crone
pronunciation
How to pronounce crone in British English:
UK [krəʊn]
How to pronounce crone in American English:
US [kroʊn]
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- Noun:
- an ugly evil-looking old woman
Word Origin
- crone
- crone: [14] Crone has a rather macabre history. Essentially it is the same word as carrion. It began life in Latin carō ‘flesh’, which had a Vulgar Latin derivative *carōnia ‘carcass’. In Old Northern French this became carogne, which was applied metaphorically to a withered old woman (English carrion comes from the Anglo-Norman form caroine). Middle Dutch borrowed the word as croonje, applying it additionally to old ewes, and passed it on to English.=> carrion
- crone (n.)
- late 14c., from Anglo-French carogne, from Old North French carogne, term of abuse for a cantankerous or withered woman, literally "carrion," from Vulgar Latin *caronia (see carrion).
Example
- 1. Both mr crone and colin myler , the news of the world 's former editor , are also found to have misled the committee .
- 2. Who is this old crone ? Hey ! Take here away !
- 3. An aged crone a floral apron .
- 4. An old crone . Weak . Withering .
- 5. Both tom crone , then news international 's lawyer , and colin myler , formerly editor of the news of the world , said they told mr murdoch about the e-mail .