Definitions for rookery

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rookery rook·er·y

Spelling: [roo k-uh-ree]

IPA: /ˈrʊk ə ri/

Rookery is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 14 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 13 points.

You can make 64 anagrams from letters in rookery (ekoorry).

Definitions for rookery

noun

1. a breeding place or colony of gregarious birds or animals, as penguins and seals.
2. a colony of rooks.
3. a place where rooks congregate to breed.
4. a crowded tenement house.

Origin of rookery

First recorded in 1715-25; rook¹ + -ery

Examples for rookery

I never saw a man do it, unless he was burned out of his rookery.

If ever you write a novel, Miss Manvers, mind you have a rookery in it.

The stream of birds from the rookery was flying in the same direction.

The polished wood-paneled rookery Hotel calls itself “Soho in the East” and frankly, that undersells it.

I called a hackman, for my reading taught me what to do, and I told him to drive me to the rookery.

Before that, rookery after rookery had been visited and every seal butchered.

After lunch they all went off to the rookery, which was at the other side of the park from Gar Wood.

Our rookery was in the middle swamp a day inland from Talimeco, safe and secret.

Navigators have agreed in calling an assemblage of such encampments a rookery.

The proximity of a rookery does not affect all people alike.