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Definitions

American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. n. An ugly, withered old woman; a hag.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. n. A feeble and withered old woman: used depreciatively, and sometimes applied, with increased contempt, to a man.
  2. n. An old ewe.

Wiktionary

  1. n. obsolete An old woman.
  2. n. An archetypal figure, a Wise Woman.
  3. n. An ugly, evil-looking, or frightening old woman; a hag.
  4. n. obsolete An old ewe.
  5. n. obsolete An old man, especially one who talks and acts like an old woman.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. n. obsolete An old ewe.
  2. n. An old woman; -- usually in contempt.
  3. n. rare An old man; especially, a man who talks and acts like an old woman.

WordNet 3.0

  1. n. an ugly evil-looking old woman

Etymologies

  1. OD. kronie, karonie, an old sheep, Old French carogne, French charogne, carrion. See carrion and crony. (Wiktionary)
  2. Middle English, from Old North French carogne, carrion, cantankerous woman, from Vulgar Latin *carōnia, carrion, from Latin carō, carn-, flesh; see sker-1 in Indo-European roots. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)

Examples

  • “Kathy found Web sites that claim the title crone hasn't always been derogatory; in pre-Christian times, old women were particularly important members of the community.”

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  • “Mr Green said it was a cross between Huck Finn and Twilight, at which point your humble correspondent Lost the Plot and cackled like a crone from the back row of the Storey Hall.”

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  • “That the crone is Polish must be constructed by the reader as a kind of logical inference: the Polish keep kosher, the crone keeps kosher, therefore the crone is Polish—that is, Orthodox.”

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  • “It's pronounced just like the word crone, being named for the French town Crosne.”

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  • “According to Merriam-Webster's Dictionary the word crone dates back to the fourteenth century and is a Middle English term of abuse.”

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  • “Having an understandably violent reaction to the word crone she looked it up in the dictionary.”

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  • “The crone is the old woman of great power whose life wisdom comes from both her great age and the many things she has lived through.”

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  • “The mother, maiden, and the crone are a pagan concept.”

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  • “Yes, we're sure they were very important members of their society but we bet they didn't like being called a crone any more than we do.”

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  • “Jill slips and calls the crone "mother" leading to a tender second between the two.”

    Too Disgusting to Contemplate, Too Compelling to Ignore

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synonyms (2)

Words with the same meaning

  1. woman
  1. old woman

hypernyms (1)

Words that are more generic or abstract

  1. old woman

same context (7)

Words that are found in similar contexts

  1. hag
  1. gaffer
  1. harridan
  1. beldame
  1. grandmother
  1. geezer
  1. gnome

rhymes (89)

Words with the same terminal sound

  1. Bastogne
  2. Bayonne
  3. Capone
  4. Cohn
  5. Cologne
  6. Dijon
  7. Goan
  8. Joan
  9. Leone
  10. Malone
  11. Mon
  12. Perone
  13. Ramon
  14. Rhone
  15. Scone
  16. Sharon
  17. Simone
  1. Sloan
  2. Stone
  3. Tone
  4. Tyrone
  5. alone
  6. atone
  7. bemoan
  8. blown
  9. bone
  10. bourguignon
  11. bowne
  12. calderon
  13. carone
  14. clone
  15. cologne
  16. condone
  17. cone
  1. cyclone
  2. dethrone
  3. dijon
  4. disown
  5. drone
  6. flintstone
  7. flown
  8. fone
  9. goan
  10. goen
  11. groan
  12. grone
  13. grown
  14. hipbone
  15. homegrown
  16. hone
  17. intone
  1. known
  2. leone
  3. loan
  4. lone
  5. marone
  6. moan
  7. mon
  8. mone
  9. outgrown
  10. outshone
  11. overblown
  12. overgrown
  13. overthrown
  14. own
  15. pavone
  16. perone
  17. phone
  1. postpone
  2. prone
  3. raton
  4. reggaeton
  5. rhone
  6. roan
  7. rone
  8. scone
  9. sewn
  10. shone
  11. shown
  12. sown
  13. stone
  14. throne
  15. thrown
  16. tone
  17. trombone
  1. trone
  2. unbeknown
  3. unknown
  4. zone

reverse dictionary (3)

Words that contain this word in their definition

  1. crony
  1. trot
  1. witch

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  1. pagan
  1. wicca
  1. goddess
  1. woman
  1. female

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