Crayon

Pronunciation

• enPR: krāʹän
• IPA: /ˈkɹeɪ.É™n/, /ˈkɹeɪ.É’n/, /ˈkræn/
• US IPA: ˈkʰɹeÉ™n, ˈkʰɹeɪ.É‘n
• Rhymes: -eɪən

Origin

Borrowing from fr {{2}} crayon ("pencil"), from craie ("chalk") + -on ("(diminutive)"), from Latin creta ("chalk, clay"), from crētus.

Full definition of crayon

Noun

1. A stick of colored chalk or wax used for drawing.
• DrydenLet no day pass over you ... without giving some strokes of the pencil or the crayon.
2. (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.
3. (dated) A pencil of carbon used in producing electric light.

Verb

1. To draw with a crayon.----