'Crescent' definitions:
Definition of 'crescent'
From: WordNet
adjective
noun
Any shape resembling the curved shape of the moon in its first or last quarters
Definition of 'Crescent'
From: GCIDE
- Crescent \Cres"cent\ (kr[e^]s"sent), n. [OE. cressent, cressaunt, crescent (in sense 1), OF. creissant increasing, F. croissant, p. pr. of cro[^i]tre, OF. creistre, fr. L. crescere to increase, v. incho.; akin to creare to create. See Create, and cf. Accrue, Increase, Crescendo.]
- 1. The increasing moon; the moon in her first quarter, or when defined by a concave and a convex edge; also, applied improperly to the old or decreasing moon in a like state. [1913 Webster]
- 2. Anything having the shape of a crescent or new moon. [1913 Webster]
- 3. A representation of the increasing moon, often used as an emblem or badge; as: (a) A symbol of Artemis, or Diana. (b) The ancient symbol of Byzantium or Constantinople. Hence: (c) The emblem of the Turkish Empire, adopted after the taking of Constantinople. [1913 Webster]
- The cross of our faith is replanted, The pale, dying crescent is daunted. --Campbell. [1913 Webster]
- 4. Any one of three orders of knighthood; the first instituted by Charles I., king of Naples and Sicily, in
- 1268; the second by Ren['e] of Anjou, in 1448; and the third by the Sultan Selim III., in 1801, to be conferred upon foreigners to whom Turkey might be indebted for valuable services. --Brande & C. [1913 Webster]
- 5. (Her.) The emblem of the increasing moon with horns directed upward, when used in a coat of arms; -- often used as a mark of cadency to distinguish a second son and his descendants. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Crescent'
From: GCIDE
- Crescent \Cres"cent\, v. t.
- 1. To form into a crescent, or something resembling a crescent. [R.] --Anna Seward. [1913 Webster]
- 2. To adorn with crescents. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Crescent'
From: GCIDE
- Crescent \Cres"cent\ (kr[e^]s"sent), a.
- 1. Shaped like a crescent. [1913 Webster]
- Astarte, queen of heaven, with crescent horns. --Milton. [1913 Webster]
- 2. Increasing; growing. [1913 Webster]
- O, I see the crescent promise of my spirit hath not set. --Tennyson. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'crescent'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- achievement,
- alerion,
- alley,
- alleyway,
- animal charge,
- annulet,
- argent,
- armorial bearings,
- armory,
- arms,
- arterial,
- arterial highway,
- arterial street,
- artery,
- artificial satellite,
- Autobahn,
- autoroute,
- autostrada,
- avenue,
- azure,
- bandeau,
- bar,
- bar sinister,
- baton,
- bearings,
- belt highway,
- bend,
- bend sinister,
- biconcave,
- bicorn,
- billet,
- blazon,
- blazonry,
- blind alley,
- blooming,
- blossoming,
- bordure,
- boulevard,
- broad arrow,
- budding,
- burgeoning,
- bypass,
- byway,
- cadency mark,
- camino real,
- canton,
- carriageway,
- causeway,
- causey,
- chaplet,
- charge,
- chaussee,
- chevron,
- chief,
- circle,
- circumferential,
- circus,
- close,
- coat of arms,
- cockatrice,
- corduroy road,
- corniform,
- coronet,
- county road,
- court,
- crescendoing,
- crescent moon,
- crescent-shaped,
- crescentic,
- crescentiform,
- crescentlike,
- crest,
- cross,
- cross moline,
- crown,
- cul-de-sac,
- Cynthian,
- dead-end street,
- decrescent,
- decrescent moon,
- demilune,
- developed,
- device,
- difference,
- differencing,
- dike,
- dirt road,
- drive,
- driveway,
- eagle,
- ermine,
- ermines,
- erminites,
- erminois,
- escutcheon,
- expanding,
- expressway,
- falcate,
- falciform,
- falcon,
- fess,
- fess point,
- field,
- file,
- flanch,
- fleur-de-lis,
- florescent,
- flourishing,
- flowering,
