crowner

• IPA^(key): /ˈkɹaʊnə(ɹ)/
• Rhymes: -aʊnə(ɹ)

From Middle English crowner, crownere, equivalent to crown +‎ -er.

crowner (plural crowners)

1. One who, or that which, crowns.
   • 1616–1619 (first performance), John Fletcher, “The Mad Lover”, in Comedies and Tragedies […], London: […] Humphrey Robinson, […], and for Humphrey Moseley […], published 1647, →OCLC, Act V, scene ii:

     Oh, thou mother of delights,
     Crowner of all happy nights,
     Star of dear content and pleasure,
     Of mutual loves the endless treasure!

From Middle English crouner, variant of coroner.

crowner (plural crowners)

2. (obsolete, UK, Scotland) coroner
   • c. 1599–1602 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Hamlet, Prince of Denmarke”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act V, scene i], page 276, column 2:

     I tell thee ſhe is, and therefore make her Grave ſtraight, the Crowner hath ſate on her, and finds it Chriſtian buriall.

• recrown

crowner

1. alternative form of coroner