Roost definition
A place where winged animals, especially birds or bats, rest or sleep.
noun
To roost is to sleep on a perch, or to stay the night.
A hen sleeping on a bar in her pen is an example of roost.
An example of roost is to stay in a hotel overnight.
verb
The definition of a roost is a place or elevated perch where birds rest or sleep.
The bar in a chicken coop is an example of a roost.
noun
A group of animals in a roost.
noun
To rest or sleep on a perch or in a roost.
verb
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To rest or sleep.
verb
A perch on which birds, esp. domestic fowls, can rest or sleep.
noun
A place with perches for birds.
noun
A place for resting, sleeping, etc.
noun
To rest, sit, sleep, etc. on a perch.
verb
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To stay or settle down, as for the night.
verb
A group of birds roosting together.
noun
To come back home.
verb
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A place for temporary rest or sleep.
noun
come home to roost
- To have repercussions or aftereffects, especially unfavorable ones:The consequences of your mistake will eventually come home to roost.
idiom
(informal) rule the roost
- To be in charge; dominate:In this house my parents rule the roost.
idiom
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come home to roost
- to have repercussions, esp. disagreeable ones; boomerang
idiom
rule the roost
- to be master
idiom
Idioms and Phrasal Verbs
Origin of roost
- Middle English rooste from Old English hrōst
From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition
- From Old English hrōst.
From Wiktionary
- From Old Norse rōst
From Wiktionary