crooner

English

Etymology

From croon +‎ -er.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈkɹuːn.ə(ɹ)/

• Audio (Southern England):

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• Rhymes: -uːnə(ɹ)

Noun

crooner (plural crooners)

1. One who croons; a singer, usually male, especially of popular music.

   My mom likes to listen to old crooners like Frank Sinatra and Tommy Dorsey.

   • 2021 September 16, Sarah Naftalis, “The Casino” (8:14 from the start), in What We Do in the Shadows‎^[1], season 3, episode 1, spoken by Nadja of Antipaxos (Natasia Demetriou):

     “But, you know, crooners gonna croon.”

   • 2024 October 31, Stephanie Amante-Ritter, “The Best Exotic Nanite Hotel” (8:44 from the start), in Star Trek: Lower Decks‎^[2], season 5, episode 3, spoken by Beckett Mariner (Tawny Newsome):

     “Curious.” “Ah, don't waste those big Vulcan brain juices, T'Lyn. He's just a novelty beach crooner.” “Krog is my favorite musician.” “Oh. Sorry. I-I've heard he's very, uh, tropical.” “He is a master of the Vibe Tubes.”

Translations

one who croons

• Dutch: smartlapzanger m, volkszanger (nl) m
• Faroese: lættisoppasangari m
• French: chanteur de charme m
• German: Schnulzensänger m, Schlagersänger (de) m
• Hungarian: sanzonénekes (hu)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: smørsanger (no) m

• Russian: кру́нер (ru) m (krúner)
• Swedish: smörsångare (sv) c

Anagrams

• coroner

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kʁu.ne/

• Audio:

  (file)

Noun

crooner m (plural crooners)

1. crooner

Verb

crooner

1. (music) to croon

Conjugation

Conjugation of crooner (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	crooner
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	croonant /kʁu.nɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		crooné /kʁu.ne/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	croone /kʁun/	croones /kʁun/	croone /kʁun/	croonons /kʁu.nɔ̃/	croonez /kʁu.ne/	croonent /kʁun/
	imperfect	croonais /kʁu.nɛ/	croonais /kʁu.nɛ/	croonait /kʁu.nɛ/	croonions /kʁu.njɔ̃/	crooniez /kʁu.nje/	croonaient /kʁu.nɛ/
	past historic2	croonai /kʁu.ne/	croonas /kʁu.na/	croona /kʁu.na/	croonâmes /kʁu.nam/	croonâtes /kʁu.nat/	croonèrent /kʁu.nɛʁ/
	future	croonerai /kʁun.ʁe/	crooneras /kʁun.ʁa/	croonera /kʁun.ʁa/	croonerons /kʁun.ʁɔ̃/	croonerez /kʁun.ʁe/	crooneront /kʁun.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	croonerais /kʁun.ʁɛ/	croonerais /kʁun.ʁɛ/	croonerait /kʁun.ʁɛ/	croonerions /kʁu.nə.ʁjɔ̃/	crooneriez /kʁu.nə.ʁje/	crooneraient /kʁun.ʁɛ/
(compound tenses)	present perfect	present indicative of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect	imperfect indicative of avoir + past participle
	past anterior2	past historic of avoir + past participle
	future perfect	future of avoir + past participle
	conditional perfect	conditional of avoir + past participle
subjunctive		que je (j’)	que tu	qu’il, qu’elle	que nous	que vous	qu’ils, qu’elles
(simple tenses)	present	croone /kʁun/	croones /kʁun/	croone /kʁun/	croonions /kʁu.njɔ̃/	crooniez /kʁu.nje/	croonent /kʁun/
	imperfect2	croonasse /kʁu.nas/	croonasses /kʁu.nas/	croonât /kʁu.na/	croonassions /kʁu.na.sjɔ̃/	croonassiez /kʁu.na.sje/	croonassent /kʁu.nas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	croone /kʁun/	—	croonons /kʁu.nɔ̃/	croonez /kʁu.ne/	—
compound		—	simple imperative of avoir + past participle	—	simple imperative of avoir + past participle	simple imperative of avoir + past participle	—
1 The French gerund is usable only with the preposition en.
2 In less formal writing or speech, these tenses may be found to have been replaced in the following way: past historic → present perfect past anterior → pluperfect imperfect subjunctive → present subjunctive pluperfect subjunctive → past subjunctive (Christopher Kendris [1995], Master the Basics: French, pp. 77, 78, 79, 81).

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈkɾuneɾ/ [ˈkɾu.neɾ]
• Rhymes: -uneɾ
• Syllabification: croo‧ner

Noun

crooner m (plural crooners)

1. crooner