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Meaning of Chanticleer | Babel Free

Noun CEFR C1
ˈtʃɑːntɪˌklɪə

Definitions

A domestic rooster or cock, especially in fables and fairy tales.

archaic, literary

Equivalents

العربية الدّيك

Examples

“When I did hear / The motley fool, thus moral on the time, / My lungs began to crow like chanticleer, / That fools should be so deep-contemplative[…].”
“It is happily some particular sense that unto cockes or chanticleares discovereth the morning and midnight houre, and moveth them to crow[…].”

CEFR level

C1
Advanced
This word is part of the CEFR C1 vocabulary — advanced level.
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See also

Chanticleers chantie Chantignan Chantilly Chantilly cream Chantilly lace

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