Antonyms for cockcrow
| Grammar : Noun |
| Spell : kok-kroh or kok-kroh-ing |
| Phonetic Transcription : ˈkɒkˌkroʊ or ˈkɒkˌkroʊ ɪŋ |
Definition of cockcrow
- noun dawn
- 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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