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cres.

cres. is the abbreviation of crescent.

cres. is the abbreviation of crescendo.

Meaning of crescent

Noun

crescent (plural crescents)

  1. The figure of the moon as it appears between its first or last quarter and the new moon, with concave and convex edges terminating in points.
  2. A curved pastry.
  3. A curved street, often presenting a continuous façade, as of row houses.
  4. A representation of a crescent, used as a symbol of Islam.
    • The Turkish flag features a white star and crescent on red base.
  5. The emblem of the waxing moon with horns directed upward, when used in a coat of arms; often used as a mark of cadency to distinguish a second son and his descendants.
  6. (New Zealand) A crescent spanner.

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Meaning of crescendo

Noun

crescendo (plural crescendos or crescendi or crescendoes)

  1. An instruction to play gradually more loudly, denoted by a long, narrow angle with its apex on the left ( < ), by musicians called a hairpin.
    • As he came into the window / It was the sound of a crescendo1987, Michael Jackson, “Smooth Criminal”, in Bad
  2. (figuratively) A gradual increase of anything, especially to a dramatic climax.
    • Their fighting rose in a fearsome crescendo.
  3. (figuratively, nonstandard) The climax of a gradual increase.
    • Their arguing rose to a fearsome crescendo.

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Questions about cres.

What is cres. the abbreviation of?
Cres. is the abbreviation of crescent.

Words near cres. in the dictionary

  1. Creques
  2. Crerand
  3. Crerands
  4. crerarite
  5. Cres
  6. cres.
  7. Cresap
  8. Cresaps
  9. cresc
  10. crescence
  11. crescendi

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Adapted from Wiktionary: cres. (page history and authors); crescent (page history and authors); crescendo (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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