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Word entry · 5 letters

roost

Best crossword clue

"Bird resting place"

5 letters · collected on this word page

5 lettersPronunciation /ɹuːst/Part of speech verb, nounSorted oorstStarts with REnds with T1 cluesCommon crossword word
1R2O3O4S5T

Definitions

  1. settle down or stay, as if on a roost

Word origin

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

Used in a sentence

  • He clapp'd his wings upon his roost.
  • 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.

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