Crone

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. isim An old woman.

   “But still the crone was constant to her note.”

2. isim An archetypal figure, a wise woman.

   ““And what is your name, crispy, old, wizened crone?” “Oh, my name's Helen.” “Hel-- Oh, just Helen. That's it. Just Helen?” “Helen the Magic Woman.” “And you can help me rid myself of this disgusting hex?” “Yes.””

3. isim An ugly, evil-looking, or frightening old woman; a hag.

   “With black unseeing eyes the old woman, the crone, stares at him and through him. Over and over she mutters a word that he cannot quite catch, something like Toomderoom.”

4. isim An old ewe.

   “In traveling homeward, buy forty good crones, and fat up the bodies of those seely bones”

5. isim An old man, especially one who talks and acts like an old woman.

   “The old crone [a negro man] lived in a hovel, in the midst of a small patch of potatoes and Indian corn, which his master had given him on setting him free.”

6. isim One of the triune goddesses of the Lady in Wicca alongside the Mother and Maiden, representing an old woman.

   “[…] different stages of life as represented by our Lady as Maiden, Mother, and Crone, as well as our Lord as Master, Father, and Sage.”