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# caw

«caw» in Mova's school dictionary: **The loud harsh cry of a crow, rook or raven** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

verb (caw, caws, cawed, cawing); noun (a caw, caws)

### meaning for a pupil

1) The loud harsh cry of a crow, rook or raven. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/caw/#m1)

2) To make this sound. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/caw/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

In stories and nature lessons, crows caw from trees. Writers use «caw» as a sound word to set a spooky or wild scene.

### examples

- The crow cawed from the rooftop. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/caw/#x1)
- We heard the caw of a raven. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/caw/#x2)
- Rooks caw loudly in the evening. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/caw/#x3)
- «Caw! Caw!» went the crow. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/caw/#x4)
- The birds cawed when the cat came near. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/caw/#x5)
- A single caw broke the silence. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/caw/#x6)
- Caw! caw! a crow flew up from the ditch. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/caw/#x7)

### note

It is an onomatopoeia: the word sounds like the noise. Do not confuse with «core» or «cor» (UK slang for surprise), which sound similar in some accents.

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «caw» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/caw/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.