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coroa — meaning in English

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English meaning

  • chaplet noun A garland or circlet for the head.
  • corona noun The glowing outer atmosphere of the sun, visible as a bright ring during a total solar eclipse.
  • cougar noun A large wild cat native to the Americas, also called a puma or mountain lion.
  • crone noun An old woman, especially one seen as withered, unpleasant, or witch-like.
  • crown noun An ornamental headpiece worn by a monarch as a symbol of royal power.
  • reverse adj Opposite in position, direction, or order.
  • tail noun The flexible appendage extending from the rear of an animal's body.

Senses

coroa is used for these senses in English:

  • chaplet (Catholicism) A set of repetitive prayers, other than the Rosary, typically prayed with a string of beads.
  • corona The luminous plasma atmosphere of the Sun (the solar corona) or other star, extending millions of kilometres into space, most easily seen during a total solar eclipse.
  • cougar (North America, slang, derogatory) An older woman who actively seeks the casual, often sexual, companionship of younger men, by implication a female “sexual predator”.
  • crone (obsolete) An old man, especially one who talks and acts like an old woman.
  • crown A wreath or band for the head, especially one given as reward of victory or a mark of honor.
  • crown (religion) A round spot shaved clean on the top of the head, as a mark of the clerical state; the tonsure.
  • crown (chemistry) A monocyclic ligand having three or more binding sites, capable of holding a guest in a central location.
  • krone The currency of Iceland, Denmark (including Greenland and the Faroe Islands) and Norway, divided into 100 øre, except in Iceland where 1 króna = 100 aurar.

chaplet — full definition

  1. noun A garland or circlet for the head.
  2. noun A headdress in the form of a wreath made of leaves, flowers or twigs woven into a ring.
  3. noun A string (of beads), especially when making up five decades of the rosary.
  4. noun A set of repetitive prayers, other than the Rosary, typically prayed with a string of beads.

corona — full definition

  1. noun The glowing outer atmosphere of the sun, visible as a bright ring during a total solar eclipse.
  2. noun A ring or halo of light around a bright object, such as the sun or moon.
  3. noun A coronavirus, or informally, COVID-19.

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