Cronian
English
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Ancient Greek Κρόνος (Krónos, “Saturn”) + English -ean.
Pronunciation
[edit]- IPA(key): /ˈkɹəʊniən/
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Adjective
[edit]Cronian (not comparable)
- (poetic) Saturnian; applied to the Arctic Ocean.
- 1667, John Milton, “Book IX”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […]; [a]nd by Robert Boulter […]; [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], →OCLC; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, →OCLC:
- As when two polar winds, blowing adverse / Upon the Cronian sea […]
- (astronomy) Related to the planet Saturn.
Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “Cronian”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)