Definitions for Roost

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IPA: /rust/

Roost is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 5 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 5 points.

You can make 48 anagrams from letters in Roost (oorst).

Definitions for Roost

noun

1. a perch upon which birds or fowls rest at night.
2. a large cage, house, or place for fowls or birds to roost in.
3. a place for sitting, resting, or lodging.

Idioms

1. come home to roost, (of an action) to revert or react unfavorably to the doer; boomerang:
2. rule the roost, to be in charge or control; dominate:

verb (used without object)

1. to sit or rest on a roost, perch, etc.
2. to settle or stay, especially for the night.

Origin of Roost

before 1100; Middle English roost (noun), Old English hrōst; cognate with Middle Dutch roest

Examples for Roost

Now roost on the transom, over there in the corner, Stryker, and don't move.

Yet, today, it hardly more than affords me room to roost on.

“All the chickens are coming home to roost,” said opposition leader Antonio Di Pietro.

When you win, it's a big party and the lottery sends out the invitations and all the chickens come home to roost.

And force is a crime in the eyes of the fools, the weak and the silly who rule the roost.

But now the chickens are coming back home to America to roost.

The kittens slept in the nest, and the chickens on the roost.

Curses have, as the wise man said, a habit of coming home to roost.

As House Majority Leader, DeLay ruled his roost with an iron fist that makes Nancy Pelosi look like Mary Poppins.

And past traumas and tribulations come home to roost for one reason only: so you can finally release them.