cockcrow

1. 1.

   the first light of day

   “we got up before dawn”

   “they talked until morning”

   Synonymsdawndawningmorningaurorafirst lightdaybreakbreak of daybreak of the daydayspringsunrisesunup

   Broaderhour

Other forms of cockcrow

plural

cockcrows·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about cockcrow

What does cockcrow mean?

cockcrow means "the first light of day".

How many syllables are in cockcrow?

cockcrow has 2 syllables: cock-crow. The stress falls on "cock".

What is another word for cockcrow?

Close synonyms include dawn, dawning, morning, aurora, first light. 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 cockcrow a common word?

cockcrow is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.