein nearest the surface.
• n. (typography) A diacritic in Classical Latin that resembles and gave rise to the acute.
• n. (typography) A diacritic in Middle Vietnamese that indicates /ŋ͡m/.

award

• n. (law) A judgment, sentence, or final decision. Specifically: The decision of arbitrators in a case submitted.
• n. (law) The paper containing the decision of arbitrators; that which is warded.
• n. A trophy or medal; something that denotes an accomplishment, especially in a competition. A prize or honor…
• n. (obsolete) Care, keeping.
• n. (Australia, NZ, industrial relations) A negotiated minimum wage that is set for a particular trade or…
• v. (transitive, law) To give by sentence or judicial determination; to assign or apportion, after careful…
• v. (intransitive) To determine; to make or grant an award.
• v. (transitive) to give an award (prize) for merit.

capitulum

• n. (botany) A densely clustered inflorescence composed of a large number of individual florets arising from…
• n. (arachnology) The head-like mouthpart apparatus of a tick, including the palpi, mandibles, and hypostome.
• n. (anatomy) A small protuberance on a bone which articulates into another bone to form a ball-and-socket…
• n. (entomology, obsolete) The enlarged end of a proboscis.

chaplet

• n. A garland or circlet for the head.
• n. A string of beads, especially when making up five decades of the rosary.
• n. A moulding in the form of a string of beads; a bead-moulding.
• n. A small chapel or shrine.
• n. A bent piece of sheet iron, or a pin with thin plates on its ends, for holding a core in place in the…
• n. Alternative form of chapelet.
• n. A tuft of feathers on a peacock's head.

climax

• n. (originally rhetoric) A rhetorical device in which a series is arranged in ascending order.
• n. (obsolete) An instance of such an ascending series.
• n. (now commonly) A culmination or acme: the last term in an ascending series, particularly.
• v. To reach or bring to a climax.
• v. To orgasm; to reach orgasm.

coin

• n. (money) A piece of currency, usually metallic and in the shape of a disc, but sometimes polygonal, or…
• n. A token used in a special establishment like a casino (also called a chip).
• n. (figuratively) That which serves for payment or recompense.
• n. (uncountable, slang, US, African American Vernacular) money in general, not limited to coins.
• n. One of the suits of minor arcana in tarot, or a card of that suit.
• n. A quoin; a corner or external angle; a wedge.
• n. A small circular slice of food.
• v. To make of a definite fineness, and convert into coins, as a mass of metal; to mint; to manufacture.
• v. To make or fabricate; to invent; to originate.
• v. To acquire rapidly, as money; to make.

coronal

• n. A crown or coronet.
• n. A wreath or garland of flowers.
• n. (obsolete) A variant of colonel.
• n. The frontal bone, over which the ancients wore their coronae or garlands.
• n. (phonetics) A consonant produced with the tip or blade of the tongue.
• adj. relating to a crown or coronation.
• adj. (astronomy) relating to the corona of a star.
• adj. (botany) relating to the corona of a flower.
• adj. (phonetics) relating to a sound made with the tip or blade of the tongue.
• adj. (anatomy) a "coronal plane" or a "coronal section" divides a body into dorsal (back) and ventral (front).

coronate

• v. To crown a sovereign.
• adj. Having or wearing a crown.
• adj. (zoology) Having a crest or a crownlike appendage.
• adj. (zoology) Having the coronal feathers lengthened or otherwise distinguished.
• adj. (zoology, of a spiral shell) Girt about the spire with a row of tubercles or spines.

