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cockcrow

cockcrow noun: the time of day at which the first crow of a cockerel is heard; dawn or daybreak; first light.

Noun

cockcrow (countable and uncountable, plural cockcrows)

  1. The time of day at which the first crow of a cockerel is heard; dawn or daybreak; first light.
    • The unfortunate shepherd that approaches them must dance their rounds with them till cock-crow; and the instances are not few of persons thus ensnared who have been found next morning dead with exhaustion and fatigue.1850, Thomas Keightley, The Fairy Mythology, London: H.G. Bohn, page 441
    • I put the chief of police behind the bar, instructed him in his duties, and we four convivial spirits sprawled along the counter drinking ale and telling yarns till cockcrow.1929, Robert Dean Frisbee, The Book of Puka-Puka, Eland, published 2019, page 175

cockcrow meaning in Tamil, Urdu, Assamese and Persian

cockcrow in Tamil

வைகறை

cockcrow in Urdu

cockcrow
اشا uṣā

cockcrow in Assamese

cockcrow
ডাক dak

cockcrow in Persian

dawn
خروسخوان xorusxwān

Synonyms of cockcrow

Forms of cockcrow

pluralcockcrows
alternative formcock-crow

Origin of cockcrow

From Middle English cok crowe (also as cokkes crowe), equivalent to cock + crow. Likely a suppletive variation of Old English hancrǣd (“cockcrow, dawn”, literally “cock-crowing”), from hana (“cock, rooster”) + crǣd (“crowing”).

Questions about cockcrow

What does cockcrow mean?
Cockcrow means the time of day at which the first crow of a cockerel is heard; dawn or daybreak; first light.
What is cockcrow in Tamil?
Cockcrow in Tamil is வைகறை. See Cockcrow meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is cockcrow?
Cockcrow is a noun.
What is the plural of cockcrow?
The plural of cockcrow is cockcrows.

Words near cockcrow in the dictionary

  1. cockchafers
  2. Cockcroft
  3. Cockcroft-Walton generator
  4. Cockcroft-Walton generators
  5. Cockcrofts
  6. cockcrow
  7. cockcrower
  8. cockcrowers
  9. cockcrowing
  10. cockcrowings
  11. cockcrows

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Adapted from Wiktionary: cockcrow (page history and authors); cockcrow (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); اشا (Urdu) (page history and authors); ডাক (Assamese) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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