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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Middle English crone, from Anglo-Norman carogne (compare central Old French charogne (a term of abuse, literally “carrion, carcass, old sheep, hag”), whence modern French charogne). Doublet of carrion.
Pronunciation[edit]
- (General American) IPA(key): /kɹoʊn/
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /kɹəʊn/
Audio (Southern England) (file)
- Rhymes: -əʊn
- Homophone: crosne
Noun[edit]
crone (plural crones)
- (archaic) An old woman.
- Synonyms: see Thesaurus:old woman
- 1700, [John] Dryden, “The Wife of Bathe’s Tale. As it was Written by Geffrey Chaucer”, in Fables Ancient and Modern; […], London: […] Jacob Tonson, […], →OCLC:
- But still the crone was constant to her note.
- An archetypal figure, a Wise Woman.
- An ugly, evil-looking, or frightening old woman; a hag.
- 2005, J. M. Coetzee, “Six”, in Slow Man, New York: Viking, →ISBN, page 36:
- With black unseeing eyes the old woman, the crone, stares at him and through him. Over and over she mutters a word that he cannot quite catch, something like Toomderoom.
- (obsolete) An old ewe.
- 1557 February 13, Thomas Tusser, A Hundreth Good Pointes of Husbandrie., London: […] Richard Tottel, →OCLC; republished London: […] Robert Triphook, […], and William Sancho, […], 1810, →OCLC:
- In traveling homeward, buy forty good crones, and fat up the bodies of those seely bones
- (obsolete) An old man, especially one who talks and acts like an old woman.
- 1822 May 21, Geoffrey Crayon [pseudonym; Washington Irving], “The Haunted House”, in Bracebridge Hall, or The Humourists. A Medley. […], volume II, New York, N.Y.: […] C. S. Van Winkle, […], →OCLC, page 210:
- The old crone [a negro man] lived in a hovel, in the midst of a small patch of potatoes and Indian corn, which his master had given him on setting him free.
- 1844, Benjamin Disraeli, Coningsby:
- A few old battered crones of office.
Translations[edit]
old woman
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archetypal figure
ugly evil-looking or frightening old woman; a hag
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old ewe
old man, especially one who talks and acts like an old woman
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Further reading[edit]
- Douglas Harper (2001–2024) “crone”, in Online Etymology Dictionary.
Anagrams[edit]
Middle Dutch[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Old Dutch corōna, from Latin corōna. Doublet of crune.
Noun[edit]
crône f
Inflection[edit]
This noun needs an inflection-table template.
Derived terms[edit]
Descendants[edit]
Further reading[edit]
- “crone”, in Vroegmiddelnederlands Woordenboek, 2000
- Verwijs, E., Verdam, J. (1885–1929) “crone (I)”, in Middelnederlandsch Woordenboek, The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff, →ISBN, page I
Middle English[edit]
Noun[edit]
crone
- Alternative form of crane (“crane”)
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