"cockcrow" meaning in English

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Noun

Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Wodencafe-cockcrow.wav [US] Forms: cockcrows [plural]
Etymology: 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”). Etymology templates: {{inh|en|enm|cok crowe}} Middle English cok crowe, {{m|enm|cokkes crowe}} cokkes crowe, {{com|en|cock|crow}} cock + crow, {{der|en|ang|hancrǣd|lit=cock-crowing|t=cockcrow, dawn}} Old English hancrǣd (“cockcrow, dawn”, literally “cock-crowing”), {{m|ang|hana|t=cock, rooster}} hana (“cock, rooster”), {{m|ang|crǣd|t=crowing}} crǣd (“crowing”) Head templates: {{en-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 Tags: countable, uncountable Categories (topical): Times of day Synonyms: break of day, sunup, sparrow-fart, dawn, cock-crow Related terms: cockcrowing, cockscrow Translations (dawn): աքլորականչ (akʿlorakančʿ) (Armenian), առավոտականչ (aṙavotakančʿ) (Armenian), разсъмване (razsǎmvane) (Bulgarian), първи петли (pǎrvi petli) (Bulgarian), kuropění [neuter] (Czech), kukonlaulu (Finnish), Hahnenschrei [masculine] (German), gallicinium [neuter] (Latin), зо́ра (zóra) [feminine] (Macedonian), otta [common-gender] (Swedish), hanegäll [neuter] (Swedish), dagbräckning [common-gender] (Swedish)

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