coronation
n. countablen. the official ceremony where a king or queen is crowned and publicly recognized as the ruler.
n. the formal public ceremony in which a monarch is crowned and invested with sovereign authority.
The coronation took place at the cathedral.
Millions watched the coronation on television as the new king received the crown.
The elaborate coronation ritual served to legitimize the new monarch's rule through ancient religious symbolism and public spectacle.
From Late Middle English coronacion, coronacioun (“crowning of a sovereign or his consort; powers conferred by this ceremony; crowning of the Virgin Mary; (figuratively) placing of a crown of thorns on Jesus; act of rewarding a person with eternal life, happiness, honour, etc.”) [and other forms], borrowed from Anglo-Norman coronacion and Old French coronacion, coronation, from Late Latin *corōnātiōnem, from Latin corōnō (“to coronate, crown (with a crown, garland, etc.)”) + -ātiōnem (suffix forming nouns relating to actions or their results). Corōnō is derived from corōna (“garland, wreath; crown”).