Crayonとは 意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• enPR: krāʹŏn
  • (英国発音) IPA: /ˈkɹeɪ.ɒn/, /ˈkɹeɪ.ɒ̃/, /ˈkɹeɪ.ən/
  • (米国発音) IPA: /ˈkɹeɪ.ɑn/; also /ˈkɹeɪ.ɔn/ (the most common pronunciations, used by 83% of Americans)
• (米国発音, uncommon, especially Northeastern 米国発音, Midwestern 米国発音) IPA: /ˈkɹæn/, [ˈkɹeən]
• (米国発音, rare, especially Philadelphia, New Jersey, sometimes Southern 米国発音) IPA: /ˈkɹaʊn/, [ˈkɹɛɔn], [ˈkɹæɔn]
• (Dublin) IPA: /ˈkɹeɪ.ɑn/, /ˈkɹe.jɑn/
• 韻: -eɪɒn, -eɪən, -æn, -aʊn

名詞

crayon (plural crayons)

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

   Hyponym: Conté

2. A colored pencil, a colouring pencil

   Synonyms: pencil crayon (Canada), colouring pencil (UK)

   • 1695, C[harles] A[lphonse] du Fresnoy, translated by John Dryden, De Arte Graphica. The Art of Painting, […], London: […] J[ohn] Heptinstall for W. Rogers, […], →OCLC:

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

3. (dated) A crayon drawing, or a drawing with colored lines.
   • 1885, Littell's Living Age, volume 167, page 187:

     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.

4. (dated) A pencil of carbon used in producing electric light.

派生語

関連する語

• cretaceous

動詞

crayon (third-person singular simple present crayons, present participle crayoning or crayonning, simple past and past participle crayoned or crayonned)

1. (ambitransitive) To draw with a crayon.

派生語

参照

• “crayon”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.

Further reading

• crayon on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

アナグラム

• acyron