chanticleer
Dawn-announcing fowl
Chanticleer is a literary or poetic name for a rooster, from the medieval beast fable tradition where animals had proper names.
The word suggests a proud, loud cock crowing at dawn: The chanticleer announced the morning.
It appears most famously in Chaucer's tale of a rooster outwitting a fox.
The name is now rare outside literary contexts.
Area around farm buildings
- henhousePoultry dwelling
- poultryBirds raised for food
- combToothed grooming implement
- wattlesFleshy throat appendages
feathers · plumage · coop · crowing · cockerel · bantam · brood · pecking
Day's first glow
- sunriseMorning light's arrival
- daybreakMorning's first light
- reveilleMilitary dawn summons
- morningDay's early hours
heralding · announcing · awakening · trumpeting · vocalizing · cock-a-doodle-doo · sounding · calling
Ancient Greek fable writer
- moralityRight and wrong principles
- allegorySymbolic tale with deeper meaning
- parableInstructive allegorical narrative
- taleSpoken or written narrative
anthropomorphism · didactic · cautionary · lesson · wisdom · folklore · narrative · personification
- medievalOf the Middle Ages
- satireMockery exposing vice
- mock-heroicSatirizing epic conventions
- vernacularEveryday regional speech
Excessive pride in oneself
- hubrisRuinous excessive confidence
- arroganceExcessive self-importance
- boastfulnessExcessive pride in oneself
- pompousnessSelf-important display of grandeur
self-importance · conceit · swagger · braggadocio · haughtiness · smugness · flattery · gullibility
farmyard
Area around farm buildings
wattles · feathers · plumage · coop · crowing · cockerel · bantam · brood · pecking · scratch
dawn
Day's first glow
morning · heralding · announcing · awakening · trumpeting · vocalizing · cock-a-doodle-doo · sounding · calling · proclamation
Aesop
Ancient Greek fable writer
- moralityRight and wrong principles
- allegorySymbolic tale with deeper meaning
- parableInstructive allegorical narrative
tale · anthropomorphism · didactic · cautionary · lesson · wisdom · folklore · narrative · personification · Reynard
Chaucer
- medievalOf the Middle Ages
- satireMockery exposing vice
- mock-heroicSatirizing epic conventions
vanity
Excessive pride in oneself
- hubrisRuinous excessive confidence
- arroganceExcessive self-importance
- boastfulnessExcessive pride in oneself
pompousness · self-importance · conceit · swagger · braggadocio · haughtiness · smugness · flattery · gullibility · downfall
chanticleerowl
Nocturnal feathered predator
nightingale · night bird · evening star · dusk · twilight
clear, singer, chant, rooster, chanting, songster, cantor, canticle, chanter