Usually means: Dawn signaled by rooster's call.
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  1. cockcrow: Merriam-Webster
  2. cockcrow: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. cockcrow: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. cockcrow: Collins English Dictionary
  5. cockcrow: Vocabulary.com
  6. cockcrow: Wordnik
  7. cockcrow: Wiktionary
  8. cockcrow: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. cockcrow: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  10. cockcrow: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. Cockcrow, cockcrow: Dictionary.com
  12. Cockcrow: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  13. cockcrow: Rhymezone
  14. Cockcrow: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  15. cockcrow: FreeDictionary.org
  16. cockcrow: Mnemonic Dictionary
  17. cockcrow: TheFreeDictionary.com
  18. cockcrow: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

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  1. cockcrow: Encyclopedia

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▸ noun:  The time of day at which the first crow of a cockerel is heard; dawn or daybreak; first light

Similar:
dawning, sunup, daybreak, break of day, sunrise, morning, dayspring, first light, aurora, break of the day, more...

Opposite:
sunset, dusk, twilight

Types:
cockerel, rooster, more...

Adjectives:
first, second, third, distant, early, gallic, welcome, ordinary, shrill, fourth, impure

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Similar:
dawning, sunup, daybreak, break of day, sunrise, morning, dayspring, first light, aurora, break of the day, more...

Opposite:
sunset, dusk, twilight

Types:
cockerel, rooster, more...

Adjectives:
first, second, third, distant, early, gallic, welcome, ordinary, shrill, fourth, impure



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