roost
roost Lexical Profile
roost Game Scores & Validity
• noun
A branch, perch, or structure where birds or bats regularly settle or congregate to rest or sleep.
"The chickens returned to their wooden roost inside the coop just before sunset."
A large group of birds or bats resting together in one place.
"The biologist quietly observed a winter roost of thousands of starlings in the reed bed."
• verb
To settle, perch, or congregate for rest or sleep (especially of birds or bats).
"Hundreds of crows gather to roost in the tall elm trees every evening."
To stay, lodge, or pass the night at a particular place (used informally of a person).
"With the storm raging outside, the hikers decided to roost in the mountain cabin until morning."
• Rhymes for roost
Word Origin & Etymology
From Old English hrōst, meaning a wooden framework of a roof or a perch for domestic fowls, derived from Proto-Germanic *hrōstaz.