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单词 southern crown
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Southern Crownn.

Brit. /ˌsʌðn ˈkraʊn/, U.S. /ˌsəðərn ˈkraʊn/
Forms: see southern adj. and n.1 and crown n.
Origin: Formed within English, by compounding; modelled on a Latin lexical item. Etymons: southern adj., crown n.
Etymology: < southern adj. + crown n., after post-classical Latin Corona australis (see Corona australis at corona n.1 8). Compare French couronne australe (1583 or earlier). Compare earlier crown n. 11 and also Northern Crown n. Compare also earlier South Crown n.
Astronomy.
The constellation Corona Australis.
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South Crown1556
wheel of Ixion1590
Southern Crown1594
1594 T. Blundeville Exercises iv. xix. f. 222 The Southerne Crowne, called Corona Australis.
1659 J. Moxon Tutor to Astron. & Geogr. 71 The most Southerly Star of the Southern Crown.
?1768–9 Encycl. Brit. (1771) I. 487 The ancient Constellations [include]..Corona Australis, The Southern Crown,..[and] Piscis Australis, The Southern Fish.
1797 S. Vince Compl. Syst. Astron. I. 504 (table) Corona Australis..The Southern Crown.
1881 Frank Leslie's Sunday Mag. 10 199/2 There rose another [constellation]—the Southern Crown, that glorious diadem of light.
1928 Sci. News Let. 22 Dec. 325/1 This nucleus is in the same direction as the constellations of..the Southern Crown, the Altar, the Rule, and the Centaur.
2007 M. D. Heifetz & W. Tirion Walk through Southern Sky (ed. 2) ii. 82 Among the desert nomads of ancient Arabia the circle of stars sometimes called the Southern Crown was called the Ostrich Nest.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2011; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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