• (RP) IPA: /kɹəʊ/
• (America) enPR: krō, IPA: /kɹoʊ/

crow (plural crows)

1. A bird, usually black, of the genus Corvus, having a strong conical beak, with projecting bristles; it has a harsh, croaking call.
2. The cry of the rooster.

   Synonyms: cock-a-doodle-doo

3. Any of various dark-coloured nymphalid butterflies of the genus Euploea.
4. A bar of iron with a beak, crook, or claw; a bar of iron used as a lever; a crowbar.

   Synonyms: crowbar

5. (historical) A gangplank (corvus#Latin|corvus) used by the Ancient Roman navy to board enemy ships.
6. (among butchers) The mesentery of an animal.
7. (ethnic slur, offensive, slang) A black person.

• crow eater
• eat crow

• French: corneille, corbeau
• German: Krähe, Krähenvogel
• Italian: cornacchia, corvo
• Portuguese: gralha-preta, corvo
• Russian: воро́на
• Spanish: corneja, cuervo

• French: pied-de-biche
• German: Brecheisen, Nageleisen, Brechstange, Kuhfuß, Hebeleisen
• Italian: piede di porco
• Portuguese: pé de cabra
• Spanish: palanca

• French: chant
• German: Krähen
• Portuguese: canto
• Spanish: cacareo

crow (crows, present participle crowing; past crowed, past participle crowed)

1. (intransitive) To make#Verb|make the shrill#Adjective|shrill sound#Noun|sound characteristic of a rooster; to make a sound in this manner, either in gaiety, joy, pleasure#Noun|pleasure, or defiance.
   • c. 1599–1602, William Shake-speare, The Tragicall Historie of Hamlet, Prince of Denmarke: […] (First Quarto), London: Printed [by Valentine Simmes] for N[icholas] L[ing] and Iohn Trundell, published 1603, OCLC 84758312 ↗, [Act I, scene ii] ↗:

     Yet once me thought it [the ghost of Hamlet's father] was about to ſpeake, / And lifted vp his head to motion, / Like as he would ſpeake, but euen the / The morning cocke crew lowd, and in all haſte / It ſhrunke in haſte away, and vaniſhed / Our ſight.

   • 1847, Alfred Tennyson, The Princess: A Medley, London: Edward Moxon, […], OCLC 2024748 ↗, part II, page 37 ↗:

     'You are that Psyche' Cyril said again / 'The mother of the sweetest little maid, / That ever crow'd for kisses.'

   • 1869 May, Anthony Trollope, “Lady Milborough as Ambassador”, in He Knew He Was Right, volume I, London: Strahan and Company, publishers, […], OCLC 1118026626 ↗, page 87 ↗:

   • 1913, D[avid] H[erbert] Lawrence, chapter III, in Sons and Lovers, London: Duckworth & Co. […], OCLC 855945 ↗, page 48 ↗:

     Hearing the miner's footsteps, the baby would put up his arms and crow.

2. (intransitive) To shout#Verb|shout in exultation or defiance; to brag#Verb|brag.

   He’s been crowing all day about winning the game of cards.

3. (intransitive, music) To test#Verb|test the reed of a double reed instrument by place#Verb|placing the reed alone in the mouth#Noun|mouth and blow#Verb|blowing it.

• French: chanter
• German: krähen
• Portuguese: cantar
• Russian: кукаре́кать
• Spanish: cacarear

• German: jauchzen, juchzen, jubeln, jubilieren, frohlocken, johlen

• German: krähen, herauskrähen, jubilieren, jubeln, protzen, triumphieren
• Russian: бахвалиться

• enPR: krō, IPA: /kɹoʊ/

crow (plural crows)

1. A member of a Native American tribe of southern Montana.

   Synonyms: Crow Indian

1. The Siouan language of this tribe.

   Synonyms: Absaroki

1. Surname