English Dictionary

crone

IPA（発音記号）

/kɹoʊn/

名詞

古語 廃用

(archaic) An old woman. / An archetypal figure, a Wise Woman. / An ugly, evil-looking, or frightening old woman; a hag. / (obsolete) An old ewe.

日本語の意味

（古語）年老いた女性、老婆 / 原型的な存在としての、賢い女性（賢女とも解釈される） / 醜く、邪悪な印象を与える、または恐ろしい雰囲気のある老婆（いわゆる魔女や老魔女としてのイメージ） / （現代では使用されなくなった意味）老齢の雌羊

The villagers whispered that the crone on the hill knew every secret in the valley.

村人たちは、丘の上の老婆が谷のすべての秘密を知っているとささやいた。

意味（1）

(archaic) An old woman.

But still the crone was constant to her note.

意味（2）

An archetypal figure, a Wise Woman.

意味（3）

An ugly, evil-looking, or frightening old woman; a hag.

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.

意味（4）

(obsolete) An old ewe.

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

意味（5）

(obsolete) An old man, especially one who talks and acts like an old woman.

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.

crones （ plural ）