croon
verb /kruːn/
/kruːn/
[transitive, intransitive]Verb Forms
| present simple I / you / we / they croon | /kruːn/ /kruːn/ |
| he / she / it croons | /kruːnz/ /kruːnz/ |
| past simple crooned | /kruːnd/ /kruːnd/ |
| past participle crooned | /kruːnd/ /kruːnd/ |
| -ing form crooning | /ˈkruːnɪŋ/ /ˈkruːnɪŋ/ |
- croon (something) to sing something quietly and gently
- She gently crooned a lullaby.
- Bobby Darren was crooning ‘Dream Lover’.
- She crooned softly to herself.
Word Originlate 15th cent. (originally Scots and northern English): from Middle Low German and Middle Dutch krōnen ‘groan, lament’. The use of croon in standard English was probably popularized by Robert Burns.