crone

See also: Crone

English

Etymology

From Old French carogne, French charogne, carrion. See carrion and crony.

Pronunciation

Noun

crone (plural crones)

  1. (archaic) An old woman.
    • Dryden
      But still the crone was constant to her note.
  2. An archetypal figure, a Wise Woman.
  3. An ugly, evil-looking, or frightening old woman; a hag.
  4. (obsolete) An old ewe.
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  5. (obsolete) An old man, especially one who talks and acts like an old woman.
    • Beaconsfield
      A few old battered crones of office.
    • Washington Irving
      The old crone [a negro man] lived in a hovel […] which his master had given him.

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Anagrams

Middle Dutch

Etymology

From Old Dutch corōna, from Latin corōna. Doublet of crune.

Noun

crône f

  1. crown, wreath

Inflection

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Derived terms

Descendants
  • Dutch: kroon
  • Limburgish: kroean

Further reading
  • “crone”, in Vroegmiddelnederlands Woordenboek, 2000
  • “crone (I)”, in Middelnederlandsch Woordenboek, 1929

Middle English

Noun

crone

  1. Alternative form of crane (“crane”)
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