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Plural of crone

regular plural

The plural of crone is crones.

Forms of crone

Singularcrone /kɹoʊn/
Pluralcrones
Countablecountable

Crones in a sentence

  • Male characters showing up as young heroes-in-the-making or sage old doddards, and female characters being maidens, matrons or crones?2018, Neil Foster MacPhail, Beowulf and Other Tales, [Morrisville, N.C.]: [Lulu.com], →ISBN, page 241. From the entry doddard
  • It's part of my job, you know that." "Yeah, bowing and scraping and tugging your forelock to all those rich old crones.2013, William G. Tapply, The Dutch Blue Error. From the entry tug one's forelock

Meaning of crone

  1. noun An old woman.
  2. noun An archetypal figure, a wise woman.
  3. noun An ugly, evil-looking, or frightening old woman; a hag.

Full definition of crone

Questions about the plural of crone

What is the plural of crone?
The plural of crone is crones.
Is crone countable?
Crone is a countable noun.

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Adapted from Wiktionary: crone (page history and authors) and the entries of its forms. Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws left out forms marked obsolete, archaic, rare or dialectal and added the examples. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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