cover

• n. A lid.
• n. A hiding from view.
• n. A front and back of a book, magazine, CD package, etc.
• n. A top sheet of a bed.
• n. A cover charge.
• n. A setting at a restaurant table or formal dinner.
• n. (music) A rerecording of a previously recorded song; a cover version; a cover song.
• n. (cricket) A fielding position on the off side, between point and mid off, about 30° forward of square;…
• n. (topology) A set (more often known as a family) of sets, whose union contains the given set.
• n. (philately) An envelope complete with stamps and postmarks etc.
• n. (military) A solid object, including terrain, that provides protection from enemy fire.
• n. (law) In commercial law, a buyer’s purchase on the open market of goods similar or identical to the goods…
• n. (insurance) An insurance contract; coverage by an insurance contract.
• n. (espionage) A persona maintained by a spy or undercover operative, cover story.
• n. The portion of a slate, tile, or shingle that is hidden by the overlap of the course above.
• n. In a steam engine, the lap of a slide valve.
• adj. Of or pertaining to the front cover of a book or magazine.
• adj. (music) Of, pertaining to, or consisting of cover versions.
• v. (transitive) To place something over or upon, as to conceal or protect.
• v. (transitive) To be over or upon, as to conceal or protect.
• v. (transitive) To be upon all of, so as to completely conceal.
• v. (transitive) To set upon all of, so as to completely conceal.
• v. (transitive) To invest (oneself with something); to bring upon (oneself).
• v. (of a publication) To discuss thoroughly; to provide coverage of.
• v. To deal with.
• v. To be enough money for.
• v. (intransitive) To act as a replacement.
• v. (transitive) To have as an assignment or responsibility.
• v. (music) To make a cover version of (a song that was originally recorded by another artist).
• v. (military, law enforcement) To protect using an aimed firearm and the threat of firing; or to protect…
• v. To provide insurance coverage for.
• v. To copulate with (said of certain male animals such as dogs and horses).
• v. (chess, transitive) To protect or control (a piece or square).
• v. To extend over a given period of time or range, to occupy, to stretch over a given area.

crest

• n. A tuft, or other excrescence or natural ornament, growing on an animal's head; the comb of a cock; the…
• n. The plume of feathers, or other decoration, worn on or displayed on a helmet; the distinctive ornament…
• n. (heraldry): A bearing worn, not upon the shield, but usually on a helmet above it, sometimes (as for clerics)…
• n. The upper curve of a horse's neck.
• n. The ridge or top of a wave.
• n. The summit of a hill or mountain ridge.
• n. The helm or head, as typical of a high spirit; pride; courage.
• n. The ornamental finishing which surmounts the ridge of a roof, canopy, etc.
• n. The top line of a slope or embankment.
• n. A design or logo, especially one of an institution, association or high-class family.
• n. Any of several birds in the family Regulidae, including the goldcrests and firecrests.
• v. Particularly with reference to waves, to reach a peak.
• v. To furnish with, or surmount as, a crest; to serve as a crest for.
• v. To mark with lines or streaks like waving plumes.

culminate

• v. (intransitive, astronomy) Of a heavenly body, to be at the highest point, reach its greatest altitude.
• v. (intransitive) To reach the (physical) summit, highest point, peak etc.
• v. (intransitive) To reach a climax; to come to the decisive point (especially as an end or conclusion).
• v. (transitive) To finalize, bring to a conclusion, form the climax of.

diadem

• n. An ornamental headband worn as a badge of royalty.
• n. A crown.
• n. Regal power; sovereignty; empire—considered as symbolized by the crown.
• n. (heraldry) An arch rising from the rim of a crown (rarely also of a coronet), and uniting with others…
• v. To adorn with a diadem; to crown.

enthrone

• v. (transitive) To put on the throne in a formal installation ceremony called enthronement, equivalent to…
• v. (transitive, figuratively) To help a candidate to the succession of a monarchy (as a kingmaker does),…

garland

• n. A wreath, especially one of plaited flowers or leaves, worn on the body or draped as a decoration.
• n. An accolade or mark of honour.
• n. (mining) A metal gutter placed round a mineshaft on the inside, to catch water running down inside the…
• n. The crown of a monarch.
• n. (dated) A book of extracts in prose or poetry; an anthology.
• n. The top; the thing most prized.
• n. (nautical) A sort of netted bag used by sailors to keep provisions in.
• n. (nautical) A grommet or ring of rope lashed to a spar for convenience in handling.
• v. (transitive) To deck or ornament something with a garland.
• v. (transitive) To form something into a garland.

