roost

English

From Middle English roste (“chicken's roost; perch”), from Old English hrōst (“wooden framework of a roof; roost”), from Proto-Germanic *hrōstaz (“wooden framework; grill”); see *raustijaną.

Cognate with Dutch roest (“roost”), German Low German Rust (“roost”), German Rost (“grate; gridiron; grill”).

roost (plural roosts)

The place where a bird sleeps (usually its nest or a branch).
- 1700, [John] Dryden, “The Cock and the Fox: Or, The Tale of the Nun’s Priest, from Chaucer”, in Fables Ancient and Modern; […], London: […] Jacob Tonson, […], →OCLC:
  
  He clapp'd his wings upon his roost.
A group of birds roosting together.
A bedroom
(Scotland) The inner roof of a cottage.

place for sleeping birds

roost (third-person singular simple present roosts, present participle roosting, simple past and past participle roosted)

(intransitive, of birds or bats) To settle on a perch in order to sleep or rest
(figurative) to spend the night
- 2019 November 21, Samanth Subramanian, “How our home delivery habit reshaped the world”, in The Guardian‎^[1]:
  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.

roost (plural roosts)

roost (third-person singular simple present roosts, present participle roosting, simple past and past participle roosted)

roost m (genitive singular roost, plural roostyn)

roost (verbal noun roostey, past participle rooisht)

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