"jewel in the crown" meaning in English

{
  "etymology_text": "The phrase historically referred to India under the British Raj (1858–1947), the rule of the British Crown on the Indian subcontinent.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "jewels in the crown",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "jewels in the crown"
      },
      "expansion": "jewel in the crown (plural jewels in the crown)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2020 August 26, Katharine Q. Seelye, “Angela Buxton, Half of an Outcast Duo in Tennis History, Dies at 85”, in The New York Times",
          "text": "They eventually found each other and forged a powerful doubles partnership. In 1956, they won the French Championships and Wimbledon, the jewel in the crown of a sport that had hardly welcomed them.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2022 March 13, Ben Quinn, “Russian-owned auction house faces boycott by art world figures”, in The Guardian",
          "text": "The 226-year-old auction house ranks behind only Sotheby’s and Christie’s as one of the sector’s major international players, […]. It has stood alongside Chelsea as one of the jewels in the crown of Russian investments in “Londongrad”.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "The most valuable or important thing or person among others of its kind."
      ],
      "id": "en-jewel_in_the_crown-en-noun-p1rXohN2",
      "links": [
        [
          "valuable",
          "valuable"
        ],
        [
          "important",
          "important"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(idiomatic) The most valuable or important thing or person among others of its kind."
      ],
      "related": [
        {
          "word": "crown jewel"
        },
        {
          "word": "crown jewels"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "idiomatic"
      ],
      "translations": [
        {
          "code": "tr",
          "lang": "Turkish",
          "sense": "the most valuable or important thing",
          "word": "baş tacı"
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "jewel in the crown"
}

{
  "etymology_text": "The phrase historically referred to India under the British Raj (1858–1947), the rule of the British Crown on the Indian subcontinent.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "jewels in the crown",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "jewels in the crown"
      },
      "expansion": "jewel in the crown (plural jewels in the crown)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "related": [
    {
      "word": "crown jewel"
    },
    {
      "word": "crown jewels"
    }
  ],
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English countable nouns",
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English idioms",
        "English lemmas",
        "English multiword terms",
        "English nouns",
        "English terms with quotations"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2020 August 26, Katharine Q. Seelye, “Angela Buxton, Half of an Outcast Duo in Tennis History, Dies at 85”, in The New York Times",
          "text": "They eventually found each other and forged a powerful doubles partnership. In 1956, they won the French Championships and Wimbledon, the jewel in the crown of a sport that had hardly welcomed them.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2022 March 13, Ben Quinn, “Russian-owned auction house faces boycott by art world figures”, in The Guardian",
          "text": "The 226-year-old auction house ranks behind only Sotheby’s and Christie’s as one of the sector’s major international players, […]. It has stood alongside Chelsea as one of the jewels in the crown of Russian investments in “Londongrad”.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "The most valuable or important thing or person among others of its kind."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "valuable",
          "valuable"
        ],
        [
          "important",
          "important"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(idiomatic) The most valuable or important thing or person among others of its kind."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "idiomatic"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "translations": [
    {
      "code": "tr",
      "lang": "Turkish",
      "sense": "the most valuable or important thing",
      "word": "baş tacı"
    }
  ],
  "word": "jewel in the crown"
}