head

• n. (countable) The part of the body of an animal or human which contains the brain, mouth, and main sense…
• n. (countable) The topmost, foremost, or leading part.
• n. (social, countable) A leader or expert.
• n. A significant or important part.
• n. Headway; progress.
• n. Topic; subject.
• n. (uncountable) Denouement; crisis.
• n. (fluid dynamics) Pressure and energy.
• n. (slang, uncountable) Fellatio or cunnilingus; oral sex.
• n. (slang) The glans penis.
• n. (slang, countable) A heavy or habitual user of illicit drugs.
• n. (obsolete) Power; armed force.
• adj. Of, relating to, or intended for the head.
• adj. Foremost in rank or importance.
• adj. Placed at the top or the front.
• adj. Coming from in front.
• v. (transitive) To be in command of. (See also head up.).
• v. (transitive) To strike with the head; as in soccer, to head the ball.
• v. (intransitive) To move in a specified direction.
• v. (fishing) To remove the head from a fish.
• v. (intransitive) To originate; to spring; to have its course, as a river.
• v. (intransitive) To form a head.
• v. To form a head to; to fit or furnish with a head.
• v. To cut off the top of; to lop off.
• v. (obsolete) To behead; to decapitate.
• v. To go in front of; to get in the front of, so as to hinder or stop; to oppose; hence, to check or restrain.
• v. To set on the head.

honor

• n. (uncountable) Recognition of importance or value; respect; veneration (of someone, usually for being morally…
• n. (uncountable) The state of being morally upright, honest, noble, virtuous, and magnanimous; excellence…
• n. (countable) A token of praise or respect; something that represents praiseworthiness or respect, such…
• n. A privilege.
• n. (in the plural) The privilege of going first.
• n. A cause of respect and fame; a glory; an excellency; an ornament.
• n. (feudal law) A seigniory or lordship held of the king, on which other lordships and manors depended.
• n. (heraldry, countable) The center point of the upper half of an armorial escutcheon. (Compare honour point…
• n. (countable, card games) In bridge, an ace, king, queen, jack, or ten especially of the trump suit. In…
• n. (in the plural) (Courses for) an honours degree: a university qualification of the highest rank.
• v. (transitive) To think of highly, to respect highly; to show respect for; to recognise the importance or…
• v. (transitive) To conform to, abide by, act in accordance with (an agreement, treaty, promise, request,…
• v. (transitive) To confer (bestow) an honour or privilege upon (someone).
• v. (transitive) To make payment in respect of (a cheque, banker's draft etc).

honour

• n. British spelling, Canadian, and Irish, Australian, NZ, and South African standard spelling of honor.
• v. British spelling, Canadian, and Irish, Australian, NZ, and South African standard spelling of honor.

invest

• v. To spend money, time, or energy on something, especially for some benefit or purpose; used with in.
• v. (dated) To clothe or wrap (with garments).
• v. (obsolete) To put on (clothing).
• v. To envelop, wrap, cover.
• v. To commit money or capital in the hope of financial gain.
• v. To ceremonially install someone in some office.
• v. To formally give (someone) some power or authority.
• v. To formally give (power or authority).
• v. To surround, accompany, or attend.
• v. To lay siege to.
• v. (intransitive) To make investments.
• v. (metallurgy) To prepare for lost wax casting by creating an investment mold (a mixture of a silica sand…
• n. (meteorology) An unnamed tropical weather pattern "to investigate" for development into a significant…

laurels

• n. plural of laurel.
• n. Honors. From the Ancient Greek practice of crowning victors with a branch from the laurel bush, sacred…

lei

• n. A garland of flowers in Hawaii.
• n. plural of leu.

pate

• n. (somewhat archaic) The head, particularly the top or crown.
• n. (archaic) Wit, cleverness, cognitive abilities.
• n. Alternative spelling of pâté (finely-ground paste of meat, fish, etc.).
• n. The interior body, or non-rind portion of cheese, described by its texture, density, and color.

peak

• n. A point; the sharp end or top of anything that terminates in a point; as, the peak, or front, of a cap.
• n. The highest value reached by some quantity in a time period.
• n. (geography) The top, or one of the tops, of a hill, mountain, or range, ending in a point.
• n. (geography) The whole hill or mountain, especially when isolated.
• n. (nautical) The upper aftermost corner of a fore-and-aft sail.
• n. (nautical) The narrow part of a vessel's bow, or the hold within it.
• n. (nautical) The extremity of an anchor fluke; the bill.
• n. (mathematics) A local maximum of a function, e.g. for sine waves, each point at which the value of y is…
• v. To reach a highest degree or maximum.
• v. To rise or extend into a peak or point; to form, or appear as, a peak.
• v. (intransitive) To become sick or wan.
• v. (intransitive) To acquire sharpness of figure or features; hence, to look thin or sickly.
• v. (intransitive) To pry; to peep slyly.
• v. Misspelling of pique.

