crooner

Questions about crooner

What does crooner mean?

crooner means "a singer of popular ballads".

How many syllables are in crooner?

crooner has 2 syllables: croo-ner. The stress falls on "croo". In IPA it is /ˈkɹunɚ/.

What is another word for crooner?

Close synonyms include balladeer. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is crooner a common word?

crooner is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.