Cronian

• Kronian

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

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈkɹəʊ.ni.ən/

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• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈkɹoʊ.ni.ən/
• Rhymes: -əʊniən

Cronian (not comparable)

1. (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 […]

2. (astronomy) Related to the planet Saturn.
3. Related to Saturn (the god)
   • 1961, Edgar Leoni (translator), Nostradamus (original), Nostradamus: Life and Literature:

     The Cronian King

• “Cronian”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

• Corinna, Norican