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/ˈɹuːstə/ · noun
(Canada, US, Kent, Australia, New Zealand) A male domestic chicken (Gallus gallus domesticus) or other gallinaceous bird..
Their other dish […] contain'd a number of roast fowls—half a dozen, we suppose, & all roosters at this season no doubt.
The produce of two hens and a cock, or rooster, as the Yankees term that bird.
Chalk a circle for a rooster.
The more leisured flight of the roosters [sc. starlings] was in contrast to the steady procession of the migrants.
Ground roosters like Northern Harriers may be subject to predation by Great-horned Owls […] but still larger perchers like herons and Ospreys use snags or posts in conspicuous places but are large enough to escape aerial predators.
In April they played Hens and Roosters, yoking their wild white and blue violets to see which would get its head pulled off.
American demoralisation... has carried rooster into the halls of republican legislation, where it indicates a bill or proposed law which will remunerate the legislators.
Use rooster when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Rooster means (Canada, US, Kent, Australia, New Zealand) A male domestic chicken (Gallus gallus domesticus) or other gallinaceous bird..
Common synonyms include cock, informant, brawler, important person.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
Their other dish […] contain'd a number of roast fowls—half a dozen, we suppose, & all roosters at this season no doubt.
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