Definition of caw in English:

caw

noun kɔːkɔ

The harsh cry of a rook, crow, or similar bird.
Example sentencesExamples
- As I entered the park just beyond the lane, my thoughts were again interrupted, this time by a short series of caws coming from three crows flying overhead.
- Breeding adults may emit caws, sighs or hissing calls.
- A raven cried from a tree top, its caw echoing over a beaver-meadow of scarlet pitcher plants.
- Similarly her voice possesses a strange avian quality somewhere between a dulcet caw, a folk drawl and that associated with young children.
- She heard caws and shrieks, but she didn't have time to try to analyze all of them.
- Crows crept over the shreds of flesh, silent but for the flapping out of black wings and a few angry caws.
- Instead I was met with the harsh caw of a crow, breaking the eerie silence.
- The bird seemed to answer this time, with another caw.
- Closing her eyes and trying to sleep, she suddenly heard the familiar caw of a crow from above in the tree.
- Didn't get much birding in this weekend as a result of the closet ordeal but I did notice that a blue jay in our neighborhood is mimicking the crows very well, only its caws are much softer and a bit rapid - impressive nonetheless.
- A caw sounded and she looked up to see a large crow sitting on a bright streetlamp.
- Young himself appears to favor not the lofty melodies of tradition's songbirds but the crows' familiar caw caw.
- A large raven sat perched upon the fence and gave a loud, obnoxious caw.
- Not for her, of course, left swinging in a cave to the caw of crows, but so the rest of us can go on.
- He could just make out tropical birds flitting from tree to tree their faint caws echoing up from the valley.
- The crow's caw is much more harsh and resonant than that of the rook.
- The ground was hard and brown and rocky, parched, but the caw of birds from a nearby grove of olive trees muted the sound of my footsteps.
- For example, in Disneyland there are fake birds worked by electric motors which emit caws and shrieks as you pass by them.
- The sound of caws resonated through the forest.
- Otherworldly caws, a sound they produce only when they are at sea, enable the sociable birds to maintain contact even in stormy conditions.
Synonyms
screech, squeal, shriek, scream, croak, crow, caw, cluck, clack, cackle, hoot, cry, call

verb kɔːkɔ

[no object]

Utter a caw.
rooks cawed in the dark trees
Example sentencesExamples
- A great flock of multicoloured tropical birds burst forth from the depths of the jungle, cawing and squawking as they rose ever higher into the air.
- It's like having a crow caw constantly in your ear at noon every weekday, and then suddenly being told that it's going to be replaced with something else.
- At dawn, just when one has forgotten about him for a minute and dozed off, a crow caws loudly.
- Rooks caw in the trees, jackdaws nest in their new chimney, sparrows feed on neighbours' tables.
- Somewhere a crow caws, and in the far distance those black birds endlessly circle a spot on the western edge of the world.
- In one funeral scene, not only does the coffin break open to reveal the corpse, but also a black crow begins ominously cawing.
- A raven cawed as the light began to fade and the wind partially subsided.
- The crow landed on her shoulder and cawed again.
- Outside, Lindsay thought he heard a crow cawing.
- Something in the tall trees by the pavilion was cawing raucously.
- The bell has tolled, the crow has cawed in ominous overtones, there's been a dark and stormy night, and now finally we know the results of the election.
- A giant parrot flies up and lands on my shoulder and caws because he hasn't learned to talk yet.
- Branches against the window creak and caw in the wind like birds.
- They aren't cawing; no, that would be creepy enough because I hate crows as it is.
- She looked over to the window and saw a midnight crow sitting on the balcony, cawing arrogantly.
- They took off, cawing as they flew towards the rising sun.
- Thrushes sing in the green shrubbery; rooks caw in the elms.
- Sometimes when they fly over me they look me in the eye and caw.
- Startled birds fluttered out of their black recesses; crows awoke in the trees and cawed their alarms.
- The crows are great as harbingers of spring but wear out their welcome quickly by shamelessly eating songbird eggs and cawing endlessly about absolutely nothing on the oaks surrounding my yard.
- On one of the lightning rods, a crow sits and caws.
- But it's also a rustic idyll - an extensively renovated old style estate cottage in the middle of a copse of tall tree where rooks caw incessantly in the Spring sunshine.
Synonyms
screech, squeal, shriek, scream, croak, crow, caw, cluck, clack, cackle, hoot, cry, call

Origin

Late 16th century: imitative.

