COCKCROW

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does cockcrow mean? 

• COCKCROW (noun)
  The noun COCKCROW has 1 sense:

1. the first light of day

  Familiarity information: COCKCROW used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• COCKCROW (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The first light of day

Classified under:

Nouns denoting time and temporal relations

Synonyms:

aurora; break of day; break of the day; cockcrow; dawn; dawning; daybreak; dayspring; first light; morning; sunrise; sunup

Context example:

they talked until morning

Hypernyms ("cockcrow" is a kind of...):

hour; time of day (clock time)

 Context examples 

This diary seems horribly like the beginning of the Arabian Nights, for everything has to break off at cockcrow—or like the ghost of Hamlet's father.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)