noun

• Dawn.

  ‘she helped him to dance until cockcrow’

  More example sentences

  • ‘Indian boys play with makeshift bats and balls from cockcrow to nightfall.’
  • ‘He farms, gets up at cockcrow for milking and still manages to run the award winning farm B & B with his wife and three sons.’
  • ‘The second son of a police chief, his duties began at cockcrow and included a strict daily fitness regime devised by his disciplinarian father.’
  • ‘Well, you'll have to show up at cockcrow tomorrow.’

  Synonyms

  dawn, daybreak, break of day, crack of dawn, sunrise, first light, first thing in the morning, early morning, cockcrow