Rhymes

abhor, adore, afore, anymore, ashore, awe, bandore, Bangalore, before, boar, Boer, bore, chore, claw, cocksure, comprador, cor, core, corps, craw, Delors, deplore, door, draw, drawer, evermore, explore, flaw, floor, for, forbore, fore, foresaw, forevermore, forswore, four, fourscore, furthermore, Gábor, galore, gnaw, gore, grantor, guarantor, guffaw, hard-core, Haugh, haw, hoar, ignore, implore, Indore, interwar, jaw, Johor, Lahore, law, lessor, lor, lore, macaw, man-o'-war, maw, mirador, mor, more, mortgagor, Mysore, nevermore, nor, oar, obligor, offshore, onshore, open-jaw, or, ore, outdoor, outwore, paw, poor, pore, pour, rapport, raw, roar, saw, scaur, score, senhor, señor, shaw, ship-to-shore, shop-floor, shore, signor, Singapore, snore, soar, softcore, sore, spore, store, straw, swore, Tagore, tau, taw, thaw, Thor, threescore, tor, tore, torr, trapdoor, tug-of-war, two-by-four, underfloor, underscore, war, warrantor, Waugh, whore, withdraw, wore, yaw, yore, your

Definition of caw in US English:

caw

nounkɔkô

The harsh cry of a crow or similar bird.
Example sentencesExamples
- A raven cried from a tree top, its caw echoing over a beaver-meadow of scarlet pitcher plants.
- Young himself appears to favor not the lofty melodies of tradition's songbirds but the crows' familiar caw caw.
- The ground was hard and brown and rocky, parched, but the caw of birds from a nearby grove of olive trees muted the sound of my footsteps.
- The crow's caw is much more harsh and resonant than that of the rook.
- Breeding adults may emit caws, sighs or hissing calls.
- He could just make out tropical birds flitting from tree to tree their faint caws echoing up from the valley.
- The bird seemed to answer this time, with another caw.
- Crows crept over the shreds of flesh, silent but for the flapping out of black wings and a few angry caws.
- Instead I was met with the harsh caw of a crow, breaking the eerie silence.
- A caw sounded and she looked up to see a large crow sitting on a bright streetlamp.
- A large raven sat perched upon the fence and gave a loud, obnoxious caw.
- Similarly her voice possesses a strange avian quality somewhere between a dulcet caw, a folk drawl and that associated with young children.
- For example, in Disneyland there are fake birds worked by electric motors which emit caws and shrieks as you pass by them.
- She heard caws and shrieks, but she didn't have time to try to analyze all of them.
- Closing her eyes and trying to sleep, she suddenly heard the familiar caw of a crow from above in the tree.
- The sound of caws resonated through the forest.
- Otherworldly caws, a sound they produce only when they are at sea, enable the sociable birds to maintain contact even in stormy conditions.
- Not for her, of course, left swinging in a cave to the caw of crows, but so the rest of us can go on.
- Didn't get much birding in this weekend as a result of the closet ordeal but I did notice that a blue jay in our neighborhood is mimicking the crows very well, only its caws are much softer and a bit rapid - impressive nonetheless.
- As I entered the park just beyond the lane, my thoughts were again interrupted, this time by a short series of caws coming from three crows flying overhead.
Synonyms
screech, squeal, shriek, scream, croak, crow, caw, cluck, clack, cackle, hoot, cry, call

verbkɔkô

[no object]

