About  |  Kamus SABDA Mobile
Table of Contents -- crone
POS
WORDNET DICTIONARY
CIDE DICTIONARY
OXFORD DICTIONARY
THESAURUS
ROGET THESAURUS
Link, Gadget and Share
Copy the code below to your site:
Link
Gadget
Share
 Facebook
 Twitter
Add to your browser

crone

 : 
Noun

WORDNET DICTIONARY

Noun crone has 1 sense

CIDE DICTIONARY

cronen. [OD. kronie, karonie, an old sheep, OF. carogne, F. charogne, carrion (also F. carogne ill-natured woman.). See Carrion, and Crony.].
  •  An old ewe.  Tusser.  [1913 Webster]
  •  An old woman; -- usually in contempt.  [1913 Webster]
    "But still the crone was constant to her note."  [1913 Webster]
  •  An old man; especially, a man who talks and acts like an old woman.  [1913 Webster]
    "The old crone [a negro man] lived in a hovel, . . . which his master had given him."  [1913 Webster]
    "A few old battered crones of office."  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

crone, n.
1 a withered old woman.
2 an old ewe.

Etymology
ME, ult. f. ONF carogne CARRION

THESAURUS

crone

bag, bat, beldam, biddy, dame, dowager, drab, frump, grandam, grandmother, granny, hag, old battle-ax, old dame, old girl, old granny, old lady, old trot, old wife, old woman, slattern, sloven, trot, war-horse, witch

ROGET THESAURUS

crone

Veteran

N veteran, old man, seer, patriarch, graybeard, grandfather, grandsire, grandam, gaffer, gammer, crone, pantaloon, sexagenarian, octogenarian, nonagenarian, centenarian, old stager, dotard, preadamite, Methuselah, Nestor, old Parr, elders, forefathers, superfluous lags the veteran on the stage.

Fool

N fool, idiot, tomfool, wiseacre, simpleton, witling, dizzard, donkey, ass, ninny, ninnyhammer, chowderhead, chucklehead, dolt, booby, Tom Noddy, looby, hoddy-doddy, noddy, nonny, noodle, nizy, owl, goose, goosecap, imbecile, gaby, radoteur, nincompoop, badaud, zany, trifler, babbler, pretty fellow, natural, niais, child, baby, infant, innocent, milksop, sop, oaf, lout, loon, lown, dullard, doodle, calf, colt, buzzard, block, put, stick, stock, numps, tony, bull head, dunderhead, addlehead, blockhead, dullhead, loggerhead, jolthead, jolterhead, beetlehead, beetlebrain, grosshead, muttonhead, noodlehead, giddyhead, numbskull, thickskull, lackbrain, shallowbrain, dimwit, halfwit, lackwit, dunderpate, lunkhead sawney, gowk, clod, clod-hopper, clod-poll, clot-poll, clot-pate, bull calf, gawk, Gothamite, lummox, rube, men of Boeotia, wise men of Gotham, un sot a triple etage, sot, jobbernowl, changeling, mooncalf, gobemouche, dotard, driveler, old fogey, old woman, crock, crone, grandmother, cotquean, henhussy, incompetent (insanity), greenhorn, dunce, lubber, madman, one who will not set the Thames on fire, one who did not invent gunpowder, qui n'a pas invente' la poudre, no conjuror, fortuna favet fatuis, les fous font les festinas et les sages les mangen, nomina stultorum parietibus harrent, stultorum plena sunt omnia.

copyright © 2012 Yayasan Lembaga SABDA (YLSA) | To report a problem/suggestion