crayon

CEFRA2

/ˈkɹeɪ̯.ɒn/

noun

Türkçe translations

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In plain English

  1. 01

    noun

    A colored stick of wax used for drawing.

  2. 02

    noun

    Extra detail

    A colored pencil, a colouring pencil

Examples

  • I need a purple crayon for my drawing.

  • Could I have that crayon, please?

At a glance

Sits at A2 on the CEFR scale

Senses
5
Parts of speech
1
Citations
2
Synonyms
2

Also pronounced

  • [ˈkɹeɪ̯.ɒ̃]
  • [ˈkɹɛə̯n ~ ˈkɹeə̯n]

Deep Dive

noun

Extra meanings

  1. A crayon drawing, or a drawing with colored lines.

  2. A stick of colored chalk or wax used for drawing.

  3. A pencil of carbon used in producing electric light.

More examples

In context

  • Let no day pass over you […] without giving some strokes of the pencil or the crayon.

  • But on the wall hung two fine crayons, representing Louis XVI. and Marie Antoinette — pictures which she recognized as having hung in the corridor of the Tuileries — and in front of them were burning two candles on a species of rude altar.

Synonyms

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The toddler picked a blue blank to draw a wavy line on the paper.

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Origin

noun

Borrowed from French crayon (“pencil”), from craie (“chalk”) + -on (diminutive suffix), from Latin crēta (“chalk, clay”), perhaps from crētus.