Utter a caw.
rooks cawed in the dark trees
Example sentencesExamples
- Rooks caw in the trees, jackdaws nest in their new chimney, sparrows feed on neighbours' tables.
- They took off, cawing as they flew towards the rising sun.
- A raven cawed as the light began to fade and the wind partially subsided.
- Startled birds fluttered out of their black recesses; crows awoke in the trees and cawed their alarms.
- Thrushes sing in the green shrubbery; rooks caw in the elms.
- Outside, Lindsay thought he heard a crow cawing.
- Branches against the window creak and caw in the wind like birds.
- On one of the lightning rods, a crow sits and caws.
- Sometimes when they fly over me they look me in the eye and caw.
- The bell has tolled, the crow has cawed in ominous overtones, there's been a dark and stormy night, and now finally we know the results of the election.
- At dawn, just when one has forgotten about him for a minute and dozed off, a crow caws loudly.
- The crows are great as harbingers of spring but wear out their welcome quickly by shamelessly eating songbird eggs and cawing endlessly about absolutely nothing on the oaks surrounding my yard.
- A great flock of multicoloured tropical birds burst forth from the depths of the jungle, cawing and squawking as they rose ever higher into the air.
- They aren't cawing; no, that would be creepy enough because I hate crows as it is.
- But it's also a rustic idyll - an extensively renovated old style estate cottage in the middle of a copse of tall tree where rooks caw incessantly in the Spring sunshine.
- She looked over to the window and saw a midnight crow sitting on the balcony, cawing arrogantly.
- The crow landed on her shoulder and cawed again.
- Somewhere a crow caws, and in the far distance those black birds endlessly circle a spot on the western edge of the world.
- In one funeral scene, not only does the coffin break open to reveal the corpse, but also a black crow begins ominously cawing.
- It's like having a crow caw constantly in your ear at noon every weekday, and then suddenly being told that it's going to be replaced with something else.
- A giant parrot flies up and lands on my shoulder and caws because he hasn't learned to talk yet.
- Something in the tall trees by the pavilion was cawing raucously.
Synonyms
screech, squeal, shriek, scream, croak, crow, caw, cluck, clack, cackle, hoot, cry, call

Origin

Late 16th century: imitative.

