crayonとは

意味・読み方・使い方

語源

Borrowed from French crayon (“pencil”), from craie (“chalk”) + -on (“(diminutive)”), from Latin creta (“chalk, clay”), from crētus.

発音

• (英国発音) IPA^(key): /ˈkɹeɪ.ən/, /ˈkɹeɪ.ɒ̃/
  • (米国発音) IPA^(key): /ˈkɹeɪ.ɒn/, [ˈkʰɹeɪ.ɑn]; also /ˈkɹeɪ.ɔn/ (the most common pronunciations, used by 83% of Americans)^[1]
  • (米国発音) enPR: krāʹän
  • (米国発音, まれに, especially Northeastern 米国発音, Midwestern 米国発音) IPA^(key): /ˈkɹæn/, [ˈkɹeən]^[1]
  • (米国発音, まれに, especially Philadelphia, New Jersey, sometimes Southern 米国発音) IPA^(key): /ˈkɹaʊn/, [ˈkɹɛɔn], [ˈkɹæɔn]^[1]
  • 韻: -aʊn

名詞

crayon (複数形 crayons)

1. A stick of colored chalk or wax used for drawing.

   Hyponym: Conté

2. A colored pencil, a colouring pencil

   Synonym: pencil crayon

   • 1695, John Dryden (translator), Observations on the Art of Painting by Charles Alphonse du Fresnoy

     Let no day pass over you […] without giving some strokes of the pencil or the crayon.

3. (dated) A crayon drawing, or a drawing with colored lines.
   • 1885, Littell's Living Age (volume 167, page 187)

     But on the wall hung two fine crayons, representing Louis XVI. and Marie Antoinette — pictures which she recognized as having hung in the corridor of the Tuileries — and in front of them were burning two candles on a species of rude altar.

4. (dated) A pencil of carbon used in producing electric light.
5. (Can we verify⁽⁺⁾ this sense?) (rail transport) An informal map of a proposed rail route.
   • 2020 September 9, Alon Levy, “More on Suburban Circles”, in Pedestrian Observations‎^[1], retrieved 2020-10-16:

     I am not proposing the ring above as a definitive crayon. I’m just mentioning it as something that highlights the difficulties of circumferential public transportation in the suburbs.

関連する語

• cretaceous

動詞

crayon (三人称単数 現在形 crayons, 現在分詞 crayoning または crayonning, 過去形および過去分詞形 crayoned または crayonned)

1. (transitive, intransitive) To draw with a crayon.

Further reading

• crayon on Wikipedia.

参照

• crayon at OneLook Dictionary Search

アナグラム

• acyron