Word Meanings - TIARA - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. A form of headdress worn by the ancient Persians. According to Xenophon, the royal tiara was encircled with a diadem, and was high and erect, while those of the people were flexible, or had rims turned over. 2. The pope's triple crown. It was

Additional info about word: TIARA

1. A form of headdress worn by the ancient Persians. According to Xenophon, the royal tiara was encircled with a diadem, and was high and erect, while those of the people were flexible, or had rims turned over. 2. The pope's triple crown. It was at first a round, high cap, but was afterward encompassed with a crown, subsequently with a second, and finally with a third. Fig.: The papal dignity.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of TIARA)

• Diadem
• Crown
• coronet
• coronal
• chaplet
• wreath
• fillet
• tiara
• circlet

Related words: (words related to TIARA)

• CROWN SIDE
  See OFFICE
• CROWNED
  1. Having or wearing a crown; surmounted, invested, or adorned, with a crown, wreath, garland, etc.; honored; rewarded; completed; consummated; perfected. "Crowned with one crest." Shak. "Crowned with conquest." Milton. With surpassing
• CROWNER
  A coroner. (more info) 1. One who, or that which, crowns. Beau. & FL. 2. Etym:
• TIARAED
  Adorned with, or wearing, a tiara.
• CROWNLAND
  In Austria-Hungary, one of the provinces, or largest administrative divisions of the monarchy; as, the crownland of Lower Austria.
• CROWN OFFICE
  The criminal branch of the Court of King's or Queen's Bench, commonly called the crown side of the court, which takes cognizance of all criminal cases. Burrill.
• FILLETING
  The protecting of a joint, as between roof and parapet wall, with mortar, or cement, where flashing is employed in better work. 2. The material of which fillets are made; also, fillets, collectively.
• CROWN-SAW
  A saw in the form of a hollow cylinder, with teeth on the end or edge, and operated by a rotative motion. Note: The trephine was the first of the class of crownsaws. Knight.
• WREATHLESS
  Destitute of a wreath.
• WREATHE
  1. To cause to revolve or writhe; to twist about; to turn. And from so heavy sight his head did wreathe. Spenser. 2. To twist; to convolve; to wind one about another; to entwine. The nods and smiles of recognition into which this singular
• CROWNLESS
  Without a crown.
• WREATH-SHELL
  A marine shell of the genus Turbo. See Turbo.
• CORONAL
  1. A crown; wreath; garland. Spenser. 2. The frontal bone, over which the ancients wore their coronæ or garlands. Hooper.
• CROWN COLONY
  A colony of the British Empire not having an elective magistracy or a parliament, but governed by a chief magistrate appointed by the Crown, with executive councilors nominated by him and not elected by the people.
• DIADEM
  An arch rising from the rim of a crown (rarely also of a coronet), and uniting with others over its center. Diadem lemur. See Indri. -- Diadem spider , the garden spider. (more info) 1. Originally, an ornamental head band or fillet,
• CORONETED
  Wearing, or entitled to wear, a coronet; of noble birth or rank.
• TIARA
  1. A form of headdress worn by the ancient Persians. According to Xenophon, the royal tiara was encircled with a diadem, and was high and erect, while those of the people were flexible, or had rims turned over. 2. The pope's triple crown. It was
• CROWNPIECE
  A piece or part which passes over the head, as in a bridle. A coin See Crown, 19.
• CROWN-POST
  See KING-POST
• CROWNLET
  A coronet. Sir W. Scott.
• UNCROWN
  To deprive of a crown; to take the crown from; hence, to discrown; to dethrone. He hath done me wrong, And therefore I'll uncrown him ere't be long. Shak.
• DISCROWN
  To deprive of a crown. The end had crowned the work; it not unreasonably discrowned the workman. Motley.
• INTERWREATHE
  To weave into a wreath; to intertwine. Lovelace.
• INWREATHE
  Resplendent locks, inwreathed with beams. Milton.
• ENDIADEMED
  Diademed.
• TRIPLE-CROWNED
  Having three crowns; wearing the triple crown, as the pope.