crowning

[ krou-ning ]

adjective

1. representing a level of surpassing achievement, attainment, etc.; supreme:

   crowning accomplishment.

2. forming or providing a crown, crow, crown, top, or summit:

   a crowning star on a Christmas tree.

crowning

/ ˈkraʊnɪŋ /

noun

1. obstetrics the stage of labour when the infant's head is passing through the vaginal opening

Word History and Origins

Origin of crowning¹

crown + -ing ²

Example Sentences

This championship might well serve as Curry’s crowning achievement.

From FiveThirtyEight

UST, for a few months, was the medium’s crowning success story—and now is its biggest failure.

From Time

Such signals helped reveal the physics of the standard model, a crowning achievement of science that describes the particles and forces of nature.

From Science News

The truncated season could be completed with the crowning of a deserved champion despite the pandemic, but every single element of it would be defined by the pandemic.

From Washington Post

Joe Montana took Kansas City to the playoffs but fell short of a crowning moment.

From Washington Post

Eleventh place is quite the crowning achievement for the little isthmus—especially considering the low quality offerings.

From The Daily Beast

Freak Show, then, by its very name should be his crowning achievement.

From The Daily Beast

He used his signature “big splash” move to beat Hulk Hogan in Wrestlemania VI, crowning him the champion of the WWF.

From The Daily Beast

Which books by other authors do you think are crowning examples of social-observation fiction?

From The Daily Beast

But a few years of retirement brought Washington back to his beloved Mount Vernon, with its year-crowning Christmas cheer.

From The Daily Beast

Hubert, archbishop of Canterbury, made lord chancellor in consideration of his services in crowning king John.

From Project Gutenberg

It may be an idle fancy, but if that string is not a woven strand from some womans crowning glory, then I have no discernment.

From Project Gutenberg

And also the great preparation for the King's crowning is now much thought upon and talked of.

From Project Gutenberg

That crowning distinction seems to have been reserved for the age of Anne and the first sovereigns of the house of Brunswick.

From Project Gutenberg

No modern writer has written more enthusiastically of what he considers the crowning excellence of the Greek philosophy.

From Project Gutenberg