Meaning

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

Definitions by Sense

1. The place where a bird sleeps (usually its nest or a branch).
2. A group of birds roosting together.
3. A bedroom.
4. (Scotland) The open cross-joists or inner roof of a cottage or living space.
5. (Australian rules football) A kick which causes the ball to travel a long distance.
6. Synonym of perch (“a position that is secure and advantageous”).
7. (intransitive, of birds or bats) To settle on a perch in order to sleep or rest.
8. (figurative) To spend the night.

Example Sentences

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.

Sometimes the whole tract swung to one side, like the tail of a live serpent; sometimes, for a glimpse, it would all disappear and then boil up again. What it was I had no guess, which for the time increased my fear of it; but I now know it must have been the roost or tide race, which had carried me away so fast and tumbled me about so cruelly, and at last, as if tired of that play, had flung out me and the spare yard upon its landward margin.

Word Forms

• roosts
• roosting
• roosted

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When Should You Use Roost?

Use roost when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.

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