Croon vs Intone - What's the difference?
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To hum or sing softly or in a sentimental manner.
* Charlotte Brontë
To soothe by singing softly.
* Charles Dickens
(Scotland) To make a continuous hollow moan, as cattle do when in pain.
A soft or sentimental hum or song.
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(lb) To give tone or variety of tone to; to vocalize.
(lb) To utter with a musical or prolonged note or tone; to speak or recite with singing voice; to chant.
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*:But when the moon rose and the breeze awakened, and the sedges stirred, and the cat’s-paws raced across the moonlit ponds, and the far surf off Wonder Head intoned the hymn of the four winds, the trinity, earth and sky and water, became one thunderous symphony—a harmony of sound and colour silvered to a monochrome by the moon.
(lb) To utter a tone; utter a protracted sound.
Croon is a related term of intone.
As verbs the difference between croon and intone
is that croon is to hum or sing softly or in a sentimental manner while intone is (lb) to give tone or variety of tone to; to vocalize.As a noun croon
is a soft or sentimental hum or song.croon
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Verb
- Hearing such stanzas crooned in her praise.
- The fragment of the childish hymn with which he sung and crooned himself asleep.
- (Jamieson)
Derived terms
* croonerNoun
(en noun)citation, page= , passage=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.” }}