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Meaning of cockcrowing | Babel Free

Noun CEFR C1

Definitions

  1. The crowing sound of a cock.
    countable, uncountable
  2. cockcrow; daybreak
    countable, uncountable

Examples

“We might have had hearts in our cradles; but, as I don't pretend to remember mine, I cannot say. Perhaps at sixteen, too, there is a sort of imagination of one; but it is a phantom which flits at the cockcrowing of reality.”

CEFR level

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

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