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# cockerel

«cockerel» in Mova's school dictionary: **a young male chicken** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 3 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (a cockerel, cockerels)

### meaning for a pupil

1) A cockerel is a young male chicken. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cockerel/#m1)

2) In everyday speech it means any male chicken, a rooster. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cockerel/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

In farm stories, the cockerel crows «cock-a-doodle-doo» at dawn to wake everyone. In science, hens lay eggs; cockerels do not. In the UK «cockerel» is common; in the USA and Australia «rooster».

### examples

- The cockerel crowed at sunrise. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cockerel/#x1)
- Our cockerel has a red comb and a long tail. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cockerel/#x2)
- Hens lay eggs, but cockerels don't. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cockerel/#x3)
- The weathervane had a metal cockerel on top. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cockerel/#x4)
- The cockerel chased the cat out of the yard. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cockerel/#x5)
- Tottenham football club has a cockerel badge. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cockerel/#x6)

### note

Countable. US: rooster. Female: hen. Baby: chick. Cockerels crow at many times of the day, not only at dawn.

### In the corpora

- [Supermarket eggs never hatch because the hens live without a cockerel, and a hen lays about one egg a day.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/33-birds-feathers-wings-eggs-and-flight/9/)
- [The first hot-air balloon passengers, in 1783, were a sheep, a duck and a cockerel.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/chemistry/20-gases-all-around-breath-and-balloons/13/)
- [Mia's grandma in Georgia has a cockerel called Colonel who chases anyone in shorts.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/458-magpies-geese-ponies-and-swans-animals-that-are-not-your-friends/20/)

### Trees and pragmatics

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