Crowning meaning : To place a crown on the head of. To formally declare (someone) a king, queen, emperor, etc. To bestow something upon as a mark of honour, dignity, or recompense; to adorn; to dignify. To form the topmost or finishing part of; to complete; to consummate; to perfect. To declare (someone) a winner. Of a baby, during the birthing process; for the surface of the baby's head to appear in the vaginal opening. To cause to round upward; to make anything higher at the middle than at the edges, such as the face of a machine pulley. To hit on the head. To shoot an opponent in the back of the head with a shotgun in a first-person shooter video game. In checkers, to stack two checkers to indicate that the piece has become a king. To widen the opening of the barrel. To effect a lodgment upon, as upon the crest of the glacis, or the summit of the breach. To lay the ends of the strands of (a knot) over and under each other. Supreme; of a surpassing quality or quantity.