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croon

  [kroon]
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–verb (used without object)
1. to sing or hum in a soft, soothing voice: to croon to a baby.
2. to sing in an evenly modulated, slightly exaggerated manner: Popular singers began crooning in the 1930s.
3. to utter a low murmuring sound.
4. Scot. and North England.
a. to bellow; low.
b. to lament; mourn.
–verb (used with object)
5. to sing (a song) in a crooning manner.
6. to lull by singing or humming to in a soft, soothing voice: to croon a child to sleep.
–noun
7. the act or sound of crooning.
Origin:
1350–1400; ME cronen < MD: to lament

Related forms:
crooner, noun
croon⋅ing⋅ly, adverb
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croon   (krōōn)   
v.   crooned, croon·ing, croons

v.   intr.

  1. To hum or sing softly.

  2. To sing popular songs in a soft, sentimental manner.

  3. Scots To roar or bellow.

v.   tr.
To sing softly or in a humming way: crooning a lullaby.
n.  A soft singing or humming.

[Middle English crounen, from Middle Dutch krōnen, to lament; see gerə-2 in Indo-European roots.]
croon'er n.
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Word Origin & History

croon 
c.1400, originally Scottish, from M.Du. kronen "to lament, mourn," perhaps onomatopoeic. Originally "to bellow like a bull" as well as "to utter a low, murmuring sound" (c.1460). Popularized by Robert Burns. Sense evolved to "lament," then to "sing softly and sadly." Crooner, as a type of popular singer, is from 1930.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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