Definition of "croon"

croon

/ˈkɹuːn/

verb
third-person singular simple present croons, present participle crooning, simple past and past participle crooned
1. (transitive, intransitive) To hum, sing, or speak softly or in a sentimental manner.
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  hearing such stanzas crooned in her praise
  1847 October 16, Currer Bell [pseudonym; Charlotte Brontë], chapter IX, in Jane Eyre. An Autobiography. […], volume II, London: Smith, Elder, and Co., […], page 249
  "Nice seeing you both," a woman at the check-in said. "Hey, I love you," another crooned.
  2020, Sydney Ember, “Sanders drives himself to the polls.”, in New York Times
2. (transitive) To soothe by singing softly.
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  The fragment of the childish hymn with which he sung and crooned himself asleep.
  1841 February–November, Charles Dickens, “Barnaby Rudge”, in Master Humphrey’s Clock, volume III, London: Chapman & Hall, […], chapter 73
3. (Scotland) To make a continuous hollow moan, as cattle do when in pain.
  Quotations
  Even the dull cattle crooned and gazed.
  1813, James Hogg, The Queen's Wake
noun
plural croons
1. A soft or sentimental hum or song.
  Quotations
  And really, Michael Jackson is a more fitting aspiration for the similarly sexless would-be-former teen heartthrob, who’s compared himself to the late King Of Pop (perhaps a bit prematurely) on several occasions and sings in a Jackson-like croon over a sample of “We’ve Got A Good Thing Going” on Believe’s “Die In Your Arms.”
  2012 June 26, Genevieve Koski, “Music: Reviews: Justin Bieber: Believe”, in The A.V. Club‎, archived from the original on 6 August 2020

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