crow

1. 1.

   dwell on with satisfaction

   Synonymsgloattriumph

   Broaderboast

   Narrowerpreen
2. 2.

   express pleasure verbally

   “She crowed with joy”

   Broaderutter
3. 3.

   utter shrill sounds

   “The cocks crowed all morning”

   Broaderutter

Other forms of crow

plural

crows·

past tense

crowed·

present participle

crowing·

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 crow

What does crow mean?

crow means "black birds having a raucous call". That is the primary sense; the word has 9 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in crow?

crow has 1 syllable: crow. In IPA it is /ˈkɹoʊ/.

What is another word for crow?

Close synonyms include Corvus, brag, bragging, crowing, vaporing. 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 crow a common word?

crow is banded "Common" — everyday vocabulary in speech and writing. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with crow?

3 words rhyme with crow. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.