Crooner vs Crooned - What's the difference?
crooner | crooned |
One who croons; a singer, usually male, especially of popular music.
(croon)
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.
* {{quote-news
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, date=June 26
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, title=Music: Reviews: Justin Bieber: Believe
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As a noun crooner
is one who croons; a singer, usually male, especially of popular music.As a verb crooned is
past tense of croon.crooner
English
(wikipedia crooner)Noun
(en noun)- My mom likes to listen to old crooners like Frank Sinatra and Tommy Dorsey.
Anagrams
* coroner English agent nounscrooned
English
Verb
(head)croon
English
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.” }}