ROOST
What does "ROOST" mean?
A perch or place where birds settle to rest or sleep.
Meanings
- A branch, beam, or other support on which birds rest, especially at night. At dusk the hens climbed to their roost.
- To settle down to rest or sleep, as a bird. Crows roost in the elms by the hundreds.
- A place of rest or lodging; a position of dominance ('rule the roost'). In that office, the senior partner rules the roost. informal
Did you know?
- The idiom 'curses, like chickens, come home to roost' was used by poet Robert Southey as a motto for his 1810 poem 'The Curse of Kehama', tying the bird's nightly return to the idea of consequences.
Word origin
From Old English 'hrost' (perch, framework of a roof), of Germanic origin.
Remember it
ROOST and ROOF both start ROO- and sit up high: a roost is the bird's roof for the night.
A little poem
Dusk folds the long day-
one by one the birds drop home
to the same dark branch.
haiku
Wordplay
- The bossy hen said she ruled the roost - then the rooster reminded her whose perch it actually was.
What it teaches
Everything you set loose finds its way back to where it started - choose carefully what you send out at dawn.
Quick facts
What does ROOST mean?
A perch or place where birds settle to rest or sleep.
Is ROOST a valid word?
Yes — ROOST is one of the answer words in Wordul, the daily word game.
How many letters is ROOST?
ROOST has 5 letters and 1 syllable.
Where does ROOST come from?
From Old English 'hrost' (perch, framework of a roof), of Germanic origin.
What can ROOST teach us?
Everything you set loose finds its way back to where it started - choose carefully what you send out at dawn.
How players do
Be the first to solve it.