crayon

Meaning

Noun

1. A stick of colored chalk or wax used for drawing.
2. A colored pencil, a colouring pencil
3. (dated) A crayon drawing, or a drawing with colored lines.
4. (dated) A pencil of carbon used in producing electric light.

Verb

To draw with a crayon.

Synonyms

pencil

📝

colored pencil

coloured pencil

wax crayon

chalk

pastel

charcoal

lipstick

💄

paint

tincture

tint

colour pencil

piece of chalk

krytol

drawing with coloured chalk

Tailor’s chalk

carbon rod

coloured pen

chaulk

color

colors

colours

crayon drawing

lead

Translations

pastello

Buntstift

pastel

🖍️

pastel

kleurpotlood

matita colorata

crayon de couleur

creyón

🖍️

Zeichenstift

crayon

📝

Kreide

κραγιόνι

παστέλ

giz de cera

🖍️

lápiz de cera

🖍️

Pronounced as (IPA)

/ˈkɹeɪ.ɒn/

Etymology

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