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单词 crow
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crow

noun
/krəʊ/
/krəʊ/
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  1. a large bird, completely or mostly black, with a rough unpleasant call see also carrion crowTopics Birdsc1
    Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective
    • black
    • carrion
    … of crows
    • flock
    crow + verb
    • fly
    • perch
    • caw
    • …
    See full entry
  2. a sound like that of a rooster (= an adult male chicken) crowing
    • She gave a little crow of triumph.
    3. Word Originnoun sense 1 Old English crāwe, of West Germanic origin; related to Dutch kraai and German Krähe, also to the verb crow. noun sense 2 Old English crāwan, of West Germanic origin; related to German krähen, also to crow the bird; ultimately imitative.
Idioms
as the crow flies
  1. in a straight line
    • The villages are no more than a mile apart as the crow flies.
eat crow (North American English)
(also eat humble pie British and North American English)
  1. to say and show that you are sorry for a mistake that you made
stone the crows | stone me
  1. (British English, old-fashioned) used to express surprise, shock, anger, etc.

crow

verb
/krəʊ/
/krəʊ/
Verb Forms
present simple I / you / we / they crow
/krəʊ/
/krəʊ/
he / she / it crows
/krəʊz/
/krəʊz/
past simple crowed
/krəʊd/
/krəʊd/
past participle crowed
/krəʊd/
/krəʊd/
-ing form crowing
/ˈkrəʊɪŋ/
/ˈkrəʊɪŋ/
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  1. [intransitive] (of a rooster) to make repeated loud high sounds, especially early in the morning
    • A cock began to crow.
  2. [intransitive, transitive] (disapproving) to talk too proudly about something you have achieved, especially when somebody else has been unsuccessful synonym boast, gloat
    • crow (about/over something) He won't stop crowing about his victory.
    • + speech ‘I've won, I've won!’ she crowed.
    • crow that… He crowed that they had sold out in one day.
    Extra Examples
    • ‘I've won, I've won!’ she crowed triumphantly.
    • The company hasn't much to crow about, with sales down compared with last year.
    Topics Successc2
    Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadverb
    • triumphantly
    • with delight
    preposition
    • about
    • over
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  3. [intransitive] (British English) (of a baby) to make happy sounds
    • She gave the purse to Ruby, who crowed with delight.
    4. Word Originverb Old English crāwan, of West Germanic origin; related to German krähen, also to crow the bird; ultimately imitative.

Crow

noun
/krəʊ/
/krəʊ/
(plural Crow, Crows)
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  1. a member of a Native American people, many of whom live in the US state of Montana
    CultureThe Crow were hunters and grew tobacco. They helped the US Army against the Sioux people. Most Crows now live on a reservation (= land given and protected by the US government) in southern Montana.
    Word Originsuggested by French gens de corbeaux, translating Siouan apsáaloke ‘crow people’. Siouan is a family of North American Indian languages.
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