- freeway,
- fret,
- full moon,
- full-fledged,
- full-grown,
- fully developed,
- fur,
- fusil,
- garland,
- gibbous moon,
- gravel road,
- griffin,
- growing,
- grown,
- grown-up,
- gules,
- gyron,
- half circle,
- half-moon,
- harvest moon,
- hatchment,
- helmet,
- hemicycle,
- heraldic device,
- highroad,
- highway,
- highways and byways,
- honor point,
- horn-shaped,
- horned,
- horseshoe,
- hypertrophied,
- impalement,
- impaling,
- increasing,
- incremental,
- increscent,
- increscent moon,
- inescutcheon,
- intensifying,
- interstate highway,
- label,
- lane,
- lengthening,
- lion,
- local road,
- lozenge,
- lunar,
- lunate,
- lunette,
- luniform,
- lunula,
- lunular,
- lunule,
- main drag,
- main road,
- mantling,
- marshaling,
- martlet,
- mascle,
- mature,
- menisciform,
- meniscoid,
- meniscus,
- metal,
- mews,
- moon,
- moon-shaped,
- moonlike,
- motorway,
- motto,
- mullet,
- multiplying,
- new moon,
- nombril point,
- octofoil,
- on the increase,
- or,
- orb of night,
- ordinary,
- orle,
- overdeveloped,
- overgrown,
- pale,
- paly,
- parkway,
- pave,
- paved road,
- pean,
- pheon,
- pike,
- place,
- plank road,
- primary highway,
- private road,
- proliferating,
- purpure,
- quadrant,
- quarter,
- quartering,
- queen of heaven,
- queen of night,
- right-of-way,
- ring road,
- road,
- roadbed,
- roadway,
- rose,
- route nationale,
- row,
- royal road,
- S-shaped,
- sable,
- saltire,
- satellite,
- scutcheon,
- scythe,
- secondary road,
- sector,
- semicircle,
- semicircular,
- semilunar,
- sextant,
- shield,
- sickle,
- sickle-like,
- sickle-shaped,
- sigmoid,
- silvery moon,
- snowballing,
- speedway,
- spread eagle,
- spreading,
- sprouting,
- state highway,
- street,
- subordinary,
- superhighway,
- swelling,
- tenne,
- terrace,
- the wandering Moon,
- thoroughfare,
- thriving,
- through street,
- thruway,
- tightening,
- tincture,
- toll road,
- torse,
- township road,
- tressure,
- turnpike,
- two-horned,
- unicorn,
- US highway,
- vair,
- vert,
- waning crescent moon,
- waning moon,
- waxing,
- waxing crescent moon,
- waxing moon,
- wet moon,
- wreath,
- wynd,
- yale
Crescent, OK -- U.S. city in Oklahoma
From: Gazetteer 2000
Name :
Crescent, OK -- U.S. city in Oklahoma
Population (2000) :
1281
Housing Units (2000) :
639
Land area (2000) :
1.062028 sq. miles (2.750640 sq. km)
Water area (2000) :
0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km)
Total area (2000) :
1.062028 sq. miles (2.750640 sq. km)
FIPS code :
18250
Located within :
Oklahoma (OK), FIPS 40
Location :
35.953137 N, 97.594593 W
ZIP Codes (1990) :
73028
Note :
some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
Crescent, IA -- U.S. city in Iowa
From: Gazetteer 2000
Name :
Crescent, IA -- U.S. city in Iowa
Population (2000) :
537
Housing Units (2000) :
195
Land area (2000) :
1.257763 sq. miles (3.257592 sq. km)
Water area (2000) :
0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km)
Total area (2000) :
1.257763 sq. miles (3.257592 sq. km)
FIPS code :
17175
Located within :
Iowa (IA), FIPS 19
Location :
41.363656 N, 95.858789 W
ZIP Codes (1990) :
51526
Note :
some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
Words containing 'Crescent'
- Crescentic,
- Crescent Beach,
- Crescent City,
- Crescent Mills,
- Crescent Springs,
- Crescent spot,
- Crescent, IA,
- Crescent, OK,
- La Crescent,
- almond crescent,
- crescent roll,
- crescent wrench,
- fertile crescent,
- pearl crescent,
- Crescent Beach, FL,
- Crescent City North,
- Crescent City, CA,
- Crescent City, FL,
- Crescent City, IL,
- Crescent Mills, CA,
- Crescent Springs, KY,
- La Crescent, MN,
- crescent-shaped,
- Crescent City North, CA,
- crescent-cell anaemia,
- crescent-cell anemia