Roost definition
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.
The bar in a chicken coop is an example of a roost.
- To have repercussions or aftereffects, especially unfavorable ones:The consequences of your mistake will eventually come home to roost.
- To be in charge; dominate:In this house my parents rule the roost.
- to have repercussions, esp. disagreeable ones; boomerang
- to be master
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