roc
[rok]
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noun Arabian Mythology.
a bird of enormous size and strength.
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Origin of roc
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Examples from the Web for roc
Contemporary Examples of roc
A Rochester (ROC) passenger approached a ticket counter to check in and stated to the ticket agent that he had a bomb in his bag.
Roc Nation did not respond to multiple requests to confirm that they had signed the rapper to their label.
Watch Jay-Z's "Roc Boys (And The Winner Is)..." music video.
Historical Examples of roc
There we found a roc's egg, equal in size to the one I had seen before.
Favorite Fairy TalesLogan Marshall
Times like these, a lump like a roc's egg would rise in the boy's throat.
They answered, 'By a touch of the gall of the Roc on his forehead.'
The Shaving of Shagpat, CompleteGeorge Meredith
His 2d lady had no child; was poysoned by the hands of Co. of Roc.
Brief Lives (Vol. 1 of 2)John Aubrey
It signifies 'thirty birds' and is thought to be the roc of the Arabs.
The Fairy MythologyThomas Keightley
roc
noun
Word Origin for roc
C16: from Arabic rukhkh, from Persian rukh
ROC
abbreviation for
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