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crayons

crayons is the plural of crayon.

crayons is the third-person singular simple present indicative of crayon.

Meaning of crayon

Noun

crayon (plural crayons)

  1. A stick of colored chalk or wax used for drawing.
  2. (obsolete) 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
  3. (dated) 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
  4. (dated) A pencil of carbon used in producing electric light.

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Phrases with crayons

Questions about crayons

What is crayons the plural of?
Crayons is the plural of crayon.

Words near crayons in the dictionary

  1. crayonistas
  2. crayonists
  3. crayonlike
  4. crayonned
  5. crayonning
  6. crayons
  7. craypot
  8. craypots
  9. crays
  10. Craythorn
  11. Craythorne

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