Meaning

To hum or sing (a song or tune), or to speak (words), softly in a low pitch or in a sentimental manner; specifically, to sing (a popular song) in a low, mellow voice..

Definitions by Sense

1. To hum or sing (a song or tune), or to speak (words), softly in a low pitch or in a sentimental manner; specifically, to sing (a popular song) in a low, mellow voice.
2. To soothe (a person or an animal) by singing softly.
3. To hum or sing, or to speak, softly in a low pitch or in a sentimental manner; specifically, to sing a popular song in a low, mellow voice.
4. To lament, to moan.
5. To make a continuous hollow low-pitched moan, as of cattle; to bellow, to low.
6. Of a large bell: to make a low-pitched sound.
7. A soft, low-pitched sound; specifically, a soft or sentimental hum, song, or tune.
8. (Northern England, Scotland) A continuous hollow low-pitched moan, as of cattle; a bellow.

Example Sentences

He was crooning a song.

Tam ſkelpit on thro' dub and mire, / Deſpiſing vvind, and rain, and fire; / VVhiles holding faſt his gude blue bonnet; / VVhiles crooning o'er ſome auld Scots ſonnet; […]

So they went, toiling up [the staircase]; she singing all the way, and Paul sometimes crooning out a feeble accompaniment.

[A]ny other woman would have been melted to marrow at hearing such stanzas crooned in her praise.

Thou croonest thy wild death-song o'er the world; / Serene Futurity thou dost conceal; / Thy banner is the shroud, the pall unfurled / Above mankind; […]

By the light of the silvery moon, / I want to spoon, / To my honey I'll croon love's tune, […]

[I]n his ill-remembered prayer, and in the fragment of the childish hymn with which he sung and crooned himself asleep, there breathed as true a spirit as ever studied homily expressed, or old cathedral arches echoed.

“But, you know, crooners gonna croon.”

Word Forms

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