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Definition: Crone |
CroneNoun1. An ugly evil-looking old woman. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "crone" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1380. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Literature | Crone properly speaking, means a ewe whose teeth are worn out; but metaphorically it means any toothless old beldam. (Irish, criona, old; allied to the Greek geron, an old man.) "Take up the bastard; take `t up, I say; give `t to thy crone." - Shakespeare: Winter's Tale, ii. 3. Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
Slang in 1811 | CRONE. An old ewe whose teeth are worn out; figuratively, a toothless old beldam. Source: 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Synonyms: CroneSynonyms: beldam (n), beldame (n), hag (n), witch (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Fool | Dotard, driveler; old fogey, old woman, crock; crone, grandmother; cotquean, henhussy. |
Veteran | Noun: veteran, old man, seer, patriarch, graybeard; grandfather, grandsire; grandam; gaffer, gammer; crone; pantaloon; sexagenarian, octogenarian, nonagenarian, centenarian; old stager; dotard. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Crone |
| Etymologies containing "crone": Crony. (references) |
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| "Crone" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 75.00% of the time. "Crone" is used about 48 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 75% | 36 | 57,479 |
| Noun (proper) | 22.92% | 11 | 106,044 |
| Lexical Verb (base form) | 2.08% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 48 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following table summarizes the usage of "crone" based on a population census conducted in the United States. Ranks and frequencies are based on all names reported and classified. |
| Name | Usage/Gender | Usage per 100 million Persons | Rank in USA |
| Crone | Last name | 1,000 | 8,843 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits. | |||
Expression using "crone": old crone. Additional references. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
crone | 67 |
crone disease | 15 |
maiden mother crone | 9 |
crone gill | 6 |
art crone | 5 |
crone neil | 5 |
crone pygott | 5 |
crone hume | 5 |
crone penny | 4 |
old crone | 4 |
crone de maladie | 4 |
crone norm | 3 |
corkill crone | 3 |
crone patricia | 3 |
crone goddess | 3 |
crone ritual | 3 |
crone lifestyle | 2 |
corkhill crone | 2 |
crone maid mother stage woman | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "crone"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | plakë e rrudhur. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | حيزبون, عجوز شمطاء (beldame, hag). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | старуха. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | babizna (hag, harridan), èarodìjnice (hag, witch). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | gammelt moderfår (broken-mouthed ewe). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | oude ooi (broken-mouthed ewe). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | vanha uuhi (broken-mouthed ewe). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | vieille femme, vieille brebis, vieille bique. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | altes weib (hag). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | παλιόγρια, παλαιά προβατίνα (broken-mouthed ewe). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | vénasszony, pletykás vénasszony, banya (frump, harridan, witch), öreg juh. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | vecchiaccia (Beldam, beldame), pecora vecchia (broken-mouthed ewe). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | shenn ven (ancestress, old woman). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | onecray ovelha velha (broken-mouthed ewe). (various references) cotoroanţã (harridan), zgripţuroaicã (grimalkin, hag, termagant, vixen), babetã (old woman), babã (old woman, squaw, wife). (various references) старуха (gammer, old woman, trot). (various references) smežurana baba. (various references) oveja vieja (broken-mouthed ewe), bruja (Beldam, bitch, hag, harridan, hex, night-hag, Randy, sorceress, witch, wizard). (various references) kärring, gammeltacka (broken-mouthed ewe), gammal häxa (harridan). (various references) yaşlı kadın (Dame, gammer, Goody, grandam), kocakarı (Beldam, beldame, frump, gammer, hag, harridan, old woman). (various references) стара карга (harridan), стара вівця. (various references) b gi con cừu gi . (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "crone": crones. (additional references) | |
Words containing "crone": mucrones. (additional references) | |
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"Crone" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Caroni, cbone, Cercone, cerene, cerone, Cerrone, ceruna, chone, Chonwe, Chron, chrone, Cione, Cirene, conne, Corna, corne, Cornejo, corni, cornu, cornye, cranee, crano, crena, crenna, creno, crhone, crine, Crna, crobe, croce, crode, croe, crohn, crohns, croin, croke, Crole, crome, Cromek, cron, croned, croner, croney, cronie, cronig, Cronk, crons, cront, cronum, cronz, croonee, croonie, crose, crosned, crote, crowe, crowne, Croze, crun, Crunden, crune, cruner, crunge, cryne, curone, frone, grone, Korone, kronar, Krondel, pcprobe, rone, ronne, scrone, shrone, wrone. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "crone" (pronounced krō"n) |
| 3 | -r ō" n | dethrone, drone, groan, grown, homegrown, outgrown, overgrown, overthrown, prone, roan, throne, thrown, trone. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: recon. | |
| Words within the letters "c-e-n-o-r" | |
-1 letter: cero, cone, core, corn, once. | |
-2 letters: con, cor, eon, ern, nor, one, orc, ore, rec, roc, roe. | |
-3 letters: en, er, ne, no, oe, on, or, re. | |
| Words containing the letters "c-e-n-o-r" | |
+1 letter: censor, cloner, coiner, confer, conger, conker, conner, cornea, corned, cornel, corner, cornet, crepon, crones, encore, orcein, reckon, recoin, recons. | |
+2 letters: acrogen, bicorne, bouncer, censors, chevron, chorine, cloners, coarsen, coenure, coenuri, coiners, coinfer, cointer, concern, concert, confers, congers, conifer, conjure, conkers, conners, conquer, convert, coreign, corneae, corneal, corneas, cornels, corners, cornets, cornfed, cornice, cornier, cornute, coronae, coronel, coroner, coronet, corvine, counter, cozener, crepons, crocein, crocine, cronies, crooned, crooner, crowned, crowner, crownet, crunode, cryogen, decrown, dorneck, enactor, encoder, encored, encores, enforce, frounce, incomer, knocker, narcose, necrose, notcher, noticer, oneiric, orceins, porcine, pouncer, reckons, recoins, recount, recrown, romance, scorned, scorner, trounce, uncover. | |
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| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Usage: Commercial | 5. Usage Frequency 6. Names: Frequency 7. Expressions 8. Expressions: Internet | 9. Translations: Modern 10. Derivations 11. Rhymes 12. Anagrams | 13. Bibliography |
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