单词	caw
释义	Definition of caw in English: caw noun kɔːkɔ The harsh cry of a rook, crow, or similar bird. Example sentencesExamples As I entered the park just beyond the lane, my thoughts were again interrupted, this time by a short series of caws coming from three crows flying overhead. Breeding adults may emit caws, sighs or hissing calls. A raven cried from a tree top, its caw echoing over a beaver-meadow of scarlet pitcher plants. Similarly her voice possesses a strange avian quality somewhere between a dulcet caw, a folk drawl and that associated with young children. She heard caws and shrieks, but she didn't have time to try to analyze all of them. Crows crept over the shreds of flesh, silent but for the flapping out of black wings and a few angry caws. Instead I was met with the harsh caw of a crow, breaking the eerie silence. The bird seemed to answer this time, with another caw. Closing her eyes and trying to sleep, she suddenly heard the familiar caw of a crow from above in the tree. Didn't get much birding in this weekend as a result of the closet ordeal but I did notice that a blue jay in our neighborhood is mimicking the crows very well, only its caws are much softer and a bit rapid - impressive nonetheless. A caw sounded and she looked up to see a large crow sitting on a bright streetlamp. Young himself appears to favor not the lofty melodies of tradition's songbirds but the crows' familiar caw caw. A large raven sat perched upon the fence and gave a loud, obnoxious caw. Not for her, of course, left swinging in a cave to the caw of crows, but so the rest of us can go on. He could just make out tropical birds flitting from tree to tree their faint caws echoing up from the valley. The crow's caw is much more harsh and resonant than that of the rook. The ground was hard and brown and rocky, parched, but the caw of birds from a nearby grove of olive trees muted the sound of my footsteps. For example, in Disneyland there are fake birds worked by electric motors which emit caws and shrieks as you pass by them. The sound of caws resonated through the forest. Otherworldly caws, a sound they produce only when they are at sea, enable the sociable birds to maintain contact even in stormy conditions. Synonyms screech, squeal, shriek, scream, croak, crow, caw, cluck, clack, cackle, hoot, cry, call verb kɔːkɔ [no object] Utter a caw. rooks cawed in the dark trees Example sentencesExamples A great flock of multicoloured tropical birds burst forth from the depths of the jungle, cawing and squawking as they rose ever higher into the air. It's like having a crow caw constantly in your ear at noon every weekday, and then suddenly being told that it's going to be replaced with something else. At dawn, just when one has forgotten about him for a minute and dozed off, a crow caws loudly. Rooks caw in the trees, jackdaws nest in their new chimney, sparrows feed on neighbours' tables. Somewhere a crow caws, and in the far distance those black birds endlessly circle a spot on the western edge of the world. In one funeral scene, not only does the coffin break open to reveal the corpse, but also a black crow begins ominously cawing. A raven cawed as the light began to fade and the wind partially subsided. The crow landed on her shoulder and cawed again. Outside, Lindsay thought he heard a crow cawing. Something in the tall trees by the pavilion was cawing raucously. The bell has tolled, the crow has cawed in ominous overtones, there's been a dark and stormy night, and now finally we know the results of the election. A giant parrot flies up and lands on my shoulder and caws because he hasn't learned to talk yet. Branches against the window creak and caw in the wind like birds. They aren't cawing; no, that would be creepy enough because I hate crows as it is. She looked over to the window and saw a midnight crow sitting on the balcony, cawing arrogantly. They took off, cawing as they flew towards the rising sun. Thrushes sing in the green shrubbery; rooks caw in the elms. Sometimes when they fly over me they look me in the eye and caw. Startled birds fluttered out of their black recesses; crows awoke in the trees and cawed their alarms. The crows are great as harbingers of spring but wear out their welcome quickly by shamelessly eating songbird eggs and cawing endlessly about absolutely nothing on the oaks surrounding my yard. On one of the lightning rods, a crow sits and caws. But it's also a rustic idyll - an extensively renovated old style estate cottage in the middle of a copse of tall tree where rooks caw incessantly in the Spring sunshine. Synonyms screech, squeal, shriek, scream, croak, crow, caw, cluck, clack, cackle, hoot, cry, call Origin Late 16th century: imitative. Rhymes abhor, adore, afore, anymore, ashore, awe, bandore, Bangalore, before, boar, Boer, bore, chore, claw, cocksure, comprador, cor, core, corps, craw, Delors, deplore, door, draw, drawer, evermore, explore, flaw, floor, for, forbore, fore, foresaw, forevermore, forswore, four, fourscore, furthermore, Gábor, galore, gnaw, gore, grantor, guarantor, guffaw, hard-core, Haugh, haw, hoar, ignore, implore, Indore, interwar, jaw, Johor, Lahore, law, lessor, lor, lore, macaw, man-o'-war, maw, mirador, mor, more, mortgagor, Mysore, nevermore, nor, oar, obligor, offshore, onshore, open-jaw, or, ore, outdoor, outwore, paw, poor, pore, pour, rapport, raw, roar, saw, scaur, score, senhor, señor, shaw, ship-to-shore, shop-floor, shore, signor, Singapore, snore, soar, softcore, sore, spore, store, straw, swore, Tagore, tau, taw, thaw, Thor, threescore, tor, tore, torr, trapdoor, tug-of-war, two-by-four, underfloor, underscore, war, warrantor, Waugh, whore, withdraw, wore, yaw, yore, your