Roost meaning

ro͝ost
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
0
0
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
0
0
A place where winged animals, especially birds or bats, rest or sleep.
noun
0
0
A group of animals in a roost.
noun
0
0
A place for temporary rest or sleep.
noun
0
0
Advertisement
To rest or sleep on a perch or in a roost.
verb
0
0
To rest or sleep.
verb
0
0
A perch on which birds, esp. domestic fowls, can rest or sleep.
noun
0
0
A place with perches for birds.
noun
0
0
A place for resting, sleeping, etc.
noun
0
0
Advertisement
To rest, sit, sleep, etc. on a perch.
verb
0
0
To stay or settle down, as for the night.
verb
0
0
The place where a bird sleeps (usually its nest or a branch).
noun
0
0
A group of birds roosting together.
noun
0
0
(of birds) Sleep.
verb
0
0
Advertisement
To come back home.
verb
0
0
(UK, Shetland and Orkney) A tidal race.
noun
0
0
Alternative form of roust.
verb
0
0

Origin of roost

Middle English rooste from Old English hrōst

Sentence Examples

  • Parrots are gregarious and usually feed and roost in companies, but are at least temporarily monogamous.

  • They are unable to fly till nearly two years old, and continue for a considerable time after taking wing to roost and hunt with their parents.

  • On the same side of the Great Valley, south of the Potomac, are the Pinnacle (3007 ft.) and Pidgeon Roost (3400 ft.).

  • The tidal currents, or races, or roost (as some of them are called locally, from the Icelandic) off many of the isles run with enormous velocity, and whirlpools are of frequent occurrence, and strong enough at times to prove a source of danger to small craft.

  • A considerable deficit, of about £16,000,000, was in prospect, and the chancellor of the exchequer aroused misgivings by alluding in a speech to the difficulty he had in deciding what "hen roost" to "rob."

More sentences →

Also Mentioned In

Words near roost in the Dictionary