crayon
Syllables: cray·on/ˈkɹeɪ̯.ɒn/
More pronunciations (2)Fewer pronunciations
British/ˈkɹɛj.ɔn/
crayon noun: a stick of colored chalk or wax used for drawing.
Noun
crayon (plural crayons)
- A stick of colored chalk or wax used for drawing.
- A colored pencil, a colouring pencil
- Let no day pass over you […] without giving some strokes of the pencil or the crayon.1695, C[harles] A[lphonse] du Fresnoy, translated by John Dryden, De Arte Graphica. The Art of Painting, […], London: […] J[ohn] Heptinstall for W. Rogers, […], →OCLC
- Synonyms:
- pencil crayon, colouring pencil
- A crayon drawing, or a drawing with colored lines.
- 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.1885, Littell's Living Age, volume 167, page 187
- A pencil of carbon used in producing electric light.
Verb
crayon (third-person singular simple present crayons, present participle crayoning or (rare) crayonning, simple past and past participle crayoned or (rare) crayonned)
- To draw with a crayon.
crayon meaning in Tamil, Marathi, Bengali and Malayalam
crayon in Tamil
- வண்ணக்கட்டி, வண்ணத் தீட்டுக்கோல், சாயச் சுண்ணக் காம்பு, வண்ணக்கோலால் வரையப்பட்ட ஓவியம், மின் விளக்கில் கரிமுனை, வண்ணக்கோலால் வரை
crayon in Marathi
- colored chalk or wax
- क्रेयॉन kreyŏn
crayon in Bengali
- মোমরঙ, ক্রেয়ন
crayon in Malayalam
- ചായക്കോൽ, വർണ്ണച്ചോക്ക്, ചായപ്പെൻസിൽ
More languagesFewer languages
- crayon in Kannada
- ಬಣ್ಣದ ಸುಣ್ಣಕಡ್ಡಿ
- crayon in Indonesian
- krayon
- crayon in Thai
- สีเทียน sǐi-tiian, สีชอล์ก sǐi-chɔ́k
- crayon in Vietnamese
- viết chì màu, bút sáp
Examples of crayon in a sentence
- Using a crayon, the girl made a print of the leaf under the page.
- Despite to Matt's fears, he did not turn himself into a "meat crayon" in the process.
- “That color is not on any of my chalks or crayons.
Synonyms of crayon
Forms of crayon
| Noun | |
|---|---|
| plural | crayons |
| Verb | |
| third-person singular present | crayons |
| present participle | crayoning |
| past participle | crayoned |
| past | crayoned |
| present participle (rare) | crayonning |
| past participle (rare) | crayonned |
| past (rare) | crayonned |
Origin of crayon
Borrowed from French crayon (“pencil”), from craie (“chalk”) + -on (diminutive suffix), from Latin crēta (“chalk, clay”), perhaps from crētus.
Words formed from crayon
Phrases with crayon
Words that rhyme with crayon
Questions about crayon
- What does crayon mean?
- Crayon means a stick of colored chalk or wax used for drawing.
- What is crayon in Tamil?
- Crayon in Tamil is வண்ணக்கட்டி, வண்ணத் தீட்டுக்கோல், சாயச் சுண்ணக் காம்பு. See Crayon meaning in Tamil.
- What part of speech is crayon?
- Crayon can be a noun or a verb.
- How do you pronounce crayon?
- Crayon is pronounced /ˈkɹeɪ̯.ɒn/ (UK).
- What is the plural of crayon?
- The plural of crayon is crayons.
Words near crayon in the dictionary
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Adapted from Wiktionary: crayon (page history and authors); crayon (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); crayon (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors); crayon (Malayalam Wiktionary) (page history and authors); crayon (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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