Library / English Dictionary

CROON

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

 I. (verb) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Sing softly

Classified under:

Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing

Hypernyms (to "croon" is one way to...):

sing (produce tones with the voice)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s
Somebody ----s something

Sentence example:

Sam and Sue croon

Derivation:

crooner (a singer of popular ballads)

crooning (the act of singing popular songs in a sentimental manner)

crooning (singing in a soft low tone)

Credits

 Context examples: 

White Fang, still wrought up and bristling, growled and growled, the hair slowly lying down, the crooning note remote and dim, but growing in his throat.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

Nevertheless, Weedon Scott's ear and sympathy were fine enough to catch the new note all but drowned in the fierceness—the note that was the faintest hint of a croon of content and that none but he could hear.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

A cuff from the master and a sharp word had then compelled him to permit their caresses, though he growled and growled under their tiny hands, and in the growl there was no crooning note.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

"Bles-sed pre-cious," she crooned, holding out her arms. "Come to your own mother that loves you."

(The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald)