ENGLISH DICTIONARY

Crayon

Definition, Meaning & Examples

Pronunciation /ˈkɹeɪ̯.ɒn/ · Part of speech noun

Quick meaning: Crayon is a noun meaning A stick of colored chalk or wax used for drawing.

Meaning

A stick of colored chalk or wax used for drawing.

More Meanings

  1. (ambitransitive) To draw with a crayon.
  2. (obsolete) A colored pencil, a colouring pencil
  3. (dated) A crayon drawing, or a drawing with colored lines.
  4. (dated) A pencil of carbon used in producing electric light.

Example Sentences

Let no day pass over you […] without giving some strokes of the pencil or the crayon.
But on the wall hung two fine crayons, representing Louis XVI. and Marie Antoinette — pictures which she recognized as having hung in the corridor of the Tuileries — and in front of them were burning two candles on a species of rude altar.

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Related dictionary entries include marker, stylus, pencil, eyeliner, conte, pen.

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