rooster

CEFRB1

/ˈɹuːstə/

noun

Türkçe translations

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In plain English

  1. 01

    noun

    An adult male chicken.

  2. 02

    noun

    Extra detail

    A bird or bat which roosts or is roosting.

Examples

  • It is the hen that makes the rooster crow.

  • Yesterday I went to Denizli and I saw a rooster near the coop.

At a glance

Sits at B1 on the CEFR scale

Senses
5
Parts of speech
1
Citations
5
Synonyms
5

Also pronounced

  • /ˈɹustəɹ/

Deep Dive

noun

Extra meanings

  1. An informer.

  2. A male domestic chicken (Gallus gallus domesticus) or other gallinaceous bird.

  3. A powerful, prideful, or pompous person.

More examples

In context

  • The produce of two hens and a cock, or rooster, as the Yankees term that bird.

  • Their other dish […] contain'd a number of roast fowls—half a dozen, we suppose, & all roosters at this season no doubt.

  • The more leisured flight of the roosters [sc. starlings] was in contrast to the steady procession of the migrants.

Synonyms

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Every morning at sunrise, the loud blank crows and wakes up the farm.

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Origin

noun

From roost + -er. In the regions where it is used, displaced cock through taboo avoidance. Compare typologically Russian насе́дка (nasédka) (akin to наси́живать (nasíživatʹ), also akin to насе́ст (nasést)).