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cockcrows

noun

plural of cockcrow
as in sunrises
the first appearance of light in the morning or the time of its appearance by cockcrow the mysterious stranger had vanished

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  1. sunrises
  2. days
  3. mornings
  4. dawns
  5. daylights
Noun
  • Ewa Mroczkowska’s production design also turns dewy embankments, decadent interiors, and sunrises over cemeteries into visions of storybook-like decay.
    — Alison Foreman, IndieWire, 5 Sep. 2026
  • That sunlight passing through Earth's atmosphere, where the blues are scattered away, and the reds are bent towards the moon, essentially casts the colors of the Earth's sunrises and sunsets onto the lunar surface.
    — Marina Jurica, CBS News, 27 Aug. 2026
Definition of sunrises
Noun
  • Usually a cold front blows through a few days before the dove season opener.
    — Bryan Hendricks, Arkansas Online, 6 Sep. 2026
  • Having both arrived just a few days ago, these were good starts, but of course more is expected.
    — Chris Waugh, New York Times, 6 Sep. 2026
Definition of days
Noun
  • Take San Jose, California, mother of four Alyssa Munoz, who swaps the local park for a different kind of playground on Sunday mornings.
    — Jessica Guynn, USA Today, 16 Sep. 2026
  • Thousands of Chiefs fans spent their Sunday nights and Monday mornings, afternoons and evenings at Arrowhead Stadium ahead of the home opener against AFC West division rival Denver.
    — Joseph Hernandez, Kansas City Star, 15 Sep. 2026
Definition of mornings
Noun
  • Morning dawns gray and dismal, but the rain has almost ended.
    — Ralph Tuttle, Outdoor Life, 25 June 2026
  • Warnings, laments, and odes to renewal were expressed pictorially as dying days under bleeding heavens, belching volcanoes, proud icebergs, lavish rainbows amid spangling, mist-suffusing sunlight and dawns of peace and hope.
    — Sebastian Smee, New Yorker, 4 May 2026
Definition of dawns
Noun
  • Then the two boxers pound the daylights out of each other.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 13 June 2026
  • The former daytime talk show host scared the daylights out of Kris Jenner over the weekend.
    — Kathleen Perricone, Entertainment Weekly, 8 June 2026
Definition of daylights
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“Cockcrows.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/cockcrows. Accessed 17 Sep. 2026.

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