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A crone is an old woman, but the word is not kind. It paints her as ugly, harsh, or . You meet it in fairy tales and old stories — the witch in the woods is often called a crone. In real life it is an insult. Younger speakers do not use it much except as a story word, or to be deliberately mean. It is not a calm word for “grandmother” or “old lady,” and it is not used for old men.
醜老太婆、老妖婆（貶義；童話裡常見）
組成From Middle English crone, from Anglo-Norman carogne, a nasty word that also meant a dead body or an old sheep. Modern French charogne is a cousin. English took this family in twice, and the two words grew apart.
同家族的字
- carrionboth come from that old French word for a carcass; English borrowed it twice and the meanings split.
原始詞典資料6 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
Cronenoun
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WiccalifestylereligionOne of the triune goddesses of the Lady in Wicca alongside the Mother and Maiden, representing an old woman.
- […] different stages of life as represented by our Lady as Maiden, Mother, and Crone, as well as our Lord as Master, Father, and Sage.
- The Lady is often thought of as having three aspects: Maiden, Mother, and Crone.
cronenoun/kɹoʊn/
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archaicAn old woman.
- But still the crone was constant to her note.
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An archetypal figure, a wise woman.
- “And what is your name, crispy, old, wizened crone?” “Oh, my name's Helen.” “Hel-- Oh, just Helen. That's it. Just Helen?” “Helen the Magic Woman.” “And you can help me rid myself of this disgusting hex?” “Yes.”
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An ugly, evil-looking, or frightening old woman; a hag.
- With black unseeing eyes the old woman, the crone, stares at him and through him. Over and over she mutters a word that he cannot quite catch, something like Toomderoom.
- “Let's welcome the most beautiful girl I know and I've ever met. My good lady wife Nadja. Come on.” “Oh, she's right here. I've got her.” “I'm here.” “Quiet, crone! Hello, everyone. Thank you all so much for coming.”
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obsoleteAn old ewe.
- In traveling homeward, buy forty good crones, and fat up the bodies of those seely bones
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obsoleteAn old man, especially one who talks and acts like an old woman.
- The old crone [a negro man] lived in a hovel, in the midst of a small patch of potatoes and Indian corn, which his master had given him on setting him free.
- A few old battered crones of office.
資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。