English
Pronunciation
Noun
crown jewels pl (plural only)
- (literally) The jewelry that accompany the office of rulership in a monarchy, i.e. crown, scepter, signet ring, etc.
The crown jewels in the United Kingdom are heavily guarded and anyone trying to steal them will certainly have a hard time.
- (slang) The male genitalia.
- Synonym: family jewels
The whole crowd cringed as he got kicked in his crown jewels.
Translations
jewelry
- Catalan: joies de la corona f pl
- Czech: korunovační klenoty m pl
- Danish: kronjuveler c pl
- Dutch: kroonjuwelen (nl) n pl
- Finnish: kruununjalokivet pl
- French: joyaux de la couronne (fr) m pl, bijoux de famille (fr) m pl
- Galician: xoias da coroa f pl
- German: Kronjuwelen (de) n pl
- Hungarian: koronaékszerek
- Italian: gioielli della corona m pl
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: kronjuveler m pl
- Polish: klejnoty koronne m pl
- Portuguese: joias da coroa f pl
- Russian: короле́вские рега́лии f pl (korolévskije regálii)
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: крунски драгуљи m pl
- Roman: krunski dragulji m pl
- Spanish: joyas de la corona f pl
- Swedish: kronjuveler (sv) c pl
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See also
Noun
crown jewels
- plural of crown jewel