Usually means: Old woman, often wise, witch.
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  1. crone: Merriam-Webster
  2. crone: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. crone: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. crone: Collins English Dictionary
  5. crone: Vocabulary.com
  6. Crone, crone: Wordnik
  7. crone: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. Crone, crone: Wiktionary
  9. crone: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. crone: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. crone: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Crone, crone: Dictionary.com
  13. crone: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. Crone: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  15. Crone: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  16. crone: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  17. crone: Rhymezone
  18. Crone: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  19. crone: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  20. crone: FreeDictionary.org
  21. crone: Mnemonic Dictionary
  22. crone: TheFreeDictionary.com
  23. crone: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

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  1. crone: Medical dictionary

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  1. CRONE: Acronym Finder

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  1. crone: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  (archaic) An old woman.
noun:  An archetypal figure, a wise woman.
noun:  An ugly, evil-looking, or frightening old woman; a hag.
noun:  (obsolete) An old ewe.
noun:  (obsolete) An old man, especially one who talks and acts like an old woman.
noun:  (Wicca) One of the triune goddesses of the Lady in Wicca alongside the Mother and Maiden, representing an old woman.

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