Meaning of Croon | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A soft, low-pitched sound; specifically, a soft or sentimental hum, song, or tune.
2. A continuous hollow low-pitched moan, as of cattle; a bellow.
   Northern-England, Scotland
3. The low-pitched sound of a large bell.
   Northern-England, Scotland

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Examples

“O, a’ ye Bards on bonie Doon! / An’ vvha on Ayr your chanters tune! / Come, join the melancholious croon / O’ Robin’s reed! / His heart vvill never get aboon! / His Mailie’s dead!”

“Bitterly she cried as she thought over the old hag's croon:— / "Quick joy, long pain, / You will take your gift again."”

“From away out in the darkness came a haunting croon from the lubras and children.”

“And really, Michael Jackson is a more fitting aspiration for the similarly sexless would-be-former teen heartthrob, who’s compared himself to the late King Of Pop (perhaps a bit prematurely) on several occasions and sings in a Jackson-like croon over a sample of “We’ve Got A Good Thing Going” on Believe’s “Die In Your Arms.””

“Amang the brachens, on the brae, / Betvveen her an' the moon, / The Deil, or elſe an outler Quey, / Gat up an' gae a croon: […]”

“The bittern mounts the morning air; / And rings the sky with quavering croon; […]”

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