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cox

name · noun · verb · 11 senses · updated from the 2026-07-25 local source snapshot

Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.

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Pronunciation

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  • UK: /kɒks/
  • Southern-England: Recorded audio is listed in the source snapshot.
  • US: käks
  • US: /kɑks/
  • rhymes with -ɒks
  • homophone: cocks
  • CMU ARPABET: K AA1 K S Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.

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name

Meaning 1

An English surname from Middle English for either son of, or servant of someone named Cocke or Cook.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

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name

Meaning 2

An unincorporated community in Calhoun County, Florida, United States.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

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name

Meaning 3

An unincorporated community in Macon County, Missouri, United States.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

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name

Meaning 4

A commune in Haute-Garonne department, Occitania, France; the name comes from Occitan.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

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name

Meaning 5

A municipality in the province of Alicante, Valencia, Spain.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

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noun

Meaning 6

A coxswain of a boat, especially of a racing crew.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

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noun

Meaning 7

Acronym of cyclooxygenase.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: abbreviation, acronym, alt-of

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verb

Meaning 8

To act as coxswain for.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: ambitransitive

Examples

  • The physicist Stephen Hawking used to cox for a college rowing team.
  • I coxed the lightweight 4+ yesterday.

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noun

Meaning 9

the helmsman of a ship's boat or a racing crew

Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0

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Synonyms: coxswain

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Broader terms: helmsman, steersman, steerer

10

noun

Meaning 10

either of two related enzymes that control the production of prostaglandins and are blocked by aspirin

Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0

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Synonyms: cyclooxygenase

Antonyms: none provided

Broader terms: enzyme

Narrower terms: cyclooxygenase-1, Cox-1, cyclooxygenase-2, Cox-2

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verb

Meaning 11

act as the coxswain, in a boat race

Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0

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Broader terms: be, follow

History

Etymology

The surname has converged from several different origins; see Cox.

Clipping of coxswain.