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Cockcrow

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

n. The very beginning of the day; dawn.

Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

n. The time of day at which the first crow of a cockerel is heard; dawn or daybreak; first light

the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English

n. The time at which cocks first crow; the early morning; the first light of day.

The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

n. The time at which cocks crow; the dawn of day.

WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

n. the first light of day

Word Usage

"He, who neither drank nor smoked, who never wasted the weight of his arms in an embrace, nor the touch of his lips a second longer than the most perfunctory of kisses, who was invariably up before cockcrow and asleep ere the kerosene lamp had a tenth emptied itself, and who never thought to die, was dead even more quickly than Brother Hal and Prince Lilolilo."

Equivalent

cockcrowing

Hypernym

Words that are more generic or abstract

time of day hour

Synonym

Words with the same meaning

dawn dawning morning aurora first light

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