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Cronian en · ADJ

Pronunciation

• (Southern-England) audio
• /ˈkɹəʊ.ni.ən/ (Received-Pronunciation)
• /ˈkɹoʊ.ni.ən/ (General-American)

Etymology

Ancient Greek Κρόνος (Krónos, “Saturn”) + English -ean.

Meanings

1. (not-comparable, poetic) Saturnian; applied to the Arctic Ocean.
   • As when two polar winds, blowing adverse / Upon the Cronian sea[…] 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:
2. (not-comparable) Related to the planet Saturn.
3. (not-comparable) Related to Saturn (the god)
   • The Cronian King 1961, Edgar Leoni (translator), Nostradamus (original), Nostradamus: Life and Literature:

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