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cows

cows

2 1.0
Animals kept on farms for milk or meat
  • noun
  • /kaʊz/
translation icon : vacas
  • The dairy barn is home to many cows and their calves.

More people are killed each year by cows than they are by sharks.

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Examples

  • They are Val Di Chiana Cows.

  • I ran barefoot through cow fields as a kid, through creeks.

  • And so we need to change cows, just cows alone.

  • So I chose the path like around the cows and that took a lot longer.

  • It's not like they got cheaper cows somewhere, right?

  • So they would feed the cows mangoes.

  • My understanding is those cows don't move around much.

  • Large billboards showing cows that urge people to eat more chicken.

  • We know cats, dogs, cows, pigs, goats, sheep.

  • So this would be cows, sheep, goats, venison.

Synonyms

cattle
vscows
335 1.0

Large farm animals like cows and bulls that farmers keep for milk, meat, or work

is the general group name without stressing their use
kine
vscows
  • Archaic
1 9.9

An old word for a group of cows or cattle

is the modern general term used today

Idioms

3 8.5

For a very long time that seems to never end

Surface Forms

cow singular
cows plural

Morphology

cows = cow (transparent) = cow + s

Regular plural formation with the productive suffix '-s'; meaning is a straightforward plural of 'cow'.

Etymology

Cows comes from an old English word , which simply meant 'cow' and is like German Kuh and Dutch koe. So cows has long been the name for the large farm animal kept for milk and meat.