Crore vs Crone - What's the difference?
crore | crone |
(India) Ten millions, particularly with regard to a currency.
:Following the ban, the government stands to lose Rs 30 crore annually, sources said. (India Times, 2nd July 2003)
(obsolete) An old woman.
* Dryden
An archetypal figure, a Wise Woman.
An ugly, evil-looking, or frightening old woman; a hag.
(obsolete) An old ewe.
(obsolete) An old man, especially one who talks and acts like an old woman.
* Beaconsfield
* Washington Irving
As nouns the difference between crore and crone
is that crore is (india) ten millions, particularly with regard to a currency while crone is (wicca) one of the triune goddesses of the lady in wicca alongside the mother and maiden and representing an old woman.crore
English
Noun
(en noun)- The population of Gujarat is 3.39 crores .
Usage notes
There seems to be no standard way of abbreviating crore . The Indian press uses Cr, cr, with apparent indifference. Most often it is not abbreviated at all.See also
* lakhcrone
English
Noun
(en noun)- But still the crone was constant to her note.
- (Tusser)
- A few old battered crones of office.
- The old crone [a negro man] lived in a hovel which his master had given him.