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Definition: Crony |
CronyNoun1. A close friend who accompanies his buddies in their activities. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "crony" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1613. (references) |
Note: Crony \Cro"ny\, noun; plural Cronies. [Originally an old woman. See Crone.]. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Literature | Crony A familiar friend. An old crony is an intimate of times gone by. Probably crone with the diminutive ie for endearment, and equivalent to "dear old fellow," "dear old boy." (See Crone.). Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
Slang in 1811 | CRONY. An intimate companion, a comrade; also a confederate in a robbery. Source: 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue. |
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Synonyms: CronySynonyms: brother (n), buddy (n), chum (n), pal (n), sidekick (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Favorite | Noun: favorite, pet, cosset, minion, idol, jewel, spoiled child, enfant gat_; led captain; crony; fondling; apple of one's eye, man after one's own heart; persona grata. |
Friend | Comrade, mate, companion, familiar, confrere, comrade, camarade, confidante, intimate; old crony, crony; chum; pal; buddy, bosom buddy; playfellow, playmate, childhood friend; bedfellow, bedmate; chamber fellow. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Crony |
| English words defined with "crony": Cronies. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "crony": Dawg. (references) |
| Domain | Title |
Books | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit |  | He stopped to visit an old crony of his mother's. Credit: Library of Congress. |
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits. | |||
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Economic History | Slovakia | This process slowed somewhat in the 1994-1998 period due to the crony capitalism and irresponsible fiscal policies of the Meciar government. (references) |
Burma | In the past few years, the ruling generals have turned increasingly towards crony capitalism, rewarding personal friends and family members with preferential treatment. (references) | |
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| "Crony" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 95.65% of the time. "Crony" is used about 23 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) | 95.65% | 22 | 74,468 |
| Noun (proper) | 4.35% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 23 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expression using "crony": old crony. 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 |
crony | 7 |
capitalism crony | 4 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "crony"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | mik (boy, boyfriend, buddy, buddy buddy, chap, friend, friendly, mate, pal). (various references) | |
Arabic | حميم (bosom, chummy, close, familiar, friendly, intimate, near, special, warm), صديقة (babe, pal). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | стар приятел (son of a gun). (various references) | |
Czech | kamarád (boyfriend, buddy, chum, Comrade, fellow, friend, lad, mate, old boy, pal, sport). (various references) | |
Farsi | هم اطاق (Chum), رفیق موافق , دوست صمیمی (Hailfellow). (various references) | |
French | copine, copain. (various references) | |
German | Kumpan (buddy, chum, henchman, mate, pal, side kick, sidekick). (various references) | |
Greek | σύντροφοσ (associate, buddy, chum, companion, consort, fellow, helpmate, helpmeet, mate, pal, partner, sidekick, yokefellow), παλιόφιλοσ (chum). (various references) | |
Hungarian | haver (bucko, buddy, chum, cobber, Dick, dude, matey, pal, sidekick). (various references) | |
Indonesian | sahabat karib, konco (buddy, friend, mate). (various references) | |
Italian | caro amico. (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 茶飲み友" (buddy), 親友 (bosomfriend, buddy, chum, close friend), 旧友 (old friend), 旧友 (old friend). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | きゅうゆう (classmate, old friend), し"ゆう (bosomfriend, buddy, chum, close friend, deep sadness, divine help, great worry, heavenly protection, true courage, true heroism), ちゃのみとも ち (buddy). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | onycray.(various references) | |
Portuguese | amigo íntimo (bosom buddy, cater-cousin, close friend, confidant, confident, sidekick). (various references) | |
Romanian | prieten bun (buddy, cater cousin, chum, Comrade). (various references) | |
Russian | закадычный друг (bosom buddy, bosom friend, bosom-friend, cater cousin, chum, sidekick), близкий (agnate, allied, close, consanguineous, contiguous, familiar, imminent, near, nearby, near-by, nigh). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | smežuran (rugged, rugose, rugous, shrivelled, shrunken, wizened, wrinkled), prisan prijatelj (confidant). (various references) | |
Spanish | amigote. (various references) | |
Swedish | stallbroder (chum, stable companion). (various references) | |
Turkish | yakın arkadaş (alter ego, boon companion, close friend, intimate), kafadar (bud, buddy, buddy buddy), dost (ally, associate, bean, bedfellow, brother, Comrade, connection, connexion, fellow, forthcoming, friend, lover, pal, pard). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | щирий друг. (various references) | |
Vietnamese | bạn nối khố (cater-cousin, cobber), bạn chí thân. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Greek | 700 BCE-300 CE | khronios. (various references) |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | sodalem, sodales, sodalibus, sodalis, sodalium. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "crony": cronyism, cronyisms. (additional references) | |
Words containing "crony": acronym, acronymic, acronymically, acronyms. (additional references) | |
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"Crony" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Caroni, Chron, cokny, congy, Conmy, coony, coreny, cormy, corni, cornye, Coryn, crainy, crany, crawny, crevy, crocy, crohn, cron, croney, cronic, cronie, cronig, Cronk, cront, cronyn, cronz, croonie, Crory, crowy, croxy, croy, crun, crunky, frony, gronky, Groznyy, korny, koruny, krasny, krony, Kroy, Oronya, rony. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "crony" (pronounced krō"nē) |
| 4 | -r ō" n ē | negroni. |
| 3 | -ō" n ē | abalone, baloney, Bologna, boney, bony, Coney, macaroni, mony, pepperoni, phoney, phony, pony, rigatoni, Stoney, stony, Toney, Tony. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: corny. | |
| Words within the letters "c-n-o-r-y" | |
-1 letter: cony, corn, cory. | |
-2 letters: con, cor, coy, cry, nor, orc, roc, yon. | |
-3 letters: no, on, or, oy, yo. | |
| Words containing the letters "c-n-o-r-y" | |
+1 letter: crayon. | |
+2 letters: acronym, canonry, carryon, cornily, country, crayons, cryogen, cryonic, synchro, tyronic. | |
+3 letters: acrimony, acronyms, baryonic, cannonry, carbonyl, carryons, cartoony, caryotin, ceremony, chronaxy, clownery, condylar, contrary, conveyer, conveyor, cornetcy, coronary, corybant, cousinry, crayoned, cronyism, cryogens, cryogeny, cryonics, cryotron, cynosure, deaconry, dormancy, enactory, falconry, hydronic, incisory, monarchy, mordancy, necropsy, nomarchy, normalcy, octonary, reconvey, scroungy, synchros. | |
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