pennant

• n. A flag normally used by naval vessels to represent a special condition.
• n. (sports) The winning of a competition, represented by a flag.
• n. A rope or strap to which a purchase is hooked.

place

• n. (physical) An area; somewhere within an area.
• n. A location or position in space.
• n. A particular location in a book or document, particularly the current location of a reader.
• n. (obsolete) A passage or extract from a book or document.
• n. (obsolete, rhetoric) A topic.
• n. A frame of mind.
• n. (chess, obsolete) A chess position; a square of the chessboard.
• n. (social) A responsibility or position in an organization.
• n. (obsolete) A fortified position: a fortress, citadel, or walled town.
• n. Numerically, the column counting a certain quantity.
• n. Ordinal relation; position in the order of proceeding.
• n. Reception; effect; implying the making room for.
• v. (transitive) To put (an object or person) in a specific location.
• v. (intransitive) To earn a given spot in a competition.
• v. (transitive) To remember where and when (an object or person) has been previously encountered.
• v. (transitive, passive) To achieve (a certain position, often followed by an ordinal) as in a horse race.
• v. (transitive) To sing (a note) with the correct pitch.
• v. (transitive) To arrange for or to make (a bet).
• v. (transitive) To recruit or match an appropriate person for a job.
• v. (sports, transitive) To place-kick (a goal).

poll

• n. A survey of people, usually statistically analyzed to gauge wider public opinion.
• n. A formal election.
• n. A polling place (usually as plural, polling places).
• n. (now obsolete outside veterinary contexts) The head, particularly the scalp or pate upon which hair (normally)…
• n. (in extended senses of the above) A mass of people, a mob or muster, considered as a head count.
• n. The broad or butt end of an axe or a hammer.
• n. The pollard or European chub, a kind of fish.
• v. (transitive) To take, record the votes of (an electorate).
• v. (transitive) To solicit mock votes from (a person or group).
• v. (intransitive) To vote at an election.
• v. To register or deposit, as a vote; to elicit or call forth, as votes or voters.
• v. To cut off; to remove by clipping, shearing, etc.; to mow or crop.
• v. (transitive) To cut the hair of (a creature).
• v. (transitive) To remove the horns of (an animal).
• v. To remove the top or end of; to clip; to lop.
• v. (transitive, computing, communication) To (repeatedly) request the status of something (such as a computer…
• v. (intransitive, with adverb) To be judged in a poll.
• v. (obsolete) To extort from; to plunder; to strip.
• v. To impose a tax upon.
• v. To pay as one's personal tax.
• v. To enter, as polls or persons, in a list or register; to enroll, especially for purposes of taxation;…
• v. (law) To cut or shave smooth or even; to cut in a straight line without indentation.
• adj. (of kinds of livestock which typically have horns) Bred without horns, and thus hornless.
• n. A pet parrot.
• n. (Britain, dated, Cambridge University slang) One who does not try for honors at university, but is content…

spot

• n. A round or irregular patch on the surface of a thing having a different color, texture etc. and generally…
• n. A stain or disfiguring mark.
• n. A pimple, papule or pustule.
• n. A small, unspecified amount or quantity.
• n. (slang, US) A bill of five-dollar or ten-dollar denomination in dollars.
• n. A location or area.
• n. A parking space.
• n. (sports) An official determination of placement.
• n. A bright lamp; a spotlight.
• n. (US, advertising) A brief advertisement or program segment on television.
• n. Difficult situation; predicament.
• n. (gymnastics, dance, weightlifting) One who spots (supports or assists a maneuver, or is prepared to assist…
• n. (soccer) Penalty spot.
• n. The act of spotting or noticing something.
• n. A variety of the common domestic pigeon, so called from a spot on its head just above the beak.
• n. A food fish (Leiostomus xanthurus) of the Atlantic coast of the United States, with a black spot behind…
• n. The southern redfish, or red horse (Sciaenops ocellatus), which has a spot on each side at the base of…
• n. (in the plural, brokers' slang, dated) Commodities, such as merchandise and cotton, sold for immediate…
• n. An autosoliton.
• n. (finance) A decimal point; point.
• v. (transitive) To see, find; to pick out, notice, locate, distinguish or identify.
• v. (finance) To loan a small amount of money to someone.
• v. (transitive, intransitive) To stain; to leave a spot (on).
• v. To remove, or attempt to remove, a stain.
• v. (gymnastics, dance, weightlifting, climbing) To support or assist a maneuver, or to be prepared to assist…
• v. (dance) To keep the head and eyes pointing in a single direction while turning.
• v. To stain; to blemish; to taint; to disgrace; to tarnish, as reputation.
• v. To cut or chip (timber) in preparation for hewing.
• v. To place an object at a location indicated by a spot. Notably in billiards or snooker.
• adj. (commerce) Available on the spot; on hand for immediate payment or delivery.

