corona

corona is a 6-letter English word with 17 senses as noun in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: A crown or garland bestowed among the Romans as a reward for distinguished services. Face value is 8 in Scrabble and 10 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

6 letters · Scrabble 8 · Words With Friends 10 · 17 senses

Definitions

1. noun. A crown or garland bestowed among the Romans as a reward for distinguished services.
2. noun. The projecting part of a Classic cornice, the under side of which is cut with a recess or channel so as to form a drip. See Illust. of Column.
3. noun. The upper surface of some part, as of a tooth or the skull; a crown.
4. noun. The shelly skeleton of a sea urchin.
5. noun. A peculiar luminous appearance, or aureola, which surrounds the sun, and which is seen only when the sun is totally eclipsed by the moon.
6. noun. An inner appendage to a petal or a corolla, often forming a special cup, as in the daffodil and jonquil.
7. noun. Any crownlike appendage at the top of an organ.
8. noun. A circle, usually colored, seen in peculiar states of the atmosphere around and close to a luminous body, as the sun or moon.
9. noun. A peculiar phase of the aurora borealis, formed by the concentration or convergence of luminous beams around the point in the heavens indicated by the direction of the dipping needle.
10. noun. A crown or circlet suspended from the roof or vaulting of churches, to hold tapers lighted on solemn occasions. It is sometimes formed of double or triple circlets, arranged pyramidically. Called also corona lucis.
11. noun. A character [/] called the pause or hold.
12. noun. a long cigar with blunt ends
13. noun. (anatomy) any structure that resembles a crown in shape
14. noun. the outermost region of the sun's atmosphere; visible as a white halo during a solar eclipse

    Synonyms: aureole

15. noun. one or more circles of light seen around a luminous object
16. noun. an electrical discharge accompanied by ionization of surrounding atmosphere

    Synonyms: corposant

17. noun. (botany) the trumpet-shaped or cup-shaped outgrowth of the corolla of a daffodil or narcissus flower

Synonyms

aureole, corposant

Anagrams

Other playable words that use exactly the letters in corona:

caroon, racoon

Common word forms

coronas, coronation

Words from these letters

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