cow
- noun
- /kaʊ/
- The farmer watched as the cow grazed peacefully in the field.
- cow's milk
- dairy cows
- cows on a farm
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Watch on YouTubeNow, is the beef from that cow tender and juicy?
- Now, is the beef from that cow tender and juicy?
- Exactly what part of the cow does the liver come from?
- A farm farmer milked a cow by hand.
- If you were wealthy, you brought a cow, an ox.
- And a stainless steel tank is neither a cow nor a chicken, right?
- It's not like delivering a baby cow, but you can.
- Picture me out in space with my spherical cow next to me.
- So we're going to slide our cow down this ramp.
Examples
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On day 7, all 14 cows on farm 1 were sick.
Academic text (2012) -
So it's a little white cow, but obviously inside.
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Exactly what part of the cow does the liver come from?
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I always thought milking a cow would be fun, till I tried it.
Fiction book (1990) -
A farm farmer milked a cow by hand.
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Now, is the beef from that cow tender and juicy?
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Cheese could be made from cow, sheep or goat's milk.
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I started noticing that the cow was laying down and having labor pains.
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Every morning, she milks the cow before breakfast.
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The cow is known for producing milk that can be turned into cheese.
Synonyms
A cow kept to give milk for people to drink
A cow that is kept mainly to give milk
A child's word for a cow on a farm
A cow that people keep and raise to produce milk
Idioms
Compounds
- Specialized
A deadly disease of cows that damages the brain and can make people sick if they eat the meat
- Offensive
A college that teaches farming and is often called low quality as an insult
- Jargon
A very simple model that ignores real details to explain something, often as a joke
- UK
A tall plant with clusters of small white flowers that grows wild by roads and fields
- US
A tall wild plant with thick stems and white or purple flower groups that can irritate your skin
- US
A medium to large tree that grows in eastern United States with strong wood for baskets and chair seats
- UK
A small European annual plant with pale pink flowers that often grows as a weed in grain fields
- US
A water plant with broad floating leaves and round yellow flowers that grows in quiet ponds
- Specialized
A fern with long flat pale green leaves that grows on trees or on the ground in warm places
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Etymology
Cow goes back to very old Germanic words that simply named the animal and meant a 'female' of cattle, so the word has kept that basic meaning for centuries.