roost

CEFRB2

/ɹuːst/

noun · verb

Türkçe translations

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In plain English

  1. 01

    noun

    A place where birds rest or sleep.

  2. 02

    verb

    To sit or sleep in a high place, like a bird.

Examples

  • At home it is Liisa who rules the roost.

  • Curses, like chickens, come home to roost.

At a glance

Sits at B2 on the CEFR scale

Senses
5
Parts of speech
2
Citations
3
Synonyms
1

Also pronounced

  • /ɹust/
  • /ɹʉst/

Deep Dive

noun

Extra meanings

  1. A bedroom.

  2. A group of birds roosting together.

  3. The place where a bird sleeps (usually its nest or a branch).

More examples

In context

  • He clapp'd his wings upon his roost.

  • The UPS package centre for central London, a brief walk from Kentish Town tube station, holds a below-ground bay in which 170 vans roost every night.

Synonyms

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Origin

noun

From Middle English roste (“chicken's roost; perch”), from Old English hrōst (“wooden framework of a roof; roost”), from Proto-West Germanic *hrōst, from Proto-Germanic *hrōstaz (“wooden framework; grill”); see *raustijan. Cognate with Dutch roest (“roost”), German Low German Rust (“roost”), German Rost (“grate; gridiron; grill”).