Meaning

4 senses
  1. A stick of colored chalk or wax used for drawing.

    Wachsmalstift

    цветно́й каранда́шcvetnój karandáš, пасте́льpastɛ́lʹ

    writing implement consisting of a colored stick of composition wax used for writing and drawing

  2. (dated)A crayon drawing, or a drawing with colored lines.

  3. (dated)A pencil of carbon used in producing electric light.

  4. (obsolete)A colored pencil, a colouring pencil

Examples

39 sentences
  1. Tom has a box of crayons.

    ruУ Тома есть коробка карандашей.

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  2. I bought Tom a box of crayons.

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  3. I bought a box of crayons for Tom.

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  4. Tom scribbled on the wall with a blue crayon.

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  5. Tom put the box of crayons in his desk drawer.

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Translations

8 languages
Русский
By meaning 1
colored chalk or wax:
Deutsch
By meaning 1
colored chalk or wax:

Origin

Borrowed from French crayon (“pencil”), from craie (“chalk”) + -on (diminutive suffix), fr

Borrowed from French crayon (“pencil”), from craie (“chalk”) + -on (diminutive suffix), from Latin crēta (“chalk, clay”), perhaps from crētus.

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Forms

plural: crayons
Singularcrayon
Pluralcrayons

regular

Synonyms

3 synonyms
pencil crayoncolouring pencil
Close in meaning
  • writing implement consisting of a colored stick of composition wax used for writing and drawing:wax crayon

Word family

10 related words

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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