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chanticleer

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18
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21
Letters
11
Pronunciation
/ˈtʃɑːntɪˌklɪə/ (UK)
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/ˈtʃɑːntɪˌklɪə/ (UK) · /t͡ʃæntəˌklɪɹ/ (US) · /ˈʃæntəˌklɪɹ/ (US)

Definition of chanticleer

3 senses · 2 parts of speech · etymology included

noun

  1. (archaic, literary)A domestic rooster or cock, especially in fables and fairy tales.
    “When I did hear / The motley fool, thus moral on the time, / My lungs began to crow like chanticleer, / That fools should be so deep-contemplative[…].”
    “It is happily some particular sense that unto cockes or chanticleares discovereth the morning and midnight houre, and moveth them to crow[…].”
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noun

  1. (archaic, literary)A domestic rooster or cock, especially in fables and fairy tales.
    “When I did hear / The motley fool, thus moral on the time, / My lungs began to crow like chanticleer, / That fools should be so deep-contemplative[…].”
    “It is happily some particular sense that unto cockes or chanticleares discovereth the morning and midnight houre, and moveth them to crow[…].”

verb

  1. To make the crowing sound of a cock.
  2. To crow in exultation.

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Etymology

] From Middle English Chauntecleer, from Old French Chantecler (modern French Chanteclair), the proper name of the cock in the literary cycle of Reynard the Fox, that also gave origin to chantecler, the name of a chicken breed; from chanter (“to sing, to crow”) + cler (“clear, clearly”). Attested in English since 1250–1300.

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