Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun cows
1 sense of cows
Sense 1
cattle, cows, kine, oxen, Bos taurus -- (domesticated bovine animals as a group regardless of sex or age; "so many head of cattle"; "wait till the cows come home"; "seven thin and ill-favored kine"- Bible; "a team of oxen")
=> bovine -- (any of various members of the genus Bos)
Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun cow
3 senses of cow
Sense 1
cow, moo-cow -- (female of domestic cattle: "`moo-cow' is a child's term")
=> cattle, cows, kine, oxen, Bos taurus -- (domesticated bovine animals as a group regardless of sex or age; "so many head of cattle"; "wait till the cows come home"; "seven thin and ill-favored kine"- Bible; "a team of oxen")
Sense 2
cow -- (mature female of mammals of which the male is called `bull')
=> placental, placental mammal, eutherian, eutherian mammal -- (mammals having a placenta; all mammals except monotremes and marsupials)
Sense 3
cow -- (a large unpleasant woman)
=> unpleasant woman, disagreeable woman -- (a woman who is an unpleasant person)
Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of verb cow
1 sense of cow
Sense 1
overawe, cow -- (subdue, restrain, or overcome by affecting with a feeling of awe; frighten (as with threats))
=> awe -- (inspire awe in; "The famous professor awed the undergraduates")