croonとは

意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• (英国発音) IPA^(key): /ˈkɹuːn/
• 韻: -uːn

動詞

croon (三人称単数 現在形 croons, 現在分詞 crooning, 過去形および過去分詞形 crooned)

1. (transitive, intransitive) To hum or sing softly or in a sentimental manner.
   • Charlotte Brontë

     hearing such stanzas crooned in her praise

2. (transitive) To soothe by singing softly.
   • Charles Dickens

     The fragment of the childish hymn with which he sung and crooned himself asleep.

3. (Scotland) To make a continuous hollow moan, as cattle do when in pain.

   (Can we find かつ add a quotation of Jamieson to this entry?)

派生語

• crooner

名詞

croon (複数形 croons)

1. A soft or sentimental hum or song.
   • 2012 June 26, Genevieve Koski, “Music: Reviews: Justin Bieber: Believe”, in The Onion AV Club‎^[1]:

     And really, Michael Jackson is a more fitting aspiration for the similarly sexless would-be-former teen heartthrob, who’s compared himself to the late King Of Pop (perhaps a bit prematurely) on several occasions and sings in a Jackson-like croon over a sample of “We’ve Got A Good Thing Going” on Believe’s “Die In Your Arms.”

アナグラム

• Conor, Norco, r'coon