Antonyms for cockcrow


Grammar : Noun
Spell : kok-kroh or kok-kroh-ing
Phonetic Transcription : ˈkɒkˌkroʊ or ˈkɒkˌkroʊ ɪŋ


Definition of cockcrow

  • noun dawn
Example sentences :
  • When he wakes at cockcrow the revellers are nearly all asleep.
  • Extract from : « Symposium » by Plato
  • She was in the habit of waking them early in the morning, at cockcrow.
  • Extract from : « Aesop's Fables » by Aesop
  • As for sleep, never at cockcrow was I more wakeful than at this moment to-night.
  • Extract from : « Christmas Light » by Ethel Calvert Phillips
  • This morning, too, I arose (joyous and full of love) at cockcrow.
  • Extract from : « Poor Folk » by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
  • The epistles shall be ready by night, and you shall ride at cockcrow.
  • Extract from : « Pabo, The Priest » by Sabine Baring-Gould
  • What possesses all you women to be out at cockcrow in this fashion?
  • Extract from : « Dr. Rumsey's Patient » by L. T. Mead
  • Mine own forerunner am I among this people, mine own cockcrow in dark lanes.
  • Extract from : « Thus Spake Zarathustra » by Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Over and over, quicker and quicker sounded the tune of "Cockcrow."
  • Extract from : « The Child's World » by Hetty Browne, Sarah Withers, W.K. Tate
  • And at night he worked in his office until the midnight cockcrow.
  • Extract from : « A Certain Rich Man » by William Allen White
  • Now, when the man was to set off and buy he was up and away at cockcrow, long before dawn.
  • Extract from : « Tales from the Fjeld » by P. Chr. Asbjrnsen

Synonyms for cockcrow

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