croneとは 意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• (General American) IPA^(key): /kɹoʊn/
• (Received 発音) IPA^(key): /kɹəʊn/
  • 韻: -əʊn
  • Homophone: crosne

名詞

crone (複数形 crones)

1. (archaic) An old woman.

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:old woman

   • 1700, [John] Dryden, “The Wife of Bathe’s Tale. As it was Written by Geffrey Chaucer”, in Fables Ancient and Modern; […], London: […] Jacob Tonson, […], →OCLC:

     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.
   • 2005, J. M. Coetzee, “Six”, in Slow Man, New York: Viking, →ISBN, page 36:

     With black unseeing eyes the old woman, the crone, stares at him and through him. Over and over she mutters a word that he cannot quite catch, something like Toomderoom.

4. (obsolete) An old ewe.
   • 1557 February 13, Thomas Tusser, A Hundreth Good Pointes of Husbandrie., London: […] Richard Tottel, →OCLC; republished London: Reprinted for Robert Triphook, […], and William Sancho, […], 1810, →OCLC:

     In traveling homeward, buy forty good crones, and fat up the bodies of those seely bones

5. (obsolete) An old man, especially one who talks and acts like an old woman.
   • 1822 May 21, Geoffrey Crayon [pseudonym; Washington Irving], “The Haunted House”, in Bracebridge Hall, or The Humourists. A Medley. […], volume II, New York, N.Y.: […] C. S. Van Winkle, […], →OCLC, page 210:

     The old crone [a negro man] lived in a hovel, in the midst of a small patch of potatoes and Indian corn, which his master had given him on setting him free.

   • 1844, Benjamin Disraeli, Coningsby:

     A few old battered crones of office.

Further reading

• Douglas Harper (2001–2023), “crone”, in Online Etymology Dictionary.

アナグラム

• Ceron, Creon, Oncer, necro, necro-, oncer, recon