summit

• n. (countable) A peak; the top of a mountain.
• n. (countable) A gathering or assembly of leaders.
• v. (transitive, hiking, climbing, colloquial) To reach the summit of a mountain.

symbol

• n. A character or glyph representing an idea, concept or object.
• n. Any object, typically material, which is meant to represent another (usually abstract) even if there is…
• n. (linguistics) A type of noun whereby the form refers to the same entity independently of the context;…
• n. A summary of a dogmatic statement of faith.
• n. Visible traces or impressions, made using a writing device or tool, that are connected together and/or…
• n. (crystallography) The numerical expression which defines a plane's position relative to the assumed axes.
• n. That which is thrown into a common fund; hence, an appointed or accustomed duty.
• n. Share; allotment.
• v. To symbolize.

tip

• n. The extreme end of something, especially when pointed; e.g. the sharp end of a pencil.
• n. A piece of metal, fabric or other material used to cover the top of something for protection, utility…
• n. (music) The end of a bow of a stringed instrument that is not held.
• n. (chiefly in the plural) A small piece of meat.
• n. A piece of stiffened lining pasted on the inside of a hat crown.
• n. A thin, boarded brush made of camel's hair, used by gilders in lifting gold leaf.
• v. (transitive) To provide with a tip; to cover the tip of.
• v. (ergative) (To cause) to knock over, make fall down or overturn.
• v. (ergative) (To cause) to be, or come to be, in a tilted or sloping position; (to cause) to become unbalanced.
• v. (transitive, slang, dated) To drink.
• v. (transitive) To dump (refuse).
• v. (US, transitive) To pour a libation, particularly from a forty of malt liquor.
• v. (transitive) To deflect with one′s fingers, especially one′s fingertips.
• n. (skittles, obsolete) The knocking over of a skittle.
• n. An act of tipping up or tilting.
• n. (Britain, Australia, New Zealand) An area or a place for dumping something, such as rubbish or refuse,…
• n. (Britain, Australia, New Zealand) Rubbish thrown from a quarry.
• n. (Britain, Australia, New Zealand, by extension) A recycling centre.
• n. (colloquial) A very untidy place.
• n. The act of deflecting with one's fingers, especially the fingertips.
• v. (now rare) To hit quickly and lightly; to tap.
• n. (now rare) A light blow or tap.
• v. To give a small gratuity to, especially to an employee of someone who provides a service.
• v. (thieves′ slang) To give, pass.
• n. A gratuity; a small amount of money left for a bartender, waiter, taxi driver or other servant as a token…
• n. A piece of private or secret information, especially imparted by someone with expert knowledge about sporting…
• n. A piece of advice.
• v. To give a piece of private information to; to inform (someone) of a clue, secret knowledge, etc.
• n. (African American Vernacular) A kick or phase; one's current habits or behaviour.
• n. (African American Vernacular) A particular arena or sphere of interest; a front.

