cockcrow
8 synonyms for cockcrow, grouped by meaning and by how common each one is.
Noun — Early morning, when a rooster first crows; dawn.
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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”).
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