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Webster 1913 Edition

Crayon

Cray′on

(kr?′?n)
,
Noun.
[F., a crayon, a lead pencil (
crayon Conté
Conté’s pencil, i. e., one made a black compound invented by Conté), fr.
craie
chalk, L.
creta
; said to be, properly, Cretan earth, fr.
Creta
the island Crete. Cf.
Cretaceous
.]
1.
An implement for drawing, made of clay and plumbago, or of some preparation of chalk, usually sold in small prisms or cylinders.
Let no day pass over you . . . without giving some strokes of the pencil or the
crayon
.
Dryden.
☞ The black crayon gives a deeper black than the lead pencil. This and the colored crayons are often called chalks. The red crayon is also called sanguine. See
Chalk
, and
Sanguine
.
2.
A crayon drawing.
3.
(Electricity)
A pencil of carbon used in producing electric light.
Crayon board
,
cardboard with a surface prepared for crayon drawing.
–
Crayon drawing
,
the act or art of drawing with crayons; a drawing made with crayons.

Cray′on

,
Verb.
T.
[
imp. & p. p.
Crayoned
(-?nd)
;
p. pr. & vb. n.
Crayoning
.]
[Cf. F.
crayonner
.]
To sketch, as with a crayon; to sketch or plan.
He soon afterwards composed that discourse, conformably to the plan which he had
crayoned
out.
Malone.

Webster 1828 Edition

Crayon

CRAYON

,
Noun.
[L.]
1.
A general name for all colored stones, earths, or other minerals and substances, used in designing or painting in pastel or paste, whether they have been beaten and reduced to paste, or are used in their primitive consistence. Red crayons are made of blood-stone or red chalk; black ones, of charcoal or black lead.
2.
A kind of pencil, or roll of paste, to draw lines with.
3.
A drawing or design done with a pencil or crayon.

Definition 2024

crayon

crayon

English

Wax crayons.

Noun

crayon ‎(plural crayons)

  1. A stick of colored chalk or wax used for drawing.
  2. A colored pencil.
    • Dryden
      Let no day pass over you […] without giving some strokes of the pencil or the crayon.
  3. (dated) A crayon drawing.
    • 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.

Synonyms

Translations

Verb

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

  1. To draw with a crayon.

References

  1. ↑ Harvard Dialect Survey
  2. ↑ Harvard Dialect Survey
  3. ↑ Harvard Dialect Survey

French

Etymology

craie ‎(“chalk”) +‎ -on ‎(“(diminutive)”), from Latin creta ‎(“chalk, clay”), from crētus.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /kʁɛ.jɔ̃/

Noun

crayon m ‎(plural crayons)

  1. pencil

Etymology

Borrowing from French crayon ‎(“pencil”), from craie ‎(“chalk”) + -on ‎(“(diminutive)”), from Latin creta ‎(“chalk, clay”), from crētus.

Pronunciation

  • enPR: krāʹän
  • (UK) IPA(key): /ˈkɹeɪ.ən/
  • (US) IPA(key): /ˈkɹeɪ.ɒn/, [ˈkʰɹeɪ.ɑn], also /ˈkɹeɪ.ɔn/ (the most common pronunciations, used by 83% of Americans)[1]
  • (US, uncommon, especially Northeastern US, Midwestern US) IPA(key): /ˈkræn/[2]
  • (US, rare, especially Philadelphia, New Jersey, sometimes Southern US) IPA(key): [kɹaʊn][3]
  • Rhymes: -aʊn

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