ENGLISH DICTIONARY

Owlery

Definition, Meaning & Examples

Part of speech noun

Quick meaning: Owlery is a noun meaning (zoology) An abode of owls.

Meaning

(zoology) An abode of owls.

More Meanings

  1. A pen or enclosure for owls.

Example Sentences

Or perhaps there is now no heroic wisdom left in England; England, once the land of heroes, is itself sunk now to a dim owlery, and habitation of doleful creatures, intent only on money-making and other forms of catching mice, for whom the proper gospel is the gospel of M‘Croudy, and all nobler impulses and insights are forbidden henceforth?

Word Forms

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Related dictionary entries include oule, ayry, owlism, aiery, oryall, ovarium.

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