CROONING

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does crooning mean? 

• CROONING (noun)
  The noun CROONING has 2 senses:

1. singing in a soft low tone

2. the act of singing popular songs in a sentimental manner

  Familiarity information: CROONING used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CROONING (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Singing in a soft low tone

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Context example:

her crooning soon put the child to sleep

Hypernyms ("crooning" is a kind of...):

singing; vocalizing (the act of singing vocal music)

Derivation:

croon (sing softly)

Sense 2

Meaning:

The act of singing popular songs in a sentimental manner

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Hypernyms ("crooning" is a kind of...):

singing; vocalizing (the act of singing vocal music)

Derivation:

croon (sing softly)

 Context examples 

“Youth will be served,” said a crooning voice from the other side of the table.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

And White Fang was growling responsively, the crooning note of the growl more pronounced than ever.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

There lay the Ghost, bow on to the beach, her splintered bowsprit projecting over the sand, her tangled spars rubbing against her side to the lift of the crooning waves.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

Black Simon of Norwich crouched amid the rocks, crooning an Eastland ballad to himself, while he whetted his sword upon a flat stone which lay across his knees; while beside him sat Alleyne Edricson, and Norbury, the silent squire of Sir Oliver, holding out their chilled hands towards the crackling faggots.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Beyond his snuggling and the throwing of a crooning note into his love-growl, he had no way of expressing his love.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

It sounded like the gurgling of a brook over mossy stones in some quiet dell, and the crooning song of it lured me away and out of myself till I was no longer Hump the cabin-boy, nor Van Weyden, the man who had dreamed away thirty-five years among books.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

White Fang, still wrought up and bristling, growled and growled, the hair slowly lying down, the crooning note remote and dim, but growing in his throat.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

A cuff from the master and a sharp word had then compelled him to permit their caresses, though he growled and growled under their tiny hands, and in the growl there was no crooning note.

(White Fang, by Jack London)