top

• n. The highest part or component of an object.
• n. A child’s spinning toy; a spinning top.
• n. (heading) Someone who is eminent.
• n. (BDSM) A dominant partner in a BDSM relationship or roleplay.
• n. (LGBT, slang) A man penetrating or with a preference for penetrating during homosexual intercourse.
• n. (physics) A top quark.
• n. The utmost degree; the acme; the summit.
• n. (ropemaking) A plug, or conical block of wood, with longitudinal grooves on its surface, in which the…
• n. (sound) Highest pitch or loudest.
• n. (wool manufacture) A bundle or ball of slivers of combed wool, from which the noils, or dust, have been…
• n. (obsolete, except in one sense of phrase on top of) Eve; verge; point.
• n. The part of a cut gem between the girdle, or circumference, and the table, or flat upper surface.
• n. (in the plural, slang, dated) Topboots.
• n. (golf) A stroke on the top of the ball.
• n. (golf) A forward spin given to the ball by hitting it on or near the top.
• n. (in restaurants, preceded by a number) (A table at which there is, or which has enough seats for) a group…
• v. To cover on the top or with a top.
• v. To cut or remove the top (as of a tree).
• v. To excel, to surpass, to beat.
• v. To be in the lead, to be at number one position (of).
• v. (Britain, slang) To commit suicide, (rare) to murder.
• v. (BDSM) To be the dominant partner in a BDSM relationship or roleplay.
• v. (slang, gay sexuality) To be the partner who penetrates in anal sex.
• v. (archaic) To rise aloft; to be eminent; to tower.
• v. (archaic) To predominate.
• v. (archaic) To excel; to rise above others.
• v. (nautical) To raise one end of (a yard, etc.), making it higher than the other.
• v. (dyeing) To cover with another dye.
• v. To put a stiffening piece or back on (a saw blade).
• v. (slang, dated) To arrange (fruit, etc.) with the best on top.
• v. (of a horse) To strike the top of (an obstacle) with the hind feet while jumping, so as to gain new impetus.
• v. To improve (domestic animals, especially sheep) by crossing certain individuals or breeds with other superior…
• v. To cut, break, or otherwise take off the top of (a steel ingot) to remove unsound metal.
• v. (golf) To strike (the ball) above the centre; also, to make (a stroke, etc.) by hitting the ball in this…
• adj. Situated on the top of something.
• adj. (informal) Best; of the highest quality or rank.
• adj. (informal) Very good, of high quality.
• adv. Rated first.

treetop

• n. The crown or uppermost branches of a tree.

upside

• n. the highest or uppermost side or portion of something.
• n. a favourable aspect of something that also has an unfavourable aspect.
• n. an upward tendency, especially in a financial market etc.
• prep. (informal) On the top of.

vertex

• n. The highest point of something.
• n. (anatomy) The highest surface on the skull.
• n. (geometry) The common point of the two rays of the angle, or its equivalent structure in polyhedra (meeting…
• n. (mathematics) A point on the curve with a local minimum or maximum of curvature.
• n. (graph theory) One of the elements of a graph joined or not by edges to other vertices.
• n. (computer graphics) A point in 3D space, usually given in terms of its Cartesian coordinates.
• n. (optics) The point where the surface of a lens crosses the optical axis.
• n. (nuclear or particle physics) An interaction point.
• n. (astrology) The point where the prime vertical meets the ecliptic in the western hemisphere of a natal…

vest

• n. (now rare) A loose robe or outer garment worn historically by men in Arab or Middle Eastern countries.
• n. (now Canada, US) A sleeveless garment that buttons down the front, worn over a shirt, and often as part…
• n. (Britain) A sleeveless garment, often with a low-cut neck, usually worn under a shirt or blouse.
• n. A sleeveless top, typically with identifying colours or logos, worn by an athlete or member of a sports…
• n. Any sleeveless outer garment, often for a purpose such as identification, safety, or storage.
• n. A vestment.
• n. Clothing generally; array; garb.
• v. To clothe with, or as with, a vestment, or garment; to dress; to robe; to cover, surround, or encompass…
• v. To clothe with authority, power, etc.; to put in possession; to invest; to furnish; to endow; followed…
• v. To place or give into the possession or discretion of some person or authority; to commit to another;…
• v. (obsolete) To invest; to put.
• v. (law) To clothe with possession; also, to give a person an immediate fixed right of present or future…
• v. (commonly used of financial arrangements) To become vested, to become permanent.

wreath

• n. Something twisted, intertwined, or curled.
• n. An ornamental circular band made, for example, of plaited flowers and leaves, and used as decoration;…
• n. (heraldry) An appendage to the shield, placed above it, and supporting the crest; an orle, a torse. It…
• v. To place an entwined circle of flowers upon or around something.
• v. (transitive) To wrap around something in a circle.
• v. (intransitive) To curl, writhe or spiral in the form of a wreath.