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Crooned vs Crowned - What's the difference?

crooned | crowned |

As verbs the difference between crooned and crowned

is that crooned is past tense of croon while crowned is past tense of crown.

As an adjective crowned is

great; excessive; supreme.

crooned

English

Verb

(head)
  • (croon)

    • croon

    English

    Verb

  • To hum or sing softly or in a sentimental manner.
  • * Charlotte Brontë
    • Hearing such stanzas crooned in her praise.
  • To soothe by singing softly.
  • * Charles Dickens
    • The fragment of the childish hymn with which he sung and crooned himself asleep.
  • (Scotland) To make a continuous hollow moan, as cattle do when in pain.
    • (Jamieson)

    Derived terms

    * crooner

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A soft or sentimental hum or song.
  • * {{quote-news
    • , year=2012 , date=June 26 , author=Genevieve Koski , title=Music: Reviews: Justin Bieber: Believe , work=The Onion AV Club 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.” }}

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    crowned

    English

    Verb

    (head)
  • (crown)

    • Adjective

    (-)
  • (obsolete) Great; excessive; supreme.
    • (Chaucer)
    (Webster 1913)