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# crone

«crone» in Mova's school dictionary: **An old woman, often ugly, spiteful or wise, who is seen…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

noun (crone, crones)

### meaning for a pupil

(old use, in fairy tales) An old woman, often ugly, spiteful or wise, who is seen as frightening. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/crone/#m1)

### sense in the lessons

an old woman in a tale who speaks sharply, tricks or curses the hero

### examples

- «Be off, old crone!» he replied. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/crone/#x1)
- «That doesn't look well,» says the old crone. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/crone/#x2)
- The old crone did not like this either. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/crone/#x3)

### note

nothing for maths.

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «crone» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/crone/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.