Definition of caw in US English: caw nounkɔkô The harsh cry of a crow or similar bird. Example sentencesExamples A raven cried from a tree top, its caw echoing over a beaver-meadow of scarlet pitcher plants. Young himself appears to favor not the lofty melodies of tradition's songbirds but the crows' familiar caw caw. The ground was hard and brown and rocky, parched, but the caw of birds from a nearby grove of olive trees muted the sound of my footsteps. The crow's caw is much more harsh and resonant than that of the rook. Breeding adults may emit caws, sighs or hissing calls. He could just make out tropical birds flitting from tree to tree their faint caws echoing up from the valley. The bird seemed to answer this time, with another caw. Crows crept over the shreds of flesh, silent but for the flapping out of black wings and a few angry caws. Instead I was met with the harsh caw of a crow, breaking the eerie silence. A caw sounded and she looked up to see a large crow sitting on a bright streetlamp. A large raven sat perched upon the fence and gave a loud, obnoxious caw. Similarly her voice possesses a strange avian quality somewhere between a dulcet caw, a folk drawl and that associated with young children. For example, in Disneyland there are fake birds worked by electric motors which emit caws and shrieks as you pass by them. She heard caws and shrieks, but she didn't have time to try to analyze all of them. Closing her eyes and trying to sleep, she suddenly heard the familiar caw of a crow from above in the tree. The sound of caws resonated through the forest. Otherworldly caws, a sound they produce only when they are at sea, enable the sociable birds to maintain contact even in stormy conditions. Not for her, of course, left swinging in a cave to the caw of crows, but so the rest of us can go on. Didn't get much birding in this weekend as a result of the closet ordeal but I did notice that a blue jay in our neighborhood is mimicking the crows very well, only its caws are much softer and a bit rapid - impressive nonetheless. As I entered the park just beyond the lane, my thoughts were again interrupted, this time by a short series of caws coming from three crows flying overhead. Synonyms screech, squeal, shriek, scream, croak, crow, caw, cluck, clack, cackle, hoot, cry, call verbkɔkô [no object] Utter a caw. rooks cawed in the dark trees Example sentencesExamples Rooks caw in the trees, jackdaws nest in their new chimney, sparrows feed on neighbours' tables. They took off, cawing as they flew towards the rising sun. A raven cawed as the light began to fade and the wind partially subsided. Startled birds fluttered out of their black recesses; crows awoke in the trees and cawed their alarms. Thrushes sing in the green shrubbery; rooks caw in the elms. Outside, Lindsay thought he heard a crow cawing. Branches against the window creak and caw in the wind like birds. On one of the lightning rods, a crow sits and caws. Sometimes when they fly over me they look me in the eye and caw. The bell has tolled, the crow has cawed in ominous overtones, there's been a dark and stormy night, and now finally we know the results of the election. At dawn, just when one has forgotten about him for a minute and dozed off, a crow caws loudly. The crows are great as harbingers of spring but wear out their welcome quickly by shamelessly eating songbird eggs and cawing endlessly about absolutely nothing on the oaks surrounding my yard. A great flock of multicoloured tropical birds burst forth from the depths of the jungle, cawing and squawking as they rose ever higher into the air. They aren't cawing; no, that would be creepy enough because I hate crows as it is. But it's also a rustic idyll - an extensively renovated old style estate cottage in the middle of a copse of tall tree where rooks caw incessantly in the Spring sunshine. She looked over to the window and saw a midnight crow sitting on the balcony, cawing arrogantly. The crow landed on her shoulder and cawed again. Somewhere a crow caws, and in the far distance those black birds endlessly circle a spot on the western edge of the world. In one funeral scene, not only does the coffin break open to reveal the corpse, but also a black crow begins ominously cawing. It's like having a crow caw constantly in your ear at noon every weekday, and then suddenly being told that it's going to be replaced with something else. A giant parrot flies up and lands on my shoulder and caws because he hasn't learned to talk yet. Something in the tall trees by the pavilion was cawing raucously. Synonyms screech, squeal, shriek, scream, croak, crow, caw, cluck, clack, cackle, hoot, cry, call Origin Late 16th century: imitative.
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