noun. The act or ceremony of crowning a sovereign or the sovereign's consort.

noun. The act or ceremony of investing with a crown, as a sovereign or the consort of a sovereign.

noun. The scene or spectacle of a coronation.

noun. In the Gr. Ch., the sacrament of matrimony; especially, that part of the marriage service which constitutes the nuptials, as distinguished from the preliminary office of betrothal.

noun. The carnation, Dianthus Caryophyllus. See carnation, 3.

noun. The act or solemnity of crowning a sovereign; the act of investing a prince with the insignia of royalty, on his succeeding to the sovereignty.

noun. The pomp or assembly at a coronation.

noun. The act or solemnity of crowning a sovereign; the act of investing a prince with the insignia of royalty, on his succeeding to the sovereignty.

noun. The pomp or assembly at a coronation.

noun. An uncontested party leadership election.

noun. the ceremony of installing a new monarch

"'I hear,' wrote Walpole of what he calls the coronation at Oxford, 'my Lord Westmoreland's own retinue was all be-James'd with true-blue ribands.'"

induction  initiation  installation  

Alsatian  Americanization  Appalachian  Balkanization  Christianization  

accession  baptismal  betrothal  birthday  burial  

accedence  accession  anointing  anointment  appointment