Crown

Crown names several entities associated with monarchy:

• A crown (headgear), the headgear worn by a monarch.
• The Crown, a term used to separate the government authority and property of the government from the personal influence and private assets held by the current Monarch of a kingdom. Compare Crown colony, Crown land.
• Crowning, a Russian novel.

Crown is also the name of several currencies:

• the British Crown (coin)
• the Czech and Slovak Koruna (crown)
• the Danish krone (crown)
• the Estonian Kroon (crown)
• the Icelandic Króna (crown)
• the Norwegian krone (crown)
• the Swedish Krona (crown)

In first-person shooters, crowning is the act of shooting an opponent in the back of the head with a shotgun, and is considered a grave humiliation.

Other entities and concepts named crown include:

• Crown of the Polish Kingdom, territories of the Kingdom of Poland
• Crown College, one of the residential colleges at the University of California, Santa Cruz
• Crown International , Elkhart, Indiana, tape recorder and amplifier manufacturer.
• Crown Records, a record label
• Crown (anatomy) , the top of the head
• Crown (dentistry), a dental treatment
• Crown (game) , a computer game
• Crown of Thorns
• The Crown (band), is a metal band