CROW

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Crow mean? 

• CROW (noun)
  The noun CROW has 6 senses:

1. black birds having a raucous call

2. the cry of a cock (or an imitation of it)

3. a member of the Siouan people formerly living in eastern Montana

4. a small quadrilateral constellation in the southern hemisphere near Virgo

5. an instance of boastful talk

6. a Siouan language spoken by the Crow

  Familiarity information: CROW used as a noun is common.

• CROW (verb)
  The verb CROW has 3 senses:

1. dwell on with satisfaction

2. express pleasure verbally

3. utter shrill sounds

  Familiarity information: CROW used as a verb is uncommon.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CROW (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Black birds having a raucous call

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

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

corvine bird (birds of the crow family)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "crow"):

American crow; Corvus brachyrhyncos (common crow of North America)

Holonyms ("crow" is a member of...):

Corvus; genus Corvus (type genus of the Corvidae: crows and ravens)

Sense 2

Meaning:

The cry of a cock (or an imitation of it)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural events

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

cry (the characteristic utterance of an animal)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "crow"):

cock-a-doodle-doo (an imitation of the crow of a cock)

Derivation:

crow (utter shrill sounds)

Sense 3

Meaning:

A member of the Siouan people formerly living in eastern Montana

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

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

Siouan; Sioux (a member of a group of North American Indian peoples who spoke a Siouan language and who ranged from Lake Michigan to the Rocky Mountains)

Sense 4

Meaning:

A small quadrilateral constellation in the southern hemisphere near Virgo

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural objects (not man-made)

Synonyms:

Corvus; Crow

Instance hypernyms:

constellation (a configuration of stars as seen from the earth)

Sense 5

Meaning:

An instance of boastful talk

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Synonyms:

brag; bragging; crow; crowing; gasconade; line-shooting; vaporing

Context example:

whenever he won we were exposed to his gasconade

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

boast; boasting; jactitation; self-praise (speaking of yourself in superlatives)

Derivation:

crow (dwell on with satisfaction)

Sense 6

Meaning:

A Siouan language spoken by the Crow

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

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

Siouan; Siouan language (a family of North American Indian languages spoken by the Sioux)

• CROW (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they crow    ... he / she / it crows   
Past simple: crew    / crowed   
Past participle: crowed   
-ing form: crowing   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Dwell on with satisfaction

Classified under:

Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing

Synonyms:

crow; gloat; triumph

Hypernyms (to "crow" is one way to...):

blow; bluster; boast; brag; gas; gasconade; shoot a line; swash; tout; vaunt (show off)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "crow"):

congratulate; preen (pride or congratulate (oneself) for an achievement)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s
Somebody ----s PP
Somebody ----s that CLAUSE

Sentence example:

Sam and Sue crow over the results of the experiment

Derivation:

crow; crowing (an instance of boastful talk)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Express pleasure verbally

Classified under:

Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing

Context example:

She crowed with joy

Hypernyms (to "crow" is one way to...):

emit; let loose; let out; utter (express audibly; utter sounds (not necessarily words))

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s PP
Somebody ----s that CLAUSE

Derivation:

crowing (an instance of boastful talk)

Sense 3

Meaning:

Utter shrill sounds

Classified under:

Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing

Context example:

The cocks crowed all morning

Hypernyms (to "crow" is one way to...):

emit; let loose; let out; utter (express audibly; utter sounds (not necessarily words))

Sentence frame:

Something ----s

Derivation:

crow (the cry of a cock (or an imitation of it))

 Context examples 

The crew were a set of ruffians, specially picked for the job.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Even he, perhaps, had been doubtful as to the crew, but that is only guess, for as you shall hear, we had not long the benefit of his opinion.

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

Be ready, I pray ye, at early cock-crow.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

He had been a member of the crew of the smuggling schooner Halcyon when she was captured by a revenue cutter.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

Six of the crew, of whom I was one, having let down the boat into the sea, made a shift to get clear of the ship and the rock.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

After the crows had gone I thought this over, and decided I would try hard to get some brains.

(The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, by L. Frank Baum)

It was bottom up, and there was no sign of its crew.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

The crew had thought she would founder and had made for the Norwegian coast in the dinghy.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

And again the princess was compelled to do servant’s work until cock-crow.

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)

It’s the infernal plan of turning a crew over from ship to ship and leaving the officers behind that rots the Navy.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)