Usually means: Sun's outer atmosphere; crown-like.
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General (25 matching dictionaries)
  1. Corona, corona: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. Corona, corona, corona: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. Corona, corona: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. corona: Collins English Dictionary
  5. corona: Vocabulary.com
  6. Corona, corona: Wordnik
  7. corona: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. Corona, corona: Wiktionary
  9. corona: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. corona: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. corona: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. corona: Dictionary.com
  13. corona: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. CORONA (SSTO), CORONA, Corona (LIRR station), Corona (Takemitsu), Corona (band), Corona (beer), Corona (comics), Corona (company), Corona (disambiguation), Corona (fictional world), Corona (footballer), Corona (gastropod), Corona (group), Corona (meteorology), Corona (novel), Corona (optical phenomenon), Corona (perianth), Corona (planetary geology), Corona (plant structure), Corona (restaurant), Corona (satellite), Corona (singer), Corona (soft drink), Corona (software), Corona (software development kit), Corona (solitaire), Corona (song), Corona (surname), Corona (typeface), Corona: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  15. Corona: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  16. corona: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  17. corona: Rhymezone
  18. Corona, Corona, corona: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  19. corona: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  20. Corona: Stammtisch Beau Fleuve Acronyms
  21. corona: Free Dictionary
  22. corona: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. Corona: Dictionary/thesaurus

Art (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Epicurus.com Cigar Glossary (No longer online)
  2. Virginia Tech Multimedia Music Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. Glossary of Stamp Collecting Terms (No longer online)

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Corona (satellite): Legal dictionary

Computing (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Corona: Game Dictionary
  2. corona: Encyclopedia

Medicine (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  3. Corona (of the glans penis), corona: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. CORONA: Acronym Finder
  2. AbbreviationZ (No longer online)

Science (9 matching dictionaries)
  1. corona: Dictionary of Botanical Epithets
  2. From Stargazers to Starships Glossary (No longer online)
  3. Corona: Eric Weisstein's World of Astronomy
  4. Corona: Eric Weisstein's World of Mathematics
  5. Botanical Terms (No longer online)
  6. Imagine the Universe! Dictionary (No longer online)
  7. Corona: Extragalactic Astronomy
  8. corona, corona: Nine Planets Glossary
  9. Flora of New South Wales (No longer online)

Tech (7 matching dictionaries)
  1. High-Energy Astrophysics (No longer online)
  2. AUTOMOTIVE TERMS (No longer online)
  3. Dairy Glossary (No longer online)
  4. Glossary of Meteorology (No longer online)
  5. Lake and Water Word Glossary (No longer online)
  6. National Weather Service Glossary (No longer online)
  7. SOLAR-TERRESTRIAL TERMS (No longer online)

(Note: See coronae as well.)

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noun:  A large, round, pendent chandelier, with spikes around its upper rim to hold candles or lamps, usually hung from the roof of a church.
noun:  (anatomy) An upper or crownlike portion of certain parts of the body.
noun:  A region of the skull located along the coronal suture, at the junction between the frontal bone and the two parietal bones.
noun:  The external (supragingival) portion of the tooth, covered by enamel; the crown.
noun:  The circumference of the base of the glans penis in human males.
noun:  (architecture) The large, flat, projecting member of a cornice which crowns the entablature, situated above the bed moulding and below the cymatium.
noun:  (astronomy)
noun:  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.
noun:  (also geology) An oval-shaped astrogeological feature, present on both the planet Venus and Uranus's moon Miranda, probably formed by upwellings of warm material below the surface.
noun:  (by extension) Any luminous or crownlike ring around an object or person.
noun:  (biology) Any appendage of an organism that resembles a crown or corona (sense 4.1).
noun:  (botany) A ring or set of appendages of adaxial tissue arising from the corolla or the outer edge of the stamens, present in some plants (Narcissus, Passiflora, etc.); a paraperigonium.
noun:  (zoology)
noun:  An annular ciliated organ on the head of rotifers, used for locomotion and sweeping food into the mouth.
noun:  The main body of the test of an echinoid, consisting of ambulacral and interambulacral areas.
noun:  The crown of a crinoid, consisting of a cuplike central body (theca) and a set of arms.
noun:  (virology) A fringe of large, bulbous surface projections on coronaviruses, formed by viral spike peplomers, creating an appearance reminiscent of the solar corona.
noun:  (electricity) A luminous appearance caused by corona discharge, often seen as a bluish glow in the air adjacent to pointed metal conductors carrying high voltages.
noun:  (meteorology) A circle or set of circles visible around a bright celestial object, especially the Sun or the Moon, attributable to an optical phenomenon produced by the diffraction of its light by small water droplets or tiny ice crystals.
noun:  (mineralogy) A mineral zone, consisting of one or more minerals, which surrounds another mineral or lies at the interface of two minerals, typically in a radial arrangement; a reaction rim.
noun:  (pathology) A manifestation of secondary syphilis, consisting of papular lesions along the hairline, often bordering the scalp in the manner of a crown.
noun:  (Ancient Rome, historical) A crown or garland bestowed among the Romans as a reward for distinguished services.
verb:  (transitive, rare) To surround with a luminous or crownlike ring like the solar corona.
noun:  (informal, also attributively) A coronavirus, especially SARS-CoV-2.
noun:  (informal, also attributively) A disease caused by a coronavirus, especially COVID-19.
noun:  (poetry) A series of sonnets linked together such that the last word of each is the first word of the next.
noun:  A long, straight-sided cigar with a blunt, rounded end.
noun:  A place in the United States:
noun:  An unincorporated community in Walker County, Alabama.
noun:  A city in Riverside County, California.
noun:  An unincorporated community in Carlton County, Minnesota.
noun:  An unincorporated community in Oregon County, Missouri.
noun:  A village in Lincoln County, New Mexico.
noun:  A neighborhood of the borough of Queens in New York City, New York.
noun:  A town in Roberts County, South Dakota.
noun:  An unincorporated community in Tipton County, Tennessee, on the Arkansas side of the Mississippi.
noun:  A surname from Spanish.
noun:  A female given name.
noun:  A male given name.
noun:  A pale lager beer produced by Mexican brewery Grupo Modelo, commonly served with a wedge of lime or lemon in the neck of the bottle.
noun:  Alternative letter-case form of corona (“a coronavirus, especially SARS-CoV-2”) [A large, round, pendent chandelier, with spikes around its upper rim to hold candles or lamps, usually hung from the roof of a church.]
noun:  Alternative letter-case form of corona (“a disease caused by a coronavirus, especially COVID-19”) [A large, round, pendent chandelier, with spikes around its upper rim to hold candles or lamps, usually hung from the roof of a church.]
noun:  Alternative letter-case form of corona (“a long, straight-sided cigar with a blunt, rounded end”) [A large, round, pendent chandelier, with spikes around its upper rim to hold candles or lamps, usually hung from the roof of a church.]

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