crow

Reading level: hard

Estimated CEFR level: B1 — Intermediate

Estimated from word frequency; not an official CEFR classification.

Definition

  1. noun black birds having a raucous call
  2. noun the cry of a cock (or an imitation of it)
  3. noun a member of the Siouan people formerly living in eastern Montana

Etymology

From Middle English crowe, from Old English crāwe, from Proto-West Germanic *krāā, from Proto-Germanic *krēǭ (compare West Frisian krie, Dutch kraai, German Krähe), from *krēaną (“